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Western Canadian office vacancy rates to hit 20-year high: report

By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) – Sliding commodity prices and record levels of office construction could drive Western Canadian downtown vacancy rates to a two-decade high, one of the world’s biggest commercial real estate services firms has forecast. Despite growth in the high-tech sector, weaker demand from resource and energy companies is boosting vacancy rates in Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton to levels unseen since Canada’s economic slowdown of the early