Tuesday July 2, 2013 8:00 am – 3:00 pm Priddis Greens Golf & Country Club 1 Priddis Greens Drive

If you’re not attending Play with the Presidents, your competitors are. And if your competitors aren’t, you should be!

Play with the Presidents is the Chamber’s annual golf tournament, which brings together more than 50 of the city’s top CEOs and presidents, as well as 180 business leaders from Calgary’s top companies. It has been a staple of the business golfing calendar for more than a decade and remains a great way to gain valuable exposure to the who’s who of Calgary’s business community to build your network, meet new partners and clients and increase awareness of your business.

Tickets are still available. Get yours today.

If you’re interested in learning more about the sponsorship opportunities available for this event, please view the 2013 sponsorship brochure and contact membership@calgarychamber.com.

A short nine years ago, Calgary was in the spotlight across North America. It seemed like almost weekly we were winning some accolade – best place to do business; most cost effective city to do business; most reasonable real estate costs. You name it, we won it.

Fast forward to today. We are still winning great recognition but we have lost a lot of our competitive advantage. We now boast some of the most expensive downtown office space and parking rates in North America, some of the most costly labour in Canada, and increasingly expensive residential real estate and industrial land. In short, we are now a very expensive city to do business in. And it’s impacting our competitiveness.

Fortunately, there are a number of steps that can be taken to make sure Calgary remains a great city to do business.

Thursday June 20, 2013
11:30 am – 1:15 pm
Hotel Arts
119 12th Avenue SW

This event is almost sold out – purchase your ticket now to guarantee your spot.

Alberta is now in the process of revising its First Nations Consultation Policy, which sets the requirements for industry when working with an Aboriginal community to develop a natural resource project.

Over the last year, Alberta’s Minister of Aboriginal Relations Robin Campbell has been actively engaged with Aboriginal communities across the province visiting more than 30 First Nations and all eight Métis settlements. His focus has been on building relationships and working with First Nations and Metis communities to improve economic opportunities and seek feedback on the province’s revised consultation policy. Join us as Campbell provides a progress report on the province’s First Nations consultation policy.

Get your ticket for this important event in the Chamber’s Aboriginal-Business Connection Series 2. 

Everyone likes to save money. But they may not be aware of the opportunities they’re missing out on.

As a Calgary Chamber member, you can receive a discount on a number of services offered by Calgary Archives, a full-service document management company, specializing in the storage, retrieval, certified destruction, and imaging of sensitive paper and electronic documents, such as financial forms, legal documents, human resources documents, and medical records.

Learn how you can save 20 per cent on offsite document storage with Calgary Archives.

Agrium Inc. is a major retail supplier of agricultural products and services in North America, South America and Australia and a leading global wholesale producer and marketer of all major agricultural nutrients. The company is also a premier supplier of specialty fertilizers in North America through its advanced technologies business unit. Agrium’s strategy is to provide the crop inputs and services needed to feed a growing world. They are focused on maximizing shareholder returns by driving continuous improvements to their base businesses, pursuing value-added growth opportunities across the crop input value chain and returning capital to shareholders.

For more information, visit Agrium.com

Alberta received a strange honour last month – it was dubbed the natural disaster capital of Canada. Last year, 62 per cent of insurance losses from natural catastrophes in the country occurred here in Wild Rose Country – and it’s a growing trend.

Don Forgeron, CEO with the Insurance Bureau of Canada, recently came to the Calgary Chamber to speak about the growing risk severe weather poses to business and what companies can do to deal with the risks associated with increasing flash floods, wind storms and wildfires brought on by periods of extreme drought. 

Learn what your business needs to do to be prepared for the new era of extreme weather.

Calgary’s Bow tower raises expectations
The Bow, which is home to Encana and Cenovus, celebrated its official grand opening last week 

Suncor and union agree to raise worker wages
The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union and Suncor have ratified an agreement that will see wages for workers in the oil, natural gas and petrochemical sectors rise 10.5 per cent over three years

Spruce Meadows aims to spice up summer season
A number of changes and improvements at Spruce Meadows will greet fans, riders and sponsors this summer

Canadian crude output to rocket
In its annual oil forecast, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers said it expects Canada’s crude oil production to hit 6.7 million barrels per day by 2030, up from 3.2 million last year

Stampede to scan animal retinas to detect signs of distress
In an attempt to see eye-to-eye with animal rights activists, this year the Calgary Stampede will be looking into the eyes of its rodeo livestock welfare to measure the stress on its bucking animals