Jeremy Klaszus

Curious Calgary: The ’88 Olympics | The Sprawl A place for you, a place for me.

New comic in The Sprawl by @calgaryhester.bsky.social, about her long-forgotten artistic contribution to Calgary's 1988 Olympics!

The Calgary skyline at night, with the Olympic torch burning atop the Calgary Tower

The beacons are lit! 🔥

Dammit, I wrote a good headline this aft and now I have to rise to meet it. That happens sometimes! Gotta deliver on what the headline promises.

Cartoon on Washington Post‘s mass layoffs

Screenshot of Mayor Jeromy Farkas being interviewed by Jeremy Klaszus

Plugging away at new Sprawlcast. And comics series—and more. Excited for The Sprawl's new edition, which kicks off this weekend!

A bleak day in the news biz. Support local journalism, folks. @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social and @livewirecalgary.bsky.social are out here working hard for Calgarians. It's easy to take local journalism for granted but I urge you: please don't.

We need to find a way to tell the youths about alt-weeklies so they restart them

Beautiful!

These grey January days, man.

If I'm being honest, the collapse of the post-Cold War international order and the violent occupation of an American city are making it difficult for me to concentrate on housing policy.

A cargo e-trike with a printing press inside - at a busy community block party

Had a dream last night that I took out The Sprawl's Pop-Up Press. Twas a nightmare. Part of the front wheel fell off. I took it into a downtown building (why? dunno) and got stuck in there—couldn't get out. Then woke up.

The Pop-Up Press is in hibernation for the winter but will return in spring!

Glad I'm not the only one wondering...

Jon Fosse is good for the soul.

Cone was supposed to be on last night, the 14yo (human, not dog) decided it wasn't necessary anymore, liberated dog ate stitches under cover of darkness 🙃

Sorry to hear it. This doofus ate the stitches out of his side (post-surgery) last night. Still love him.

Now that is splurging!

If it's yellow FLUSH IT DOWN!!!!!!!! (what I would have written if I was doing comms for the City of Calgary today, upon the lifting of water restrictions after 2+ weeks)

Let my machine talk to me

Sorry to see you leave journalism—a big loss for the Ceeb and for Calgary journalism. But this sounds like an exciting step. There are some real upsides to going independent. Congrats!

Ah yes, the ill-fated "pivot to video" that was basically falsified by FB! This time around seems different, in that text (unless highly inflammatory) is penalized. Video catches in a way that text doesn't.

Hope to keep delivering on that! You know you're in trouble (and me) if you click on that link and it's a video of me yammering on

I was going to say - I'm not even sure where one would post transcripts on some of these platforms. But one can do captions

When it comes to the future of journalism, I have a sense of bewilderment going into 2026. The push is all towards video and yammering on. Kill me now.

As this proceeds it will be interesting to see which councilors start fighting against implementing any recommendations that would limit sprawl (i.e., could impact their developer donors and supporters).

How ​‘strategic amnesia’ led to Calgary’s water pipe disasters | The Sprawl A costly example of a common pattern.

Excellent analysis of Calgary's water pipe mess from @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social (www.sprawlcalgary.com/bearspaw-wat...)

That quote was in the midst of a verrrry long council meeting Wednesday, and when I heard it I thought - well, that's it.

Anytime a growth application comes to council, it has a feeling of inevitability to it (at least to me, an observer). That pressure you're talking about.

Excellent, as always. This crisis has many parents. Councils and Admin are under tremendous pressure to cut costs while adding new growth. Any councillor who cut the maintenance budgets & utility rates was treated like a hero. Also, Provincial funding for Alberta cities has been cut in half.

Thanks Holly!

Let us not forget the immense pressure from Calgary residents to always lower property taxes and eliminate spending on anything that isn't an apparent necessity. Twinning the Bearspaw feeder without a rupture would certainly get an entire council turfed by an enraged electorate.