Canada’s Productivity Super Deduction: What It Means
Canada just made its biggest capital-investment tax change in a generation — and most companies evaluating a manufacturing or industrial footprint in North America haven’t fully priced it into their numbers yet. On September 15, 2026, the federal government expanded the Productivity Super Deduction introduced in Budget 2025 into what officials are now calling the..
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Alberta Continuing Care Capital Cost: What $365,000 Per Space Tells Developers
Alberta has, for the first time in this cycle, put a public number on what it costs the province to add a continuing care bed. The Alberta continuing care capital cost implied by the April 2026 funding round is roughly $365,000 per space. Almost everyone in the sector read that announcement as health policy. It..
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Alberta Industrial Real Estate vs BC: The 2026 Numbers
Alberta Industrial Real Estate vs British Columbia: Where the Advantage Actually Flips in 2026 British Columbia sells industrial power at roughly half Alberta’s price. Alberta leases industrial space at roughly half British Columbia’s price. Both statements are true, both are quoted selectively, and neither one decides anything on its own. This article works through the..
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Alberta Construction Costs 2026: The Costly Escalation Mistake
Alberta construction costs rose 4.12% in Calgary this year. In British Columbia, private sector costs fell 3 to 5%. Same country, same year, same tariffs. Canadian construction costs split in two directions in 2026, and the split runs almost exactly along the line separating markets with work from markets without it. Altus Group put it..
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Development Charges by City: The Full Canadian Ranking
About $1,600 at one end. About $134,400 at the other. Those are municipal charges on a single high-rise unit, across the 23 municipalities the Canadian Home Builders’ Association benchmarked with Altus Group. Development charges by city is not a marginal line in a Canadian pro forma. It is frequently the largest single variable in it,..
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Calgary vs Edmonton Building Permits: The $128,000 Gap
The number nobody publishes The average Calgary building permit was worth $476,000 last year. In Edmonton, $348,000. Three hours up Highway 2. That figure is not published anywhere. It comes from dividing two numbers that are: total permit value, and permit count. Calgary recorded $7.4 billion across 15,559 permits in 2025. Edmonton recorded $4.9 billion..
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Development Charges in Alberta: The $57,000 Calgary Gap
$93,000 in Calgary. $36,000 in Edmonton. Same province. Same building code. Same labour market. Three hundred kilometres apart. And that figure is not the cost of building the house — it is the municipal fee for permission to build it. The gap is $57,000 per unit. Development charges in Alberta differ that sharply between its..
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Alberta Business Insolvencies Rose 35.6%. The Rest of Canada Went the Other Way.
Business insolvencies across Canada fell 9.7% over the twelve months to 30 June 2026. In Alberta, they rose. That divergence is the single most useful thing in the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy’s second-quarter release, and it is almost entirely absent from the coverage — because the national headline reads like a recovery, and..
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Calgary Suburbs Growth: Where the Region Is Really Expanding
Calgary just posted the fastest population growth of any major metro area in Canada — but the most important part of that story isn’t happening inside the city. Calgary suburbs growth is quietly redrawing the map of the region, pulling tens of thousands of new residents into the collar towns of Airdrie, Cochrane, Okotoks and..
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Edmonton vs Calgary Real Estate: The $186K Gap in 2026
$669,519 vs $483,600. That’s the average home price in Calgary vs Edmonton this June — a $186,000 gap inside the same province. Two days ago I posted that Edmonton had overtaken Calgary in interprovincial migration. The obvious next question: what is that doing to the two housing markets? The answer isn’t what the price tags..
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