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Affordability issues and more restrictive immigration laws have forced a Canmore boutique and gift store to close its doors next month and move its operations online. "I guess in the end it doesn't really feel like it was my decision at all," said Laura Bodell, owner of Alberta's Own Marketplace, which sells locally produced fine art, souvenirs, Indigenous blankets, bath and body items, men's grooming products, jewellery and apparel. Bodell has been searching for a manager since March. In the past six months, the store received only five applicants, all of whom weren't qualified for the job. "Even with my team having made over $30 an hour this summer, we were only getting high school student applicants," Bodell told Postmedia. "So heading into fall, that level of availability just can't keep us going. "Her team has shrunk to three staffers, most of whom are immigrants. One is from Ukraine and is trying to bring her husband to Canada. Bodell said the staffer has decided to move back to her country because Canada's stricter rules would not allow her husband to immigrate here.

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A group of Nova Scotians gathered on the waterfront in Halifax on Saturday with a message for Premier Tim Houston: allowing the construction of a large data centre will be detrimental to the environment and the community. “These companies don’t have a lot of information that they’re able to give us, we don’t know what this is gonna look like, we already have wells that are drying up in the summertime. I don’t think we can afford to do this,” Megan Boudreau, one of the protest organizers, told Global News. Energy and infrastructure company, EverWind, announced on Friday $10 billion in private investment in a data centre campus at its existing Point Tupper site. The site would be leased and run by AI development company Anthropic, the creator of the AI assistant Claude. “Canadians are using Claude in growing numbers, and we want our infrastructure to be closer to the people who rely on it,” said Jacob Glick, head of Canada Public Policy with Anthropic. Story continues below advertisement