I particularly like how the Uni Prez keeps citing "Policy and Procedure" like it is Holy Writ. I write P&P professionally: sausage-making has nothin' on it. But evidently "following P&P" is the new version of "just following orders."
The press is always at pains to identify how many protesters/arrestees "aren't students." Those dastardly Outside Agitators are at it again, corrupting and misleading our naive young.
@robsonfletcher unrelated: I see a MEC snowfield tent in there (yellow and blue dome to the lower right). That’s a great tent and I still have the one my family bought in 1992.
"Using shields, batons and flashbang explosives, Calgary police officers forcibly removed a group of protesters Thursday night from an encampment set up on the University of Calgary campus."
Councillors say colleague Coun. Sean Chu is participating via camera online, but couldn't explain the lack of in-person attendance at Calgary's citywide rezoning public hearing. #yyc#calgary#yyccc
@msh@roger Take a look at the houses that are being replaced now. Smaller homes on large lots being razed to be replaced by behemoth houses. That's not preserving any neighbourhood character.
I am sure there will be some issues, but parking and traffic issues are less important than homelessness.
@Perrin49@roger not only that but more and more larger homes end up with boarders in the basement or even illegal suites. The house next door was once rented out to 4 young guys, each with their own vehicle, and it isn't even a big house.
In some neighbourhoods there are lots of larger homes with boarders or extended families with like 8+ people living there and 4 or 5 cars.
In a lot of cases rezoning is about acknowledging the current reality and enabling more appropriate ways to manage population density and affordability.
Calgarians' submissions to city council on the blanket-rezoning proposal have been published and more than a few folks seem to think this is the work of the World Economic Forum...
Example #1: "This city is now run by a mayor and councillors who are simply disgusting demons following WEF agenda"
"The current liberal government is being governed by principles of the world economic forum and the United Nations agenda 2030. This is communism and you are acting in a manner that Will destroy the city."
@Jonathanglick FWIW these 11 responses are among more than 5,000 (!!) submissions on the topic so I don't think they're too out of the range of expectation.
I don't really know if or why it's any greater here than elsewhere but I'd guess these things tend to build within a particular community and then become self-reinforcing, especially when repeated over and over in social circles & on social media.
People start to take it as fact because everyone around them believes it too.
I realize i was spoiled by the proximity and quality of the defunct Eau Claire Y, in #Calgary. But as public pools slowly disappear from the city’s centre, i worry swimming is becoming an exclusive activity.
As Calgary experiences a backlash against its single use plastics bylaw, this report is pretty relevant:
"But as DeSmog reported last year, advanced recycling is an industry concept, not a scientific one. In fact, according to CCI, “‘Advanced recycling’ is the industry’s most recent false solution intended to shield petrochemical companies from backlash associated with the plastic waste crisis they have created.”
Touted as a win-win strategy to address both our downtown woes and increase the supply of affordable #housing, office conversions have put #Calgary on the map.
But the devil is in the details, and the equity-deserving populations this program claims to support might be shortchanged.
