If folks want to have a discussion on infrastructure, and weak points in Calgary, consider, for a moment, the terrible state of deferred maintenance in our schools.
There are untold billions of maintenance that has been delayed at the CBE.
"Winning municipal campaigns is easier than provincial campaigns. We can get together with Calgarians, have conversations & engage. One of my favorite things about municipal politics. Smaller scale. We can have real community-based conversation enabling forward decision-making"
The City has created a common definition of what 'closed' really means on a 311 request, now it's a question of getting everyone to use it. #yyc#yyccc#calgary
"If the plan is to convert everything worth converting into goodbye kiss revenues for a sunsetting industry, eventually a petrostate will need greater control of its populace & its democracy. The successful implementation of Bills 20 & 18 are vehicles to that end."
"This government loudly rejects federal authority & is now collapsing the powers of the 2 big municipalities in Alberta that supported them the least in the last election. When we see a centralization of power like this in other countries we start worrying about those countries"
Physical copies of “2600: The Hacker Quarterly” are hard to come by. But, if you’re ever in Ottawa you can pick up a copy at “Globe Mags & Cigars” located at 57 William St.
I've been adding to my collection recently.
If you're Canadian and want a peek into the digital underground, the only in person meetings are in Calgary.
#YYC has very long very well lit runways which makes for difficult #aurora viewing from my back yard so it is pretty strong to be viewable in these conditions
"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."
Calgary city councillor Dan McLean on proposed legislation that would allow the provincial government to repeal city bylaws and remove councillors from office:
“They always say the municipalities are like the children of the province, and sometimes parents have to spank their kids."