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So, the clarify, I said swap the downtowns. Not swap the things that are around the downtowns. Calgary's riverfront is a treasure. As for the parks that are right in downtown Calgary, they're mediocre at best. And while I don't disagree that Toronto could use more greenspace, Calgary would be...

New Janet Brown poll is out: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/danielle-smith-rachel-notley-ucp-ndp-alberta-janet-brown-1.6638402 NDP 47 UCP 38 AP 3 WRP 2 Other 2 Undecided 8 A couple interesting things to note: 1. The UCP only leads by 8 points outside Edmonton and Calgary. How's that...

Toronto's downtown has nicer parks than Calgary's. What is an actual nice park in downtown Calgary? I guess if you include St. Patrick and Prince's Island as part of "downtown", they're quite nice. But if you were doing that, you'd also have to include the Toronto Islands as part of Toronto's...

You can't move to Vaughan and claim you've moved to Toronto. If you move to Toronto, you just need to find a way to live in a more central area. However, it seems like this person just doesn't really like big cities. They say "the transit system is much more complex than YYC and downtown is...

It's really great how the area to the west of the building was transformed from a bunch of surface parking lots into an actual greenspace.

What's really funny is how the ASI people were boasting to the Calgary Herald a few years ago about how they were going to turn 17th Ave into Calgary's "Mink Mile". It's been a while since I was in Yorkville, but I don't recall seeing much oil-canned aluminum siding and EIFS along Bloor Street.

Here's an interview she just did with the Western Standard discussing AHS. Just utterly, utterly unhinged. She's accusing AHS of conspiring with the World Economic Forum. She's talking about shutting down the scientific advisory board because they didn't consider the "broader science" of...

Every "political compass" style survey I've ever seen, which places people into four quadrants (economic left and right, cultural left and right), always shows that the fewest voters fall into the "economically conservative, socially liberal" quandrant. Most people who want smaller government...

I'd be curious to know who the "extremist nutjobs" are that are attracted to the NDP and whether you think they influence the NDP's governing strategies.

Stop trying to make "The Alberta Party" happen. More seriously, I still don't understand: who is the constituency that is not currently being served by either the UCP or NDP? I just don't see the point of the Alberta Party. Has there every been a centrist 3rd party that has been competitive...

New Navigator poll has NDP 53, UCP 38

Here are the ridings from 2019 where the NDP performed best despite losing. The NDP needs to flip at least 20 seats to win - most likely within these ridings. Red text denotes places where the UCP won with only a plurality. Riding NDP% UCP% Diff Calgary-Falconridge 44.90% 45.60% 0.70%...

OMFG Ward 7 really screwed things up by electing Wong!

So... cater exclusively to the ridings that are guaranteed to vote for you in the next election while alienating the swing ridings. Makes perfect sense.

The problem is that if she pivots to the centre, she'll run into the same problem as Kenney: a revolt on her right. The problem with the UCP is structural, not strategic. The base that determines the leadership is completely out of step with the electorate as a whole. You see this at the federal...

How much damage is she going to do in the meantime? Firing the leadership of AHS because she's mad about vaccines will get very, very messy and definitely won't help ER wait times.

Retired boomer man to the rescue to assure everyone that the status quo is actually perfect and you should all stop trying to change things.

If the province is ideologically opposed to transit, then transit is dead in the water no matter what the governance and funding arrangements. That's the point. The province is the real power here. It is the only level of government that can build transit on its own. Not the feds. Not the...

Exactly. Which is why this city-led process is so terrible. In order to keep everyone on the same page, you need some mega-event. Mass transit has been treated like some special prize that provincial and federal politicians roll out during elections, when it should be treated like basic...