Parties change.
The 2026 Liberal Party is different from the 2015 one. (The policy/budget priorities are very different)
The 2026 Conservative Party is different from the 2015 one.
The CPC could’ve been in power had they not chased away the PC crowd and allowed the LPC to take their voters.
Anecdotally, I’ve met a couple planners in Calgary and they seem to want positive changes to enable more housing and other reforms. We see that with city admin usually bringing up changes like RCG blanket upzoning. It’s the politicians here that push back, not the planners afaik.
The city voted it down. That’s the trouble with going backwards in gentle density and saying we’ll make up for it with TOD. In the end we’ll get neither…
There are some, including local greenhouse grown produce I’ve seen in grocery stores. I guess it is mostly dairy, grains and meat locally.
How so? Is it due to the Coop’s that are pretty ingrained across the prairies? Or the different scale of farms?
Interesting! I wonder if that’s a replicable model for other jurisdictions to pursue.
But aren’t there still the big few grocery conglomerates in Ontario with a lot of market share and troubling anti-competitive practices (including restrictive land title clauses).
It’s because No Frills already exists and is a better niche.
But it would be nice to have competition rather than just oligopolies.
Not against French immersion but there is a lesser known flip side to it:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Tbf, it’s better than it becoming derelict and demolished.
My head canon is that this is a good adaptive for the time being until passenger rail service resumes again (however many years or decades away).
Casino Regina (former union station)
Interesting. I’ve never seen something like that in western Canada. Arrow signals are pretty much the standard.
I’ve never seen this in my life. Where is this located?
The time of day matters a lot too
Calgary’s CTrain has high ridership and is safe. But later at night, there is some of that disorder happening (to a lesser degree)
It impacts who is willing to ride the train at night (vs calling an uber) due to this perception / reality. I know this anecdotally
But what is a progressive?
Housing transcends a simple left/right political spectrum. It’s more dependant on age and homeownership status.
You can have pro-housing progressives and conservatives work together against NIMBY progressives and conservatives.
Doesn’t OneCity have a different focus and target electorate compared to Pete Fry / Greens?
Specifically on housing policy. Correct me if I’m wrong or mistaken.
Victoria is known for being a chill, retirement spot. Vancouver is a better comparison - a big hub of economic activity wherein bad housing policy and supply has resulted in people moving to cheaper places or weathering the expensive cost of living. Some neighbourhoods lean older due to this.
It’s a vocal minority. Still, it sucks and absolutely impacts our politics.
No. I’m sorry but this type of talk is extremely unhelpful even if it is just a joke.
From what I’ve seen, planners are mostly on the same page with housing, transit, and urbanism.
The job is to make the best case for it (ex: housing reforms in Calgary and Edmonton) but to ultimately follow whatever council directs you to do (council wanting to reverse it now despite warnings).
I think I’ve seen a couple in Calgary but the frequency of hail and freeze/thaw cycles could make it be less practical long term?
Edmonton does have a downtown tunnel. Calgary was/is planned to have one.
That doesn't make Edmonton's LRT a subway. It still uses light rail vehicles instead of subway/metro vehicles. It also still runs in mixed environments, not fully grade separated all the time.
Both Calgary and Edmonton have successful LRT systems that act as the rapid transit backbone of each city.
Idk if it would be accurate to call them metros. They’re just good LRTs that make use of the flexibility of that comes with it.
It is an inevitability.
Not providing a subsidy is not the same as a penalty.
side note: I personally would prefer a weight tax to replace the gas/EV tax since imo it’s more fair and provides better incentives.
It’s not a penalty. It’s the EV equivalent to the gas tax
NEW: Global News has learned the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation has paused $129M in federal Housing Accelerator Fund money to the City of Calgary pending further clarity on citywide rezoning.
globalnews.ca/news/1154274...
Ah well I’m more optimistic. Edmonton just had the Valley Line and is now building the west extension. Calgary has shovels on the ground finally with the Green Line and functional planning on Red Line south and Blue Line airport extensions. I also do think CABR will happen sooner rather than later
Are you saying lack of progress beyond rail? As in for buses?
This is where TOD is a positive thing though. Lots of people take a high order transit like a train for their commute, and can easily take a pit stop on their way home.
He’s campaigned differently though, specifically mentioning support for the green line and blue line extension to the airport for example.
Undermine transit? Are you referencing Farkas’ previous councillor record? I think transit is only on a positive trajectory as the Green Line comes online, and other projects like an airport link and CTrain extensions are essentially supported by all.