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Exploring Career Opportunities in Calgary’s Thriving Homebuilding Industry 🏡 🏗️
Calgary’s housing market is not just growing; it’s thriving! And with this rapid growth comes an array of job opportunities in construction, real estate, and development.
If you’re a young individual or a new Canadian looking for a promising career path, the housing sector in Calgary could be your golden ticket.
Wide Range of Careers 🦺
Construction Experts:
We need framers, cribbers, plumbers, and electricians.
Management and Supervision:
Talented site supervisors and estimators.
Design and Planning:
Opportunities for those skilled in drafting and design.
Real Estate Professionals:
A vibrant market for sales and property managers.
Urban Development:
High demand for urban planners, architects, and engineers.
The city’s expansion plans are creating continuous demand in these areas.
Whether you’re starting your career journey or looking to switch paths, the housing sector in Calgary offers a robust platform to build your future.
Why Wait?
The industry is ripe with opportunities, and the time to act is now. If you have the skills, passion, or just the curiosity to explore these avenues, Calgary’s housing market is waiting for you.
Don’t let hesitation hold you back. Embrace the chance to be a part of a sector that’s not only shaping homes but also shaping futures.
Join the homebuilding industry in Calgary and build a career that’s as sturdy and promising as the homes you’ll help create.
What is holding you back?
Let me know in the comments below!
Take care,
Shane
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Perhaps Andrew Coyne should spend less time lecturing Albertans and more time understanding them. Dismissing their views as government-funded hysteria isn’t analysis. It’s arrogance masquerading as insight.
Canada already has a trade agreement and defence partnership with Europe. So what exactly are we gaining from this proposed EU associate membership, and what are we giving up in return?
More importantly, have the provinces even been consulted?
These are reasonable questions that deserve answers.
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Brad Carr makes some good points here, and as someone who’s spent decades in the homebuilding industry, I couldn’t agree more that temporary rebates aren’t the answer.
Governments at all three levels keep talking about housing affordability while adding to the cost of building homes. Taxes, levies, regulations and approval delays all come at a price, and ultimately the homebuyer pays.
Municipalities also need to take a serious look at their own spending and efficiencies, particularly with the growing costs of ageing infrastructure.
It’s time to stop announcing affordability programs and start looking at what’s making homes so expensive in the first place.
You can’t keep adding to the price of a home and then expect applause for offering a rebate.
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It should also be noted that Duncan was forced to pay $250,000 to @caylanford for defaming her. He’s just an awful person, in general.
STORY, updates to come: Edmonton former journalist Duncan Kinney has admitted to spray painting a bust of Ukrainian World War II leader Roman Shukhevych with the words "actual Nazi," then writing about it, claiming he didn't know who did it. edmontonjournal.com/news/cri…
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I read Michael Binnion’s piece, and I agree with him. Alberta has always been more than geography. It’s about independence, taking risks and creating opportunity rather than waiting for government to do it for you. Something Ottawa has never quite understood.
BINNION: Alberta is a state of mind westernstandard.news/opinion…
So now asking Albertans whether they want to remain in Confederation is a betrayal of Alberta and Canada? Give me a break.
The Globe and Mail is entitled to its opinion, but so are Albertans.
You don’t have to support separation to understand why the question is being asked. We’ve endured decades of federal interference, broken promises and policies that have worked against Alberta and it didn’t happen overnight.
And now we’re supposed to believe Carney’s announcements have somehow fixed all that? I’ll believe it when I see results.
I’ve said it before. I’m not necessarily advocating for separation, but I absolutely support Albertans having the right to decide.
If the case for remaining in Canada is so strong, then make it. Explain the benefits, address the grievances and let the people decide.
Calling the question itself a betrayal isn’t much of an argument at all.
That’s democracy. You don’t have to like the question to respect the right to ask it.
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To every American, and to everyone watching France burn from abroad:
Do not blame the French people for this.
We never asked for it. We never voted for it. And the one time we were clearly asked, we said no.
Here are the numbers your media won't show you.
70% of the French say there are too many immigrants in France today.
79% want a tougher immigration policy.
77% disapprove of the government's record on immigration.
83% want foreign criminals and long-term unemployed foreigners sent home.
And no, it's not just the old. 69% of French 18 to 24 year olds support suspending legal immigration for three years.
This is not a fringe. This is the French people.
In 2005, we were asked if we wanted the European Constitution. 55% voted no. Three years later, our politicians passed the same text under another name, through parliament, without ever asking us again.
That is modern France in one sentence. The people say no. The elites do it anyway.
So who is responsible? The politicians who lied to us. A class of leaders formed in the same schools, the same forums, the same networks, loyal to each other before they are loyal to their nations.
In 2017, at Harvard, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, bragged about his Young Global Leaders program in four words: "We penetrate the cabinets." He added that it was true in France. Emmanuel Macron was one of his Young Global Leaders.
It's the same project in Brussels with Ursula von der Leyen and in Paris with Macron. Borders treated as an obstacle. Nations treated as relics. The people treated as a problem to be managed.
What you are watching in France is not the French people failing. It is the end of the globalist project, an abject, quasi-communist dream of a world run by unelected planners. It is collapsing everywhere in Europe at once, and the West has to cut this cancer out before it takes the rest of the body with it.
The peoples of Europe don't want this. They never did.
So when you see our town halls burning, don't say "the French chose this."
The French never chose this.
They were forced into it.
If you're French and you agree, repost this so the world hears it from us.
If you're American, look at us carefully. Then choose differently on November 3rd.
I read Michael Binnion’s piece, and I agree with him. Alberta has always been more than geography. It’s about independence, taking risks and creating opportunity rather than waiting for government to do it for you. Something Ottawa has never quite understood.
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Tacking 'lol' onto an insult doesn't make it a joke. It just gives the writer a way out if anyone pushes back. The person on the other end still read every word. If you meant it, own it without the three letters.
Told you so last year
I’ll bet Canada won’t hit 500,000 housing starts by 2035, and if it does, it won’t be the housing we’re used to.
At Shane Homes, we’ve been using pre-fab for 15+ years. The real issue isn’t building methods, it’s government bloat, red tape, and ideological building codes driving costs up.
Cut that, and build times drop 30–40%. Homes become affordable again. #cdnpoli #housing #yyc
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Este vídeo es fantástico, demuestra toda la acción de inicio/reacción a disturbios.
Una detención pacífica escala en el momento en que la turba decide impedir el trabajo policial.
El chaval se envalentona y forcejea y, lo que hubiera acabado en una simple multa, obliga a un despliegue de fuerzas de control de masas que, de no hacer actuado con rapidez, hubiera producido el linchamiento de los policías.
La Policía no usa violencia gratuita ni a esa horda de salvajes se les puede considerar menores.
Esos "niños" han decidido jugar a la guerrilla antifa y ellos tan puesto las reglas. No vale llorar cuando te toca perder la partida.
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The Alberta Advantage was never a slogan. No provincial sales tax, energy we produce ourselves, and work waiting for anyone willing to do it. Effort turned into ownership here, for newcomers and lifers alike. Protect that and the paycheque does the rest. albertatribune.ca/the-provin…
Today a crowd forced it way in the doors of Marseille's city hall chanting that they were taking the Bastille. Look at what they are asking for. Higher wages, higher pensions and more public spending, in a country where government already spends more than half of everything the economy produces.
That is what decades of bigger government buys you. People are taught to expect everything from the state, and when the state can't deliver, they turn on it.
Canada is a little further back on that road, but we’re still on it. Pay attention.
Over the last two days I went on Fox News and Newsmax to warn Americans about what's happening in France. Today, the images speak for themselves.
October 17, 2026. In Marseille, France's second-largest city, a mob smashed through the doors of City Hall and stormed the lobby chanting "It's the revolution, we're taking the Bastille." Shortly before, rioters had trashed a municipal police station, breaking windows and throwing smoke bombs inside. Shops on the main avenue were vandalized and barricades were set on fire. In Paris, masked black bloc crews fired mortar fireworks at police at Place de la République while tear gas filled the square. There were 166 arrests nationwide by midday and more than 600 protests across the country, after weeks of blockaded high schools. The Yellow Vests are back.
Now here's what every American needs to understand. What are these people demanding? More: higher wages, higher pensions, more public spending, more state. That's in a country where the government already spends more than half of everything the economy produces.
This isn't an accident. It's where 45 years of socialism lead. Since 1981, left or right, every French government has grown the state. Macron is just the final, most polished version of the same system.
Socialism doesn't create prosperity. It creates dependency. When people rely on the state for everything, every disappointment turns into anger at the state. And the state cannot allocate capital. It doesn't risk its own money, and it never goes bankrupt when it's wrong. It just borrows more and taxes more. Productivity stalls, wages stagnate and prices rise. Then people take to the streets demanding even more state. The loop feeds itself until it breaks.
America, watch closely. If the Democrats fully embrace socialism, this is the trailer for what comes next. History is accelerating. It took France decades to get here. It won't take you nearly as long.
Vote for less government, never more.
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🇫🇷 | NOW IN FRANCE: Police launch violent crackdown as nationwide protests erupt across the country.
Our reporters in Paris are witnessing excessive use of police stun grenades, leaving multiple protesters injured.
The Alberta Advantage was never a slogan. No provincial sales tax, energy we produce ourselves, and work waiting for anyone willing to do it. Effort turned into ownership here, for newcomers and lifers alike. Protect that and the paycheque does the rest. albertatribune.ca/the-provin…
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I’m really tired of the endless chorus line of CBCNN panelists blaming AB Premier Danielle Smith for this referendum. Alberta is having a referendum because of a) Justin Trudeau and b) Laurentian Canada’s steadfast refusal to treat Alberta as a respected member of the Canadian family. Period.
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Our service and warranty team took over lunch today.
From the day a family gets the keys, service is who they call, so the rest of the Shane Homes team needed to hear how that work really goes.
Customers have changed in the last few years, and we have a lot more to teach them about their homes than we used to. Furnace filters get changed every month. When one cabinet door takes stain differently than its neighbour, the wood is doing what wood does.
It's education and understanding early in the service period.
Granted, this old Shane Homes ad from 1994 needed a little help from AI to bring it back to life, but here it is.
A 1,952 sq. ft. two-storey starting at $140,000. A 1,409 sq. ft. bungalow starting at $110,000. And a 1,356 sq. ft. bilevel starting at $145,000.
Those prices did not include the lot, which averaged about $59,900, or GST.
Still, it is remarkable to look back more than 30 years and see how much has changed.
What I also notice is what hasn’t changed. Craftsmanship, choice, communities, and building homes around how families actually want to live.
Different prices. Different era. Same business. Same values.
Patriotic Millionaires is a small group of rich Canadians campaigning for higher taxes on the rich. One of their board members says she would welcome B.C.'s increase. Kim Moody shows who actually feels it, and it isn't her. If you want to help, write the cheque to a cause you believe in.
An ultra-wealthy British Columbian wrote in the Vancouver Sun this week that she "wholeheartedly" welcomes higher taxes, calling the B.C. NDP plan a tax she "won't even feel."
I’ve read pieces like this before from ultra-wealthy people who feel the need to chime in on tax policy. The reality: the idea is grossly misinformed.
But she's right on one count: she wouldn’t feel the increased tax burden.
By her own account, much of her wealth sits in financial assets, and she chooses when to turn them into income. In plain English: wealth held for growth isn't taxed until it's sold. And when it is, only half the gain is taxed.
A tax increase that starts at $190,405 of income barely touches someone in that position.
Who does it touch? The family doctor. The surgeon. The engineer. The entrepreneur still building something. The people who earn fully taxable income every year and take the risks that grow an economy.
Under the NDP plan, B.C.'s top combined marginal rate would jump to 57.5%. Anyone earning more than about $266,000 would face 55.5%, higher than the top rate in any other province in Canada.
Here's the irony. In an earlier piece, she explained that her family's wealth came from a startup sold to Twitter and a career in Silicon Valley. That's exactly the kind of risk-taking B.C. should want more of, and exactly the kind a 57.5% rate tells the next founder to pursue somewhere else.
If the author wants to pay more, nothing is stopping her. Both the B.C. government and the federal government are qualified donees under the Income Tax Act. Write the cheque to either one. You'll even get a donation receipt.
In other words, volunteer your own money. Don't encourage poorly thought-out taxation policy that will drive away the risk-takers and investment B.C. desperately needs.
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