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The Globe & Mail's editorialists released an uncharacteristically blunt assessment of the Kinder Morgan Trans-Mountain Saga. It's nice to read a motion of support from a periodical which usually prides itself on finding the "middle" position matters.

I don't believe students are counted unless they are working or actively looking for work. Don't ask me how they track the latter. I have no idea. These students would fall out of the labour force and would be a member of the group (Population - Labour Force). As you can see, the participation...

Haha, not withstanding that Vancouver is maybe more like LA than we are? :p That's a nice little list of heads Calgary has hunted in the past century, but I think that Calgary's next hurdle is rather more of a wall-climb though. With a persistent annual growth rate of 2.5% we're about 20 years...

If I recall correctly, Edmonton is the only major city in Canada with a younger average age than Calgary. I'll go looking for some stats to back that up in a bit, but we can draw some pretty significant conclusions from the LFS data. If you cast your eyes to the purple section which is...

Haha yeah. It's more than a touch optimistic to say that Calgary needs to take down Montreal for the second spot in the country. Calgary's main objective... errr hope?... it isn't like you can really direct population growth. This isn't the Soviet Union. Our main hope is that we should continue...

The March LFS is out. The headlines this morning were all about full-time employment growth so I was hoping we might be in on that. Sadly it wasn't to be. Things were pretty flat for us. The city still grew based on the estimates, but we lost employment and gained unemployment. Both by fairly...

EDIT: Kora & retrofiturbanism now included. Ha: 15,000 Ko: 18,000 rfu: 19,500 SJ: 20,000 SP: 21,000 UW: 21,000 Ob: 23,363 JLC: 27,400 Average: 20,657.88 (~ 20,658) Let's see if we as a little group have any predictive power. :p

23,363 It's a number that I feel possesses the correct aesthetics to be Calgary's growth over the last year.

Welcome aboard. Nice picks! It's safe to say you've got good taste. :D

I understand what you're saying about wanting to catch up on infrastructure, but I think 1% is far too low. I think that's just barely above the natural growth rate for the city. 1% grow for 2017 into 2018 based on the Statcan numbers is just shy of 15K. Excess births over deaths was 10,192...

Nice! I wasn't even aware of this one. Welcome to the site, and great share. There's a lot about the first level, but what's planned for level 2?

Wow, Swan Mall is going to look nothing like it does now when all is said and done. I'm not sure I'm on board with that aspect of the project. Yet more campus greenery under the paving stone of modernism. The new tower and block look nice though. I heard an interesting fact about the course of...

I think I'm roughly in agreement with SP. I think the upsides of high growth generally outweigh the downsides. In part because of what the high grow implies about the state of the economy. The Calgary CMA only actually grew faster that 35K per year in 4 of the last 16 years and only above 40K...

Statcan just released their January population estimates. They only do their quarterly updates at the provincial/territorial and national levels. They estimate that Canada grew by 0.21% from October to January. That's a gain of 78,805 from 36,885,049 to 36,963,854. Barring any weirdness, this...

Except the division structure doesn't allow for that sadly. You've pinpointed the likely second round match-ups for the Central and Atlantic Divisions. I also happen to think that these four teams are the strongest cup contenders too. If the playoffs started tomorrow it would be: So, I'm...

Nice building comrades.

I didn't know PF was gonna be a part of this. I was already really interested in this project now I really can't wait to see what they have in mind.

If you've never heard of it, Todd Hirsch, the leading light of Alberta economics, and his team at ATB, produce a series of articles called the Owl. His insights are almost always worth reading.

Hopefully their first win against the Oilers since 2016 can put a bit of wind in their sails for the final push. The only thing that worries me a bit from last night's result is how much weight they're going to be putting on Smitty's shoulders for the final push. If anyone can carry the team in...

They need an "agree" button to go along with the like button, because I don't like what you had to say, but I do agree with it.