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    CBC

    Kings Playhouse reducing its hours — and staffing — to focus on events

    One of the oldest theatrical venues in P.E.I. is reducing its hours and staffing to focus solely on hosting events like concerts, plays, weddings and meetings.The Kings Playhouse in Georgetown announced the change in a post on its Facebook page in late April. The building itself is owned by the Town of Three Rivers, but operational decisions are made by a volunteer board of directors, which is made up of seven people."We've done this to sort of balance our ability to manage people, time and even

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    Yahoo Finance Canada

    What the changes to the Home Buyers' Plan mean for prospective buyers

    One expert says the changes to the Home Buyers' Plan will be 'marginal at best' for first-time homebuyers.

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    CBC

    More people are working in Calgary than ever, and yet the unemployment rate is on the rise

    The huge influx of newcomers to Alberta has helped drive the job market in Calgary into strange territory, with the city seeing record levels of employment and surging levels of unemployment at the same time. The unemployment rate shot up to 6.5 per cent in March, up 0.4 percentage points from the month before. The increase was driven not by a loss of jobs but rather the sheer growth in people looking for work.An estimated 64,500 people in the Calgary metropolitan area were looking for work, acc