(AlbertaIndex, June 28, Thursday) --- Canada’s economy will grow by a “solid” 2.6% this year and 2.9% in 2008, said RBC. This year’s performance owes much to the “robust” start in the early months of 2007.

            (AlbertaIndex, June 28, Thursday) --- Homelessness has grown into a $4.5 billion a year problem for Canadian taxpayers, said The Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership. In 2005, up to 300,000 Canadians or nearly one percent of the country’s population were homeless while children accounted for nearly one in seven users of emergency shelters. 

            (AlbertaIndex, June 27, Wednesday) --- The Alberta government is inviting contractors to bid on the construction of a new overpass as part of a bypass to free up traffic congestion in Grand Prairie city.