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Opinion: The premiers are using bike lanes as a political scapegoat Safe cycling infrastructure saves lives, but sadly, many politicians are ignoring the facts

I wrote something for @theglobeandmail.com
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Alberta government reveals drug jail locations in procurement document The Alberta government has issued a request for interested parties to participate in the procurement process for two forced abstinence detention facilities, to be located in northwest Calgary and nort...

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Alberta's "Compassionate Intervention" drug jails will be located near the existing Spyhill jail in Calgary and near the Alberta Hospital in Edmonton.
Eighty-two companies have expressed interest in participating in the $180 million procurement process. 1/
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Beset by scandals, patriotic pushback, and new rivals, Alberta’s UCP wants us to be mad about … bicycle lanes!  - Alberta Politics Beset by allegations of health care contracting corruption, international coverage of a self-inflicted measles epidemic, anger at municipal political parties nobody wants, increasingly aggressive push...

Beset by scandals, patriotic pushback, and new rivals, Alberta’s UCP wants us to be mad about … bicycle lanes! albertapolitics.ca/2025/08/bese...

We shouldn't. It's the boondoggliest boondoggle in the history of boondoggling #Boondoggliest #CarbonCapture #BigOil #abpoli #cdnpoli #MarkCarney www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/26/o...

Exclusive: Alberta blew past gas flaring ceiling in 2024 as province eliminates limit Energy producers in Alberta, Canada's top oil-producing province, blew past the province's self-imposed limit on annual natural gas flaring in 2024 for a second year in a row, Reuters calculations show.

Reuters reporting that oil and gas producers in Alberta flared (i.e. burned off excess) natural gas to the tune of 912.7 million cubic metres in 2024.

By my math, that would emit about 1.8 megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions.

Or roughly the equivalent of Alberta's entire cement industry.

And this is the woman who owns the company that wants to mine our eastern slopes.

Traffic Safety Team cracks down on noisy vehicles this summer The City of Calgary’s Traffic Safety Team is stepping up enforcement this month to reduce vehicle noise and improve quality of life in neighbourhoods across the city. Drivers operating excessively lou...

The Traffic Safety Team is stepping up enforcement this month to reduce vehicle noise and improve quality of life in neighbourhoods across the city. Drivers operating excessively loud or modified vehicles can expect increased monitoring and fines.
newsroom.calgary.ca/traffic-safe...

🤝Meet the new Farkas, same as the old Farkas

Jeromy Farkas' campaign pledge to ban townhomes, row homes and duplexes citywide suggests that his last four years may have been less of a metamorphosis than advertised and more of a scripted political rebranding exercise.

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💫 Great video of @jeromyyyc.bsky.social pointing out all the forms of housing he’s pledged to make illegal across Calgary.

The UCP is rolling out the red carpet for an Australian billionaire to build coal mines on the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies

🚨 The UCP is rolling out the red carpet for an Australian billionaire to build coal mines on the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies, despite opposition from the majority of Albertans.

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🧵 The chief of police resigns in Calgary two years before his contract ends, forfeiting >$500,000 in salary, and nobody asks any questions.

No news since Saturday, when 100% of stories were reprints of police-friendly public statements.

I have a few ideas about what might have happened. 1/

The Ultimate Guide to Bike Commuting and Urban Cycling This course gives you all the knowledge you need to make the bike a bigger part of your daily life. Through engaging video lessons and expert advice from Tom Babin, learn how to confidently and safely...

I'm excited to finally drop this: After 20 years of bike commuting, a book, and a YouTube channel, I've compiled everything I've learned about urban cycling into a course to help people overcome the barriers to making the bike a bigger part of their lives.
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Alberta Justice Minister has personal relationship with man whose businesses are tied to AHS investigation Mickey Amery told The Globe and Mail that he is a long-time friend of Sam Mraiche and ‘loosely related’ to him through marriage

Alberta Justice Minister has personal relationship with man whose businesses are tied to AHS investigation www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... Amery and Mraiche are long-time friends and related by marriage. And Amery is involved in the AHS scandal in several ways.

Ousted Alberta MLA says premier knew about AHS problems Newly public documents related to the Alberta Health Services’ procurement scandal have laid out a better timeline of what the province knew and when it was informed about the issue.

“Newly public documents related to the Alberta Health Services’ (AHS) procurement scandal have laid out a better timeline of what the province knew and when it was informed about the issue.”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Pick a Lane, Practice What You’ve Preached, Climate Analysts and Advocates Urge Carney With a cabinet to be appointed in the next two weeks, Parliament set to convene May 26, and a trip to Washington, DC on the agenda, Prime Minister Mark Carney is already facing high expectations—and t...

Important and thorough article.
Great work as always from Michael Beer and the Energy Mix.

Members of Danielle Smith's 🤑Billionaires First municipal political party that supported a massive arena subsidy announcement weeks before the last provincial election now oppose much needed funding for community infrastructure.

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⭐️ TAKE ACTION: Email Event Centre Committee Chair Sonya Sharp and all of Calgary city council to ask for transparency and accuracy on the arena deal funding.

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🛩️ Billionaire Flames owners will pocket 100% of the estimated >$100M per year in arena revenues.

Under the terms of the agreement, the billionaire Flames owners will collect 100% of arena operating revenues, estimated to be north of $100M annually based on financial info from a 2024 Forbes report.

🤑 While the Sharp and the City are telling Calgarians that the Flames owners will contribute $356-million (38%) towards the arena over the course of the 35-year agreement, they will actually only be contributing as little as $170-million (18%).

💸 The arena deal even worse for taxpayers than advertised.

Just when it seemed like you couldn’t have imagined a worse deal than the one announced in April 2023, that socialized the costs on the backs of taxpayers and privatized the profits billionaires, Sonya Sharp found a way.

💰Cllr. Sharp Sharing Misleading Info on Arena Agreement

💰Cllr. Sharp and the City are sharing misleading info on the true funding sources for the new arena.

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Danielle Smith from 3 years ago complaining about people contacting her boss to try to get her fired.

Oh the hypocrisy.
#ableg #abpoli

Climate groups push for transparency in alleged fossil fuel education influence Climate advocacy groups are calling on officials to crack down on the fossil fuel industry's role in K-12 education, suggesting its alleged influence has gone largely unchecked in the absence of robus...

Climate advocacy groups CAPE and For Our Kids are calling on officials to crack down on the fossil fuel industry's role in K-12 education, suggesting its alleged influence has gone largely unchecked in the absence of robust climate change education.

🤑🛩️ Billionaires First

The Billionaires First party has a record of advocating for subsiding wealthy elites while forcing harsh austerity on Calgarians.
💰 Arena subsidy
💰 Sprawl subsidies
💰 UCP Green Line interference

www.projectcalgary.org/billionaires...

💰 Millions in public tax dollars
❌ No community consultation
❌ No transparency
❌ No public benefit

City to pave over, remove most Cowboys Park green space The City of Calgary plans to pave over and remove 70 per cent of the green space at Cowboys Park, to the disappointment of festival organizers.

Once again Councillor Terry Wong and his Billionaires First party are putting wealthy special interests ahead of public good.

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Marshall Smith allegations should prompt full procurement investigation The Globe & Mail is reporting top-level allegations that Marshall Smith, former chief of staff to the Alberta premier, interfered in AHS procurement. If a forensic investigation proceeds, it must exte...

@naheednenshi.bsky.social is calling for a forensic investigation of Marshall Smith's alleged interference in AHS procurement.

A guide on questionable contracts pushed through the Ministry of Mental Health & Addiction while Smith was chief of staff there & since:
drugdatadecoded.ca/marshall-smi...

🗑️TAKE ACTION: Tell Danielle Smith to ditch her Trump sympathizer transportation minister waging economic war on Calgary's downtown Green Line, businesses and taxpayers.

#GreenLineYYC

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🤡Sharp Leads Council Capitulation on Green Line

📣Keep up the pressure!
✉️ 1) Email Calgary City Council
✉️ 2) Email the Alberta Government - Ditch the Dreeshen Drawing🖍️
📣 3) Help spread the word:

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🤠 Calgarians are united in opposition to 'reckless' "Dreeshen Drawing" elevated alignment through Beltline and downtown.

Residents, businesses small and large, real estate and property developers are united in opposing the disastrous "Dreeshen Drawing" plan.