With good quotes from @serene.pixeltree.ca.
Calgary City Council now has ~ 12 weeks to come up with a replacement. None have spoken articulately on potential solutions or the reception of those solutions by the full plurality of Calgarians.
Lots of talk for over a year. Less talk, more do. 1/
An excerpt from “Freedom: How We Lose It and How We Fight Back” by Nathan Law. Replace Hong Kong with Alberta and the paragraph still works. #abpoli #ableg
For the evening crowd.
What you get is a Harper-era fiscal and ideological architecture, executed with more subtlety and more plausible deniability, and on a trajectory that takes the women’s state below where Harper left it.
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Governments that have to pick their voters to remain in power are not legitimate governments worthy of being called democratic. Politicians choosing their voters is about as undemocratic as it gets.
There is a reason that we do not have MLAs decide on electoral boundaries. Tossing out the Electoral Boundaries Commission and replacing it with a UCP-dominated committee is not just a bad idea. It is really bad for democracy. Ask the US, ask Hungary. This is not normal!
It is not the increase from 89 to 91 that is problematic. It is this part of the motion. Throwing out the Electoral Boundaries Commission (and all of their work) and instead creating a new committee of MLAs with a new advisory panel.
I’ve read, commmissioned or been part of many studies like this one, and the results are ALWAYS the same — low density suburban development is incredibly expensive for everyone, and doesn’t come close to paying its own way. It needs to be heavily subsidized by denser, mixed-use areas.
Sound fair?
I am going to need a moment while revisionist economic history tells me Stephen Harper saved us from the 2008 financial crisis … and not post depression bank policy and post 2006 cdn economists begging for intervention but what do I, I signatory to latter letter, know
It's remarkable how most of the world's English-speaking democracies seemed to have gotten together and decided "let's destroy the main thing that led us to unprecedented prosperity: our systems of higher education."
Is it strategic? what does it mean for elections? what would have happened if he had done Y instead?
What I can say for sure and what I am commenting on is that its systematic dismantling of climate policy that would reduce emissions by the government in power.
This is why housing advocacy is driven largely by people who just want to be able to ride their bikes & get places on the bus. Once you start looking for ways to make transportation better, you realize that it's land use holding us back.
And then you start spending all your free time at city hall.
This would have been my local library branch. Walkable and bikeable. And while I am sad about its disappearance, I had fun digging into this bit of local Calgary history! #yycbike #yyccc
The boogeyman anecdotes of wokeism by teachers in math questions was… something
Okay CTA. This is a good sign.
Hans Zimmer is a transphobe. A tweet reads "I worked for him. I did good work that he praised, but after transitioned he quickly had me fired. He had cue notes named "tr*nnv fight"' etc etc... It's a pattern of abuse that will inevitably come out over time, and I'm glad that the industry is changing slowly."
I regret to inform y'all that Hans Zimmer fuckin sucks.
Who wasn’t heard at the public hearing on citywide rezoning? Turns out there’s data for that.
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... And there were two more last night that were NOT reported in the open dataset...
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Well... we've completed the FA stage. When does FO land? #yyccc
So far, I'm seeing a catastrophic failure in leadership at city hall. #Housing
Repeal of the 2024 changes to zoning — and returning to 60%+ of my city being single family homes and *only* single family homes is horrifying.
Banning building homes is not a strategy, #yyccc. #yyc
The promise Mayor Farkas and team made to Calgarians on the campaign trail was repeal and replace. And no repeal before a replacement plan was determined. This is a promise made but not kept. #yyccc #yyc
“I’ve never seen an investigation completed within a year of the commission of an offence. It would be extremely difficult to imagine an acceptable rationale for such a short time period. Twelve months from the commission of an offence – it’s almost unimaginable to think that it can be done.”
Education property taxes are in the news, so here are some charts. Calgary now provides ~35% of the provincial share of property taxes collected for education.
Across the board, Albertans have seen 3 years of big increases to their taxes after a period of flat and even declining tax collection.
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How many thousands of people are gonna get charged $70 a month because they didn't read to the third paragraph of this fucking email
Even setting aside the implicit false equivalence of having a single shade of red and blue, the fact that Portnoy/Barstool and Russia Today are classified as neutral makes me think the median sentiment is to the right of Strom Thurmond.
There's something a bit poignant about a Bluetooth device failing to connect to another device right next to it when they're the only Bluetooth devices for hundreds of thousands of kilometres around.
"Communities should have a voice. But the current allocation of power allows a narrow set of residents to impose very large costs on outsiders: younger households, renters, immigrants, employers, would-be residents and the wider provincial and national economies."
not to downplay the severity of what's cominb but the entire fall campaign of just executing boats full of civilians in the caribbean was a screaming klaxon that illegality of the order is no obstacle for Hegseth's Department of Warcrimes
PSA for Canadians trying to do the math on EV « fuel » costs:
Take your per kWh electricity cost and *double* it. That’s your « effective gas price » in $/L
Eg. $0.15/kWh = $0.30/L effective gas price
Compare to this in Vancouver right now… Yup, ICE currently 7x the cost.
