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Terry Wong votes with his party to prioritize more sprawl over Ward 7 communities — Ward 7 Record Councillor Wong has decided to support his party to annex more land on the edge of Calgary to help pave one gravel road instead of fixing the roads of Ward 7.

“Ward 7 deserves a councillor that doesn't support the agenda of his party at the expense of the neighborhoods he represents.”

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Calgary police "image recognition" software identifies individuals in photos & videos posted online Documents show that two years after being caught using Clearview AI facial recognition software, Calgary police signed contracts for AI software that scours photos and videos for individuals. Have pol...

SCOOP 🧵

Two years after being caught using Clearview AI facial recognition software, Calgary police signed contracts for "image recognition" software that scours photos and videos for individuals. 1/
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Cycle Toronto wins Charter challenge, saving bike lanes on Yonge, University, and Bloor

⚡️⚡️. @cycletoronto.bsky.social along with individuals Eva Stanger-Ross and Narada Kiondo, have won their Charter challenge against Ontario’s Bill 212 — Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act, 2024.

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Bell: Stop! Calgary councillor demands a pause on more city bike lanes Calgary bike lanes. A city councillor wants new city hall bike lane plans halted, Danielle Smith's UCP ready to tangle with Mayor Gondek

Dear #yycbike,

Rick Bell seems intent on a culture war, w/ municipal elxns a few months away. Presumably he thinks that’d be good for his team. To each their own, but I suggest we don’t take the bait. Rather, do everything you can to elect reasonable 🚲 councillors.
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We need to make "Summer Streets" happen so often that it's just "Streets."

How BUMP Festival is Enhancing Calgary’s Cultural Script — REVERIE There’s a new kind of cultural leadership rising in Calgary and it’s got perfect taste and deep roots in the underground. At the helm of BUMP Festival, Calgary’s most progressive and visually strikin...

“BUMP’s success is the result of doing the opposite: knowing the underground intimately and giving it a platform that feels elevated, not sanitized.”

www.reverie-online.com/interviews/z...

Don't breathe the air Necrocapitalism's hold on Canada's elites

"Canada’s economy worships at the altar of death. Necrocapitalism is pouring public resources into new energy corridors when we have what we need already, and the technology is there to replace the dirty fuels of the past." noraloreto.substack.com/p/dont-breat... @nolore.bsky.social #CDNPoli

The Ontario Place spa: new drawings, still a disaster Newly released visuals of the planned site show a malignant growth on the city

The Ontario Place waterpark is a catastrophe. Diamond Schmitt @diamondschmitt.bsky.social want to tell you it is great. It is not.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

#topoli #onpoli #ontarioplace

Danielle Smith, Queen of Measles | The Tyee Alberta leads the continent in stoking the disease’s resurgence. The province’s former top doctor lays blame.

Alberta now leads the continent in a preventable childhood disease that leaves at least two of every 1,000 infections with severe intellectual disabilities, pneumonia or hearing loss. Or dead.

Andrew Nikiforuk writes. #abpoli

Chat bots set loose by the Province to distract people from this dumpster fire UCP gov wrecking the Green Line, blowing up the mountains for coal mining, dismantling health care, attacking human rights and stoking separatism.

Paris is getting a whole new Metro network. And it’s huge | CNN The Grand Paris Express will add four lines, 68 stations and 200 kilometers of track to the French capital’s 120-year-old Metro system, providing vital suburban links – just not quite in time for the ...

Remember this? Paris is getting a whole new Metro network in a ring connecting suburbs. It’s HUGE. And built FAST.

“The venerable #Paris Métro is about to get its most significant upgrade in decades with the arrival of the Grand Paris Express, a new 200km system with 4 new lines & 68 new stations.”

So why reverse the zoning change that allows for more of (at least some of) these types of mixed housing choices to be options in more neighbourhoods? In the absence of that we have redevelopment in areas close to amenities that are becoming places that require 2million+ to move in?

Alberta youth have the right to school library books that reflect their lives, including sexuality Recent policy directions introduced by Alberta Education raise alarm bells, with PEN Canada saying the actions of the government pave “the way to a new era of government-sponsored book banning.”

Researchers call out the Alberta governments ongoing homophobia and attacks against 2SLGBTQ+ youth.
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Alberta Next survey asks if province should withhold social services for immigrants CALGARY - Whether Alberta should withhold social services from immigrants is among the issues Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is tabling for debate this summer when she travels the province to

Because denying immigrants access to provincial programs... *checks notes*... helps bolster Alberta's sovereignty?

This Alberta Next exercise is pretty thinly veiled.

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YouTube video by Myke Atkinson 2035 Ward 7 Protected Cycling Network

In this video, I share my vision to build out a complete, protected cycling network across Ward 7 over the next decade — using routes already outlined in official City plans.

#yyc #yycbike #Ward7 #yyccc #SafeStreets #BikeYYC #UrbanPlanning #ActiveTransportation

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In London and Paris, we’ve experienced vicious backlash to climate action. But we’re not backing down | Sadiq Khan and Anne Hidalgo Around the world, well-funded, organised climate deniers are spreading lies about the crisis. We call on governments and tech companies to step up, say London mayor Sadiq Khan and Paris mayor Anne Hid...

As London and Paris take climate action and invest in AT they are facing a coordinated well funded disinformation campaigns. Could Andy Fillmore's complete about face on his view of active travel be similarly motivated? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Urban glitz and rural discontent in Big Oil’s Alberta | The Narwhal At a community meeting in Warburg, Alberta, residents wonder: will anyone make Big Oil pay its taxes and clean up its mess?

In 24 hours, @drewanderson.bsky.social travelled to a gathering of rural landowners in Warburg, Alberta, and then to a global oil show in Calgary.

The stark differences reveal the disparity between the seats of power and the experience on the ground, he writes.

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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.

Oil & gas facilities in Alberta exceeding the flaring limit by 36% last year, so the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) quietly eliminated the flaring limit altogether. www.reuters.com/sustainabili... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #ClimateChange

As part of a bold kickoff to the Global Energy Show in Calgary today, man sticks head up his own arse. 🏭💨

Am I the only one who finds it slightly galling that premiers are pitching major projects to an open-eared prime minister right now -- including pipelines -- as a province burns around them and people are forced to evacuate?????

As a result of wildfires which are exacerbated by climate change???

Premiers united in belief that the best way to stand up to Trump is doing what they've always wanted to do anyways SASKATOON – As they gather with PM Mark Carney for the meeting of First Ministers, the Premiers of Canada’s provinces are steadfast in their belief that the best way to oppose Donald Trump’s tariffs a...

Premiers united in belief that the best way to stand up to Trump is doing what they’ve always wanted to do anyways

Scientists from the government of Alberta have confirmed that “Fish in Crowsnest Lake (in SW Alberta) contain tissue selenium concentrations that exceed guidelines and rival fish selenium levels downstream of active MTR [Mountaintop removal] operations.”

Fire Weather by John Vaillant is an essential read right now, for all of us, but especially for decision-makers.

Map of top 100 bicycle infrastructure projects in Calgary. https://www.calgary.ca/planning/transportation/pathway-bikeway-plan.html

The City of Calgary has listed out its top 100 projects to improve bicycle infrastructure. This is what it looks like on a map. 👇
There is clearly interest in improving things east of the Deerfoot.
#yycBike #Calgary

The Trump Presidency’s World-Historical Heist He is taking self-enrichment to a scale never seen before in America.

President Trump and his family are extorting billions of dollars from US companies and foreign nations. In new piece for @TheAtlantic I examine past US corruption - and conclude Trump can't be compared to anything American, only Russia or Africa. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Northback suffers another judicial defeat. Having lost its efforts to appeal the Grassy JRP decision to the ABCA, Northback tried a second kick at the can with a judicial review application in King’s Bench. The ABCA, by majority, has rejected this: 2025 ABCA 186 Shd be up on CanLII tomorrow. #abpoli

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.

www.projectalberta.org/ucp_rolling_...

Updated #UCPayToPlay scandal-in-a-tweet:

Premier Smith's former chief of staff allegedly pressured health officials to cut half a billion dollars in contracts to a businessman whose sister was his landlord and who bought them all luxury NHL tickets. And they fired the person ready to reveal it.

Former chief of staff to Alberta Premier lived in home owned by Sam Mraiche’s sister Businessman’s dealings with the provincial health authority are subject to multiple investigations

SCOOP: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's fmr chief of staff lived in a home owned by a sister of Sam Mraiche, a businessman whose dealings w Alberta Health Services are subject to multiple investigations.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... w @tomcardoso.bsky.social @hoserlibrarian.bsky.social

Exceptional speech by the member from Lesser Slave Lake today.
It shouldn’t be the case that MLAs seem to become so much better once they’re kicked out of the UCP, but it does seem to be a pattern that’s held since 2018.
#ableg #abpoli
h/t @asingleton17.bsky.social for clipping it!!