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Never posted this before, and literally not my argument. Never said prisons are municipally funded lol. That’s obvious. What is municipal is the majority of costs associated with dealing with criminals/poverty in a city. More criminals, more costs for policing, overdoses, vandalism, lost...

I think you guys are misunderstanding. Prisons are obviously paid for by the province and Feds. But many of the prisoners aren’t from the city. They come in from elsewhere. But when released, they end up in the city. So the policing, fire for ODs and arsons, vandalism, disorder...

I know the Edmonton comment is a joke, but if we wanted an objective take on it, Calgary should either be sending a sizeable amount of it’s municipal budget to Edmonton or we should ensure the addition of a new prison in Calgary soon and Edmonton should be allowed to send down folks needing...

There’s a few being done: CN Building - 344 units Phipps McKinnon - ~60 units I think plus office and retail. And some recent ones: Capital tower - 150+ Peak tower - 200+ All of these moving forward without taxpayer subsidies. But what taxpayers are subsidizing is the extension of our...