Recent content by darwink

The tag line is blah. Oh well. I'll sit in my corner, loving the marketing that came out in 2001 which was approved then abandoned within weeks:

The tag line would not have costed that much. The marketing campaign attached to it for five years, which paid for the tagline process, likely will. If we fire the marketing firm, there is likely a break fee to pay for their upfront costs. Just a misunderstanding of how marketing gets paid...

Calgary has hollowed out on heavy manufacturing too. Not being able to support water intensive industries is a challenge.

Alberta has input in immigration to and could do more if they wanted. They would have to hire people to do it though so just like with collecting Albertan’s income taxes there is a lot of cost for pretty minor benefits when the feds will let the province change things a lot within broad...

How to accurately account for temporary residents makes things hard. The stagnation of per capita gdp might just be a change in measurement/accuracy rather than a sign of actual stagnation.

The Statscan sector numbers are less accurate than I think they should be. Look at concerns over Statscan reporting more and more government employment but if you add up all public sector employment it just hasn’t grown nearly as fast as Statscan says. So grain of salt, etc.

Best to take the tax part as a signal, if they had a good idea in this area they would have announced consulting on a hint of an idea.

Pretty standard city processes, but the $ amount is very likely a blend of hyperbole with back casting a future estimate on how to move such a thing.

When in opposition, the Wildrose opposed regional planning to limit exurban sprawl imposed by the province, and opposed Calgary using water license agreements to dictate minimum densities in new developments in Calgary's ring communities. This shouldn't surprise anyone.

Plus time value of money. Sheesh.

All the old Calgary Health Region strategies went out the window. Unfortunate, as a full main tower rebuild of foothills was in there plus a huge expansion. Sure, it sounds great, but it is enabled by having the university right there. Much easier to create more urban spaces and connectivity...

Yeah. Sharing tracks is the name of the game! The financial deal works by 'leasing' the ROW with extra capacity provided to CPKC. At the end of the 30-50 years, the AB government which has been paying availability payments either takes ownership and re-leases it out (affirmage) to recover some...

My understanding is that this is basically the plan but the funding arrangement will act like they are different.

Quebec operates an immigration system to some success. Naturalization and Aliens (borders) is exclusively federal jurisdiction. I guess if the provinces want to use spending power to incentivize or disincentivize aliens entry or departure, that that would be analogous to what the federal...

The issue with hospitals is not access to land.