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Shirley and Don Begg appeared on our first print cover in July 2023. Now their daughter Karen Begg opens the first cover of The Local's new website.

So much more is launching soon.

Our first website cover Our first cover story
July 2023 The Local cover, Shirley and Don Begg of Cochrane: everything about us is about our art. The Local web cover: Karen Begg, sculptor, community organizer and rock-and-roll road-tripper, presented by IRIS Cochrane. November 2026
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LOCAL AREA EXPLORER

Get to know your corner.

The Neustaedter family in their kitchen under the title The Family Man behind the Family Business.
Madi and Patrick Gergen with their seven adult children and two dogs on the front steps of their Springbank home.
Don and Shirley Begg in their Studio West gallery, Shirley seated on a bench beside bronze children reading.
Jo-Anne Oucharek sitting by a still lake at golden hour, holding a camera with a long camouflage-wrapped lens.
Corinne Sato in her black and gold rugby jersey and a tiara, giving two thumbs up.
Arif Maherali and his youngest daughter jump up for a high five on a putting green.
Tanis Larson laughing as her husband Dave hugs her from behind on a pink set.
Kailey Mitchell smiling cheek to cheek with her small, fluffy dog in front of a white door.
Laura Tobin doing a pull-up in a gym, seen from behind, in a grey sports top and patterned shorts.
Sheri Filuk taking a selfie by the water at sunset, wearing a teal and white cap that reads Free in the Sea.
Ian scuba diving in a black wetsuit and mask, making a shaka sign with both hands underwater.
Marni Fedeyko, with red hair and a black blazer, smiling outdoors in front of softly blurred trees.
Cheryl Jessamine hanging upside down from a zipline above a green forest canopy, wearing a white helmet.
Roger Pilkington writing on a chalkboard inside a heritage schoolhouse, with the alphabet across the top of the board.
Teanna Matchett hanging upside down in teal aerial silks in a sunlit studio, smiling at the camera.
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Market activity
What these numbers mean
  • Homes: households living here. From the 2021 Census, which Statistics Canada refreshes every five years (next count: 2026).
  • Resident snapshot (population, age mix, household size, own vs rent, families with kids, when the area was built): the City of Calgary's 2021 community profile, which redistributes the federal census to each community's boundary. Refreshes every five years.
  • Median income: midpoint household income, so half earn more and half less (2020 income year, 2021 Census).
  • Typical detached home: the benchmark price of a standard single-family house (CREB). It's the industry's "typical home," not any one listing. Updated monthly.
  • Housing mix: the share that are houses vs condos & townhomes. It explains the value: more condos pulls the all-in average down, which is why we show a typical detached house on its own.
  • Market: how fast homes sell and the year-over-year price trend (CREB).
  • Compared with Calgary: the "above / below Calgary" tags measure this community against the Calgary-wide median income and detached-home benchmark. "About" marks a rounded figure rather than an exact one.
All figures are area-wide. We never show individual home sales. Sources & methodology →
Aggregate data only. No individual home sales. Data sources & methodology →