Sentences with phrase «oil patch much»

Considered the blue collar city of Alberta's oil patch much of the wealth comes from tradespeople that work in the oil sands.

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If you want to fit in to that Calgary neighbourhood it helps if you're married, voted conservative, earn more than a half million annually and have a taste for champagne — the denizens there drink more than twice as much bubbly than the national average (no doubt toasting their good luck to be part of the oil patch).
Much of this contraction is due to the sharp pullback in investment in the oil patch, now expected to decline by 40 per cent over the course of the year.
It's not too much of an exaggeration to say the 2012 budget was inspired by, and might as well have been written by, Ethical Oil, the oil - patch advocacy group inspired by an Ezra Levant book, and by Vivian Krause, a British Columbia blogger who spins tales of foreign meddling in Canada's mineral wealOil, the oil - patch advocacy group inspired by an Ezra Levant book, and by Vivian Krause, a British Columbia blogger who spins tales of foreign meddling in Canada's mineral wealoil - patch advocacy group inspired by an Ezra Levant book, and by Vivian Krause, a British Columbia blogger who spins tales of foreign meddling in Canada's mineral wealth.
Considered the blue collar city of Alberta's oil patch, much of the wealth comes from tradespeople who work in the oil sands.
Energy represents about a fifth of Canada's market cap and earnings growth is very much tied to fortunes in the oil patch (nearly half of the expected 22 % earnings growth for the S&P / TSX Composite Index in 2017 flows from the energy sector, we calculate).
But the profit takers were not out in the oil patch, as oil prices and the underlying equities, continued to rally for much of the day.
Considered the blue collar city of Alberta's oil patch, much of the wealth comes from tradespeople who work in the oil sands.
Much of her work features distorted flesh, high - caliber brush strokes, and patches of oil color.
The campaign, «much of which will be coordinated by the PR firm Edelman, will include expensive television, radio, and print ads, tours of oil patch facilities for lawmakers and opinion elites, and financial contributions to sympathetic think tanks and industry - friendly organizations.»
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