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Edmonton's housing momentum didn't stop at the end of 2025.
Q1 2026 data is in and Edmonton is on track for another strong year of homebuilding in the places people want to live. The rowhome revolution continues. 🧵
#yeg #yegcc #yimby
jacobdawang.com/blog/2026/q1-building-permits/
I think @naheednenshi.bsky.social should give us a detailed video explaining the intricacies of the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem #geography
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modifia...
I am the average American swing voter. I have not made up my mind which candidate will make it cheaper to idle in the drive through.
Correspondence from The People’s Anti-Vaccination and Medical Freedom League of B.C., 1920
A simple message on #WorldHealthDay: history shows that vaccines work.
In this blog, we examine anti-vaccination propaganda from 1920: thediscoverblog.com/2021/05/31/a...
Reading historical anti-vaccine propaganda with a critical eye can help “inoculate” against #Disinformation today.
Calgarians have spoken! (Well, 411 of them.)
Here's what we have to say about the public hearing on repealing rezoning.
imagining deploying this on Deerfoot Trail so that I can take a leisurely stroll across eight lanes of traffic
Alberta separatism isn’t motivated by equalization policies, Senate seats, carbon taxes or oil. These tired complaints may ride shotgun on independence, but bigotry drives the truck.
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
anyhow the city needs $49B in infrastructure but we're going to downzone so only millionaires can afford homes in most of the city. enjoy your commute
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
now we get less municipal services but get to fund the UCP's mismanagement of education at the same time!
that's what we call win/win
the funniest thing about Farkas doing a whole song and dance about keeping the municipal tax increase low (at 1.6%) is that the UCP decided to just fill the room and throw an extra 6.5% in education property tax on top of that.
calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
The Universal Law Of Cities — The more car-friendly a place is, the shittier it is to be there.
Via #NotJustBikes. Watch his new video below.
To see and experience the broad spectrum that transness presents is to see what is possible for ourselves. Witnessing that in practice benefits everyone.
Trans people present the possibility of a better life. And that extends beyond literal transness.
xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
Sure! "Cyclists have a right to the road, too, you noisy, polluting, inconsiderate maniacs! I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!"
$8 a gallon for gas???
That's right
Making generational changes to things like planning and development can be politically costly, no matter how much sense it might make, writes Courtney Walcott, in his latest column for LWC. #yyc #calgary #yyccc
part of politics is simply deciding that your opponents are stupid, selfish and wrong and must be defeated for the greater good of society. no need to compromise or hold their hand.
The immediate status quo, centrist attacks on Avi Lewis are precisely why he is effective and needed.
In face of growing right wing escalation, an unbashadely left opposition that is anti capitalist & internationalist is both principled *and* realistic.
cornering the unprincipled coward vote ✅
Carla Beck / Jeremy Nolais also not being helpful
off to a good start
waiting for the Notleyite meltdown
Location Population Ridings Average population per riding Variance from provincial average population Calgary 1578616 28 56379 2.6% Edmonton 1218856 21 58041 5.7% Rest of Alberta 2091251 40 52281 -4.8% Total 4888723 89 54929 0.0%
Alberta's new electoral boundary recommendations would see the two biggest cities have less representation in the legislature, per person, compared to the provincial average:
Edmonton: 5.7% more people per MLA
Calgary: 2.6% more people per MLA
Rest of Alberta: 4.8% fewer people per MLA
Funny to think that some places responded to the 1970s oil crisis by supporting alternatives to driving.
While others decided that they’re not going to allow pesky things like “red lights” or “pedestrians” slow drivers down and waste precious gas.
Yikes
on a packed ctrain delayed by 40 minutes in the middle of rush hour but really thankful that @jeromyyyc.bsky.social kept the property tax increase to merely 1.6%
#worthit
we are mere days away from "building pipelines is feminism and voting for avi lewis is brocialism"
the only way Shannon Phillips and Lou Arab would recognize a social-democratic project is if a pipeline runs through it
the Cathy Spoule email and the Shannon Phillips faux-victim video have been the most disgusting parts of the Heather McPherson leadership campaign and the NDP leadership race generally
The new North Hill co-op rocks!!
