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We had an olde tymey themed entertainment district. It was called Eau Claire. It didn't do so well because people found it tacky.

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Cochrane has us beat in this regard.

I don't think Torontonians and Vancouverites think their province revolves around them. I just don't think Torontonians identify more strongly with, say, Thunder Bay or Windsor, than they do with Vancouver or Montreal. The same can be said about Vancouverites not feeling particularly close to...

My question is, when will Calgarians stop calling themselves "Albertans"? That was one of the biggest culture shocks when I arrived here from Toronto. I never once heard anyone in Toronto refer to themselves as "Ontarians". But Calgarians always refer to themselves as "Albertans". I do think it...

Just spitballing here, but if CT wanted to speed up the bus on 16 st, perhaps the might reconsider stopping every 200 meters.

They just rebuilt the curbs around Altadore School and created sidewalk extensions at the main crosswalk. Seems like an obvious place to have added a raised crosswalk. Doesn’t seem like money would have been this issue here. More likely the City has little experience building them. They only...

I’ve wondered the same thing, particularly in front of parks and schools where the speed limit is already 30.

Right! Make 30 km/h the default! I like the way you think.

Oh my god. I just watched the presentation that @whatchyyc posted. I could cry. They get it! They finally get it! Everything from separated bike lanes to proper soil for trees. Please, please, please let this plan go forward without getting vetoed by some crusty old fart in the transportation...

Looks like they're getting rid of this little PoMo flourish, which is literally the only thing slightly interesting about this building. Lame. I guess corporate Calgary needs to be as boring as possible.

That's good to know. When I moved to this city 8 years ago, the City was just finishing the last redesign of 8th street, which basically leaned into the status quo of prioritizing cars. I could have never imagined that they would have the guts to shrink a 4-5 lane road down to 2-3 lanes...

One of the big stories of this election was that turnout was down from 67.5% in 2019 to 62.4% (still one of the highest turnouts in living memory). However, there were 14 districts that actually saw increased turnout. As you might imagine, this appears to be caused by competitiveness. Almost all...

https://engage.calgary.ca/8StreetSW Looks like someone at the City is reading @CBBarnett 's posts:

The left-populist anger that the NDP channelled helped them draw together 600,000+ voters, permanently vanquishing all the other progressive parties. I agree that the landscape was different in 2019 and 2023, and the same strategy wouldn't have worked. I still think opposition parties need to...

People keep saying this, but no one votes for centrist parties, because they don't stand for anything. They just try to triangulate the positions of the other parties that do stand for things. We'll never know for sure, but there's definitely a school of thought that says the NDP lost because it...

I wouldn't expect a huge difference in seats by the next election. Calgary+Edmonton (cities proper) were 54.37% of Alberta's population in 2021. That's up from 52.37% in 2011. So, maybe 57% by the end of the decade? That would justify an additional 3-4 seats across the two cities, but more...

TBH, it's probably better for the NDP to have lost this election the way they did. If they had won, they would have had a tiny majority (potentially resulting in a deadlock around the speakership), and their legitimacy would be further called into question from losing the popular vote by several...

There were 24 electoral divisions in 2019 where the NDP were less than 25 percentage points behind the UCP. They came up short on several of them, particularly the ones outside Calgary (Lesser Slave Lake, Lethbridge-East, and almost Banff-Kananaskis). There were actually quite a few ridings that...

Vapid? You seriously don't think it matters that Smith spent her career advocating for privatized healthcare and now that she's finally in power and has to win re-election she just happened to change her mind? You don't think it matters that she advocated against all public health measures to...