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September 2008

Creating Maps with Rental Data

September 19, 2008 Cool Websites

This guest post was kindly contributed by QMan, a REIN member and educator. You’re sure to see more from him in the future. – Chris The Challenge One of the challenges I face is trying to identify the going rents for a given pocket of a particular community before we make our purchases to help [...]

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Chris Eats Words, Sends City of Edmonton a Cookie

September 19, 2008 Edmonton

Well, with my last post about interactive maps of Edmonton and Red Deer, I mentioned that I was unhappy with one of the websites. Also, I promised to send someone a cookie if the City of Edmonton popped up and said something about it. I was sure from my previous experience working at the City [...]

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Cowboys Herding Cats

September 19, 2008 Song of the Week

Happy Friday! I’m about to head off to spend the weekend on a houseboat with Megan and a half-dozen friends. My friend Jody Nimetz from SEO-Space won the trip in a contest but can’t use it, so he let me take it. I’m pretty excited. This week’s stock-market meltdown has been interesting to watch. I’ll [...]

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Interactive Maps of Edmonton and Red Deer

September 18, 2008 Cool Websites

Dean Leischer and Dan Eisenhauer posted a couple of links on REINspace that I thought I should share. The City of Red Deer posted an interactive map that’s worth checking out. It’s an interesting way to see zoning information and several other layers of relevant data. Dan Eisenhauer pointed out the City of Edmonton’s Maps [...]

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A Little Jack Johnson

September 12, 2008 Song of the Week

Hi Folks, Just a short post today, as I’ve gotta get back to work. Dad’s going to be in Kelowna and we’ve got lots of stuff to talk about, and I’m going to be busy with some ski patrol stuff as well. There will be much more in the next week, including a guest post [...]

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Alberta News Roundup, Sept 9-08

September 9, 2008 News

Here’s a roundup of the news over the last couple weeks. I’ve been busy with a couple other projects, but there’ll be more coming in the near future. Edmonton The Edmonton owners of two rental apartment buildings could face the highest fine ever imposed in the province for violating the Public Health Act. A new [...]

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Raul Midon and Google Chrome

September 5, 2008 Song of the Week

It’s been a fantastic week, and in a couple hours I’m flying to Edmonton and driving to Good Soil (in Saskatchewan) for Megan’s cousin’s wedding. The last week has been busy but I’ve been loving it. So much stuff that I’ll make a list: I went to the recruitment meeting for Ski Patrol at Big [...]

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