Calgary's water usage was way up on Labour Day, up to 505 megalitres from 473 on Sept. 1. 311 complaints were also down from the day before (but still higher than previously) with 159 water misuse complaints to bylaw. Sprinbank Hill had 9, and Edgemont and Valley Ridge each 6.

New look for #yyccc chambers. It’s very much less… open. It’s like councillors are barricaded behind a wall. #yyc #calgary

Apropos of nothing, but as someone who has a history degree with a capital H, the idea of an objective and impartial view of history is BS.

Round and round and round we go... where it stops don't no one know. #yyc #yyccc #calgary

Mayor Gondek said city council will have to decide the fate of the Green Line, adding that they can no longer continue to fund or finance the $6.25 billion project given the further delays and a potential review. #yyc #calgary #yyccc livewirecalgary.com/2024/09/04/cal…

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Probably not going to be an unpopular sentiment in the days to come, especially as the hundreds of millions in sunk costs for a train that will not be are revealed to the public.

Dreeshan claiming to media #yyc can't tunnel downtown due to high water table. I wonder how it is that we've ever built an underground parkade or stable highrise if that's the case. There is no logic to his claims (that he's borrowing from detractors). #yyccc #greenlineyyc

Green Line letter wasn't the only blindside today from the province. New Legal Aid Agreement signed, but news was the first time many lawyers got a chance to see it. livewirecalgary.com/2024/09/04/alb…

The question that remains to be answered: does the end of the Green Line, and flipflopping by the Minister, mean that this is the end of big projects in Calgary—and the inevitability that here is where we begin to decline from being just a mid-sized North American city.

The gap between the Canadian and American economies has now reached its widest point in nearly a century. My latest for The Hub here: thehub.ca/2024/09/05/tre… #cdnecon #cdnpoli

At Nose Hill this morning where the city’s latest GOAT contractors are eating invasive species in their official uniforms.

BREAKING: Calgary Construction Association Dismayed by Further Delays to Green Line LRT Due to Provincial Funding Pull, Warns of Risk Precedent for Future Provincially Funded Projects cgyca.com/industry-updat… #Calgary #yyccc #ableg #abpoli #GreenLineLRT

As someone who spent years listening to EMS and police calls on the scanner (including in the same newsroom as you for a time), I would say alcohol absolutely is a factor.

How can you put a price on something as priceless as a goat in a coat? Turns out you can, and it's basically a rounding error in a 10-year-long to date program for ecological land management, that is itself more cost effective than manual weeding or the use of herbicides.

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Calgary's public school board ends blanket nut ban. #yyc #calgary #abed #yycbe livewirecalgary.com/2024/09/05/no-…