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The new North Hill co-op rocks!!

Perspectives: On housing, Mayor Farkas promised a plan and hasn’t delivered - LiveWire Calgary Believe it or not, Mayor Jeromy Farkas is a member of the More Neighbours Calgary community. During the campaign, he regularly engaged with members on housing and city issues. One phrase came up again...

“Repeal and replace” was a campaign commitment. Making housing more affordable was the goal. It’s time for Mayor Farkas to stand by that commitment, or admit it was never the plan at all.

Stop Sprawl » Alberta Talks For years, the City Council chose to sprawl instead of investing in existing neighbourhoods. Now, they are planning changes that will make urban sprawl worse. They are hosting a public hearing before ...

Once wetlands are gone, they are gone forever. Urban #sprawl has caused these natural spaces to disappear permanently and we have to stop it. Tell City Council to protect our wetlands and say no to sprawl: albertatalks.ca/defend #yyc #yyccc #Density #Housing #Upzoning #ClimateChange

One hundred accounts are behind the majority of conspiracy theory content in Canada Researchers analyzed more than 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada and found that 87 per cent of conspiratorial claims come from influencers, with just 100 users responsible for near...

The Media Ecosystem Observatory has found that just 100 accounts in Canada are responsible for 68% of posts promoting conspiracy theories. But they are having an outsized impact on local governments.

Read my latest:

www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/n...

U of C folding classics, religion department as school faces multimillion-dollar budget shortfall | CBC News The University of Calgary is shuttering at least one department in its faculty of arts and scaling back on hiring as the school grapples with a multimillion-dollar budget deficit.

being a millennial means having multiple degrees in departments that don't exist anymore
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Premier's address sets the stage for a nasty, lie-filled year Politics in Alberta are going to get nasty this year, argues Jim Storrie, as the Premier sets out to convince us all to believe two big lies about immigration.

The political discourse in Alberta may soon be the foulest it's been in years, as the UCP and its allies gear up for a newly-announced referendum campaign against immigrants.

Chinese Head Tax in Canada The Chinese head tax was enacted to restrict immigration after Chinese labour was no longer needed to build the Canadian Pacific Railway. Between 1885 and 192...

One of the worst episodes of Canada's past was the Chinese Head Tax. Something that the Harper government eventually apologized for and provide compensation. And she wants to bring it back! thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/c...

The UCP has been in power for 51 of the last 55 years but according to Danielle Smith it's the family who arrived six months ago that is wrecking the province.

image of an ad from the Alberta government encouraging people to move from Toronto to Alberta

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incredible stuff

A twitter post by Bruce McAllister, referencing a post about immigration statistics from David Coletto. " @McAllisterBruce The people orchestrating this reckless, unsustainable mass immigration into Canada fill me with profound disgust. To deliberately engineer and champion such explosive, unmanageable population growth in your own nation? That's the height of civic irresponsibility. Was it fueled by greed? Did they line their pockets while irrevocably straining our healthcare, education, and social safety nets? Or does their contempt for Canada's core values and traditions drive them to flood our borders with millions from societies not built on the same foundations that have made us thrive? Why import from nations with failed systems when our Judeo-Christian heritage and principles have worked so well here? It almost feels like these elites are ashamed of what built this great country. This is a stark reminder of why Albertans, and indeed countless Canadians, harbor deep mistrust toward the Laurentian elite in Ottawa. They seem all too eager to prioritize their agendas over the well-being of the True North strong and free."

Commenting on Canada's latest federal immigration numbers, executive director in the Premier's office Bruce McAllister gets real blood-and-soil with it.

"Why import from nations with failed systems when our Judeo-Christian heritage has worked so well here?"

is this good

Here are the secret lists of banned books from Alberta's 2 largest school boards The Calgary Board of Education removed 42 books from its libraries and the Edmonton Public School Board removed 33 in response to an order from Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides.

SCOOP: I obtained the lists of books banned at the Edmonton and Calgary public school boards.

Click to find out which ones were removed.

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I wonder what it's like being a CIA guy in a bar in rural Alberta and running into your FSB counterpart who's doing the exact same work

3 panel comic Panel 1: A crowd is watching TV in a bar. The TV is facing away from the reader. The crowd ecstatically screams “YEAHHHH!” Panel 2: A new guy walks into shot from the left and says “You guys watching football?” A guy in crowd answers “Nope” Panel 3: The new guy looks at the TV screen and immediately screams “OH FUCK YEAH”

imagine if it happens on tv

new all time reaction image just dropped

somebody really needs to Do It

Getting to yes on housing in Massachusetts - The Boston Globe Communities need to move from a default “no” on housing to a default “yes.”

“When a planning or zoning board rejects or reduces the size of an apartment project, or imposes unreasonable and costly conditions, that directly undermines the public good. They should be expected to explain why their actions were truly necessary.”
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/28/o...

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My transport plan is simple: a lifetime ban on driving for anyone with a DUI, turning drunks into a powerful constituency in favour of dense walkable neighbourhoods

ANALYSIS | The rise of the electrostate: By dominating clean energy, China is leading on climate action | CBC News China’s massive lead in clean technologies has shifted the climate fight from one of big pledges and international diplomacy toward a technological revolution in cheaper energy, analysts say.

“We're having a kind of a politics whereby petrostates are resisting change and new emerging electrostates like China are pushing it forward,” But sure build a pipeline: www.cbc.ca/news/science... #cdnpoli #EnergyTransition

Who is interested in car-free living in the US? Findings from a nationwide survey The United States (US) is infamously car dependent, causing environmental, safety, and social problems. Car-free living is one way to combat the downs…

Is the US irredeemably a "car culture"? No.

18% of Americans are open to car-free living, which would be transformative.

Focus on making that possible for them: transit, active modes, better land use.

Change the facts and the culture will follow.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Not sure how we’re expected to keep living our lives without any kind of confirmation that #TheChairCompany will have a second season. What a cliffhanger!

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Albertans Want Polluters To Pay, But Government Trying to Pass Bill to Public The Alberta Energy Regulator “has black marks all over it for being one sided to development companies like oil and gas and coal,” says Bill Trafford.

"Landowners’ frustration with industry is reaching a boiling point... Unless these issues are addressed, there can be no consideration of increased production, no new pipelines, or carbon capture and storage. It makes no sense."
therockies.life/albertans-wa... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

do other cities feel the need to automatically do fiscal discipline and austerity, or is that just a Calgary thing

when people are like "x media is good but the dialogue is overwrought" i'm like dude my favorite show is Hannibal where in the first episode one guy asks another guy "what do you see me as" and he responds "i think you are the mongoose i want under the house when the snakes slither by"

People on board with new solution to Toronto traffic that would limit cars on city streets Fixing Toronto's gridlock is now so high on the political agenda that the Province is ripping out brand-new bike lanes in a misguided attempt to get …

iCYMI: "Paris started with periodic, strategic closures of key streets, then day-long closures of the entire city center, always in the context of the conversation about air quality, livability & noise…It's a very smart way of doing it." — @brenttoderian.bsky.social in BlogTO. #Paris