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    Roads, Highways & Infrastructure

    They were unmanned until sometime in the 90s. Several incidents happened where drivers after seeing the flash go off and expecting a ticket would come back and vandalize the camera setup.Nowadays the motivation would be less as the images likely upload right away and could capture would be...
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    Urban Development and Proposals Discussion

    That historicist facade is from the 2000s. The original form was a boring brick box of no value
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    The Loft | 44m | 11s | Institutional Mortgage Capital

    People in ON and BC
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    Urban Development and Proposals Discussion

    Those things are very fixable. Converting 9th, 6th, 5th and 4th Avenues to 4 lane, 2 way streets with widened sidewalks would be very easy as would reconfiguring the west side of dt to reduce road footprint. I'd also like to see the section of Memorial between the flyover and Deerfoot shrunk to...
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    Calgary & Alberta Economy

    That is ridiculous. Requiring consultation on public land is insane enough. The government should be spending whatever it takes sending reference cases to the Supreme Court to narrow consultation as much as possible and to formalize the requirements. I don't care if I get cancelled but I...
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    Urban Development and Proposals Discussion

    Locating near existing correctional and and mental health facilities should be about as non-controversial as possible. The Spy Hill correctional facility pre-dates all of the area's residential development
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    Calgary & Alberta Economy

    Why? The project is on private land so no duty to consume should exist
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    Calgary & Alberta Economy

    So what is the test? Is it any project that proposes a rail spur or is it any project that could increase mainline traffic? Seems ridiculous to mandate anything beyond local approvals
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    Calgary & Alberta Economy

    I largely agree. The issues are: -can these data centers draw from the grid if their behind the fence generation goes down? If they can, AESO pricing will rise -can these data centers curtail usage and export to the grid during periods of expected high price or coincident peaks? This would...
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    Urban Development and Proposals Discussion

    Come to Texas if you want to see police harassing homeless and addicts. In Dallas, the police will immediately seize and destroy drugs and paraphernalia from anyone consuming in public. I've seen the cops force meth heads to stomp on their pipes and pick up the pieces. The police do not tolerate...
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    Calgary & Alberta Economy

    Really? This is a local facility that doesn't cross provincial boundaries and is mostly warehouses
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    Calgary & Alberta Economy

    Would this project even require federal permits?
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    Calgary & Alberta Economy

    All that is need are new pipelines to the west and gulf coasts, twinning the TCH through BC and freeway access to all port facilities in Vancouver area. BC will struggle to meet internal power demand so talk of more power lines isn't relevant. Laurentian Canada already has great export...
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    Statscan numbers

    BC's debt has grown almost 50% in 2 years and the revenue outlook is poor due to real estate bust. Eventually austerity will hit Victoria
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    Statscan numbers

    Yes

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