Troy Pavlek

🥰 thx babe

Though it's worth noting that usually the honeymoon period expires and I start getting on people's nerves - hope that doesn't happen for you soon!

Mayor of Fort Saksatchewan "Gale Katchur the Cat Killer" is running again (this time as a councillor)

We go live to my cats for their reaction

Tbh the "standard" of anything that doesn't include me is "substandard"

Want to save money on rent in Edmonton?

I've been living rent-free for months in mayoral candidate Tim Cartmell's head!

All you have to do is point out that he doesn't show up to work and he'll continually stumble over himself torpedoing the best-financed campaign in the city

I can send a couple feelers around then (I'm sure they'll be able to self select if they can do it)

Would independent CPAs be acceptable for this or do you need it to be a full professional firm for some bureaucratic reason?

Plus we've got a whole melange of candidates already in the pot, hoping to become mayor

With Michael Walters officially in the mayoral race we've got quite the mayoral stew cookin'

It's big, I guess.

This weekend at the cabin:

Finished the "kitchen" area with insulation, vapour barrier, wiring and mounting cabinets 🥵

We can even baby-steps it. Just start with 83ave in front of the market, and get bigger and bigger from there.

And like, I do need to preserve my reputation so I'd prefer it to be true (or grant me a time machine to undo blasting this to every platform)

Michael Walters, former two-term Councillor, intends to run for Mayor In 2021, Michael Walters was often called the heir-apparent, but opted not to run. Now he intends to rejoin the race.

BIG Edmonton Mayoral news:

Michael Walters, former two-term councillor, intends to run for mayor.

I have heard this rumour from enough separate trustworthy sources that I'm comfortable running with it.

This is a huge shakeup. #yegvote

troypavlek.ca/posts/michae...

Sarah Hamilton is Big Mad Enough (ft. Alex Cameron, Molly Lewis, Jimmy Barnes)

Nova Scotia may have invented the telephone, but they don't have any

The big winner in all of this is Knack, but I don't see this as some big 4D play where Tim Cartmell constantly says Knack is a bad choice for mayor... In order to get him elected?

I mean, if he wants Jaffer to win he can drop out and endorse. I don't see what the extra "fucking around and burning a million dollars that could have gone to Jaffer" does

What's the deal? The evidence is compelling, but I'm having a hard time understanding who the beneficiary is?

YouTube comments are still incredible

In the funniest result ever, this motion to "keep maximum number of midblock infill units at 8 instead of reducing it to 6" passes.

Ties fail. If Vacation Timmy had shown up to work, then he would have helped materially restrict infill development.

But he didn't.

meanwhile @erinrutherford.bsky.social, who was also on vacation, recognized the importance of the debate, and called in

Tim Cartmell skipped the infill debate at City Hall today, continuing his pattern of not showing up for important votes.

It MUST have happened before. I vaguely recall in the COVID days there was a councillor that thought they were muted and said some very unparliamentary stuff about a speaker, but I'm struggling to find it now.

Things got tense yesterday at Edmonton City Council with Sarah Hamilton screaming at her colleague - in the middle of the meeting - "Fuck you, Jo-Anne Wright. Fuck you"

As recently as yesterday he had Timbits trolling around public events trying to make up his signature deficit.

Here's Nicholas Rheubottom trying to bail out his sinking team at Nagar Kirtan (you can see the signature clipboard)

Tim Cartmell was supposed to launch his municipal party six days ago (in a Freson Bros parking lot, lol)

But he hasn't, because he still short the required signatures to even start a party.

The cabin has a bed

Sohi returns to the mayor's chair, Timbits filling up for the May 13th party launch After losing the election in Edmonton-Southeast, Amarjeet Sohi has retaken the mayoral seat. Meanwhile, Tim Cartmell looks to fill out 13 candidates before launching his party mid-May.

The federal election is over, so it's your friendly, neighbourhood municipal politics wonk here to let you know that I'm STILL tracking everything going on in the race this October.

In this update: Sohi's back in the chair, and Cartmell has 8/13 of his Timbits

troypavlek.ca/posts/sohi-r...

Relaxing Friday off

My opinion is that parking should be at minimum cost of delivery and infrastructure - so probably $15-20/hr.

My opinion is not implementable in this political reality