Tips for planting your favourite herbs with easy access

I realize I am a lazy cook. If a recipe calls for herbs I don't have I will change the recipe rather than run to the store. To simplify summer meals I plant my most loved herbs in pots and leave them on my back step for easy access. This works for gardeners with either estates or the tiniest stoop or balcony.

Calgarians can expect to see further growth to the city within the next five years according to the 2013-2017 Suburban Residential Growth report released May 14.

The five-year forecast anticipates a population increase of 118,600 residents and 50,600 additional housing units with approximately 94 per cent of the population and 77 per cent of the housing growth being captured in new suburban development.

"The real spirit of the suffrage movement is sympathy and interest in the other woman, and the desire to make the world a more homelike place to live in."

Inspiring words from the inspiring Nellie McClung whose Calgary home is being replicated at Heritage Park as the future home of the Famous Five Interpretive Centre.

The lakeside getaway. The mountain retreat. A home along the links. Whether your pastime pleasures involve boats, bicycles or birdies, the Calgary area has something to meet your wishes.

Sitting just a short drive away from the glorious Rocky Mountains and with an abundance of golf courses and lakes nearby, Calgary is perfectly positioned to take advantage of Southern Alberta's unique geographical advantages.

Calgary and Alberta seemed to have missed the memo on declining house starts in Canada.

Starts decreased across the country in March and April, but not in the Calgary area, where starts increased both months.

The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) reported 11,323 starts in the Calgary Census Metropolitan Area in April compared to 11,242 in March, a trend of sixmonth moving average of the monthly seasonally adjusted annual rates (SAAR) of total housing starts.

Bareland condo owners in Alberta will now have increased protection against large assessments to repair and maintain managed property, thanks to new legislation passed by the Alberta government.

The province's roughly 40,000 bareland condo owners had been left with uncertainty regarding special assessments, fees and maintenance following a Court of Queen's Bench decision. The decision determined the current Condominium Property Act does not give bareland condominium corporations the authority to collect fees or use reserve funds for expenses related to repairing and maintaining managed property.