Recent content by ByeByeBaby

Thanks for your detailed knowledge! Also, hooray, the feedermain is open for business and restrictions have been lifted! I've already had a long-overdue shower.

Saw a CBC news story today about privatized water supply even closer to home... Installing fire hydrants and then just putting them out of service and fighting the county's attempt to get them working... that's willingness to innovate!

I suspect a professional sports team would not be particularly interested in demobilizing their operations and packing all of their equipment away every night, and then setting it up and cleaning out the food wrappers, dog shit and garbage left by community users every morning. (Even if there's...

There are already a dozen big empty fields in the inner city, and a dozen more entire blocks of empty surface parking that could be the exact same great public asset. And "when the Stamps are not using it" is November to April... prime farmer's market and outdoor fitness time.

I think that this is a good point; the report raises plenty of good questions and issues, not one of which needs to be addressed today rather than in a month. (The most urgent recommendations -- especially building the parallel pipe, which is in progress -- were made in a previous report from...

My interpretation is that doing a vulnerability assessment is a specific formal study type; that doesn't mean that nobody's ever thought about vulnerability before. In the same way project management is a set of techniques that started being done about 110 years ago (first Gantt chart for...

Good article! I'm of the mind that council should provide basic transit to everyone because we live in a society, and sack up and increase taxes a little to increase service on high ridership potential routes. If we want to be a world class city, we do that by paying for world class amenities...

I only count places where I exit the airport-hotel industrial complex. Canada - all provinces ex. NL, plus NWT USA - 20 states and DC Mexico - Jalisco (mostly resort), Quintana Roo, Yucatán, Campeche Bahamas Bermuda Cuba Costa Rica Nicaragua Argentina Uruguay Switzerland France UK Germany...

First, it's terrible communication and PR to announce the closure of a route a month before it stops running, but it's Calgary Transit. Also little disingenuous on CT's part to provide the only comparison being the busiest bus route in the city, especially since the 70 only makes two trips in...

I appreciate your strong advocacy and support for electing more Liberal MPs in Calgary, but the article you linked sure sounds like Toronto's 2026 funding is also at risk. Neither city has lost a penny... yet.

This predates this paradigm, but one example was first aid kits. Every province has worker safety legislation that requires employers to have a first aid kit (and the rules on first aid kits depend on how many workers and how hazardous the work site is), but each set of legislation was slightly...

It's interesting the response to my provocative list which is literally the exact same list as SurrealPlaces with the cruelty removed. All of their more complex sophisticated solutions involve the state providing public housing. Jail is housing, plus meals, plus cruelty. Forced inpatient...

How indeed could we deal with unhoused people? 1) housing 2) housing 3) housing 4) housing 5) housing 6) housing in Edmonton 7) combination of the above Hmmm...

I strongly doubt it. Statscan methodologies define a downtown as the densest area of employment, plus a 1 km buffer, so the thing that would make our downtown area spatially larger would not be population growth, but more employment near the core (but at densities similar to the very high ones...

Why would the feds pay money for something that was going to happen anyway? That's a terrible waste of public funds. In fact, if the goal is housing affordability, why are any funds coming to the areas where housing is more affordable? HAF funding wasn't based on a single policy, different...