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Allison Dempster

Calgary
As seen in: CBRT-TV (Calgary, AB), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), CBBC-FM (Lethbridge, AB), CBKT-TV (Regina, SK), CBX-FM (Edmonton, AB), CBXL-FM (High Level, AB), WWLP-TV (Chicopee, MA), retefin.it
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How some are turning to motels and campgrounds for housing #finsubito #adessonews

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By Joel Dryden Verified, Allison Dempster
| retefin.it
Calgary A busy thoroughfare in northwest Calgary features a strip of low-cost hotels, motels and lodges. Signs along 16th Avenue N.W. advertise their features: cable TV, free local calls and coin-operated laundry. One announces “Microwave and fridge on request.” Now there’s something of a growing trend — guests renting by the month. Many owners in the Montgomery district aren’t keen to talk about monthly stay rates with reporters, but they do offer up some basic details.
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Life in a motel or a campground? For some, it's a stopgap measure amid a housing crisis

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By Joel Dryden Verified, Allison Dempster
| CBC Calgary Verified
A busy thoroughfare in northwest Calgary features a strip of low-cost hotels, motels and lodges. Signs along 16th Avenue N.W. advertise their features: cable TV, free local calls and coin-operated laundry. One announces "Microwave and fridge on request." Now there's something of a growing trend — guests renting by the month. Many owners in the Montgomery district aren't keen to talk about monthly stay rates with reporters, but they do offer up some basic details.
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Lougheed, Trudeau and the NEP's long shadow

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By Drew Anderson Verified, Allison Dempster
| Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Verified
Listen to The Notorious NEP: a special three-part podcast. Don Dickson can still remember walking into a car dealership in Calgary in 1974 to slap down what was then a small fortune in cash and buy a new car — a dark green LTD Landau, the sort of thing that would really catch the eye in a gritty '70s chase scene. He could afford it. Calgary was booming, people were pouring into the province to get their share of the black gold rush and Dickson was a newly minted real estate agent.
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