Making my community better one idea at a time • Opinionated Scottish Canadian Geordie • BSc + PhD • #ScienceBitch #cake #greenlineyyc • I block rude people
Calgary, AB
Joined January 2009
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Here is her letter from earlier this year where @ABDanielleSmith is BEGGING the Feds to provide 20,000 immigrants a year till 2026.
Can’t write this sh!t
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In fact, Alberta provides the most public funding of private schools. More than anywhere in Canada at 70% (up from 50%). If the Premier wants to compare our system to others, then she needs to look at provinces who provide 0% funding as well. /9
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Comment on Budget 2024-Alberta is the least funded jurisdiction in Canada, and sure Budget 2024 had a 4.4 % increase but we needed a 13.5% to match the Canadian average. So the 125 mil announced this summer is a drop in the bucket of what is needed to fund our students. /5
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There’s an awful lot of misinformation being spread about the Green Line, so let me lay things out clearly. I know a few critics of this project who could use a refresher.
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There’s the price tag on providing @DevinDVote with the opportunity to grandstand for a couple days about the “Nenshi nightmare” — gotta be one of the most expensive soundbites in Canadian politics in a long time
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1/This is a thread with facts on how the Green Line project was terminated by the Govt of Alberta on Sept 3. No attempt at a negotiation, just a letter pulling their support & funding. The impact is devastating. I’ll lay out how they are ignoring the facts & what it will cost us.
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So, here's the thing. While @ABDanielleSmith says Green Line needs more oversight, the fact is the #greenlineyyc project team was meeting their provincial & federal counterparts on a regular basis so if the premier didn't know what was going on, it's cuz she never bothered to ask
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Yeesh, Danielle Smith wants a boondoggle to connect to a boondoggle in front of another boondoggle then privatize the east/west corridor for the UCP affiliate who wants to operate a line from boondoggle 2 to Banff.
The other entity who plans to use CP lines is Liricon, which would be quite the coincidence if they hadn’t met with Smith and her husband two weeks ago when this crap all started. #Ableg
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@DevinDVote forgot how much of the expensive bits were dictated by the need to do nothing to inconvenience people in cars. We could make the Green Line cheaper if we go full War on Cars. The GL is expensive because cars are winning the war. nitter.cf/kylegolsen/status/1831…
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Just a reminder that Calgary already has LRT tunnels in it's downtown, with the intention of using them in the future. The argument that downtown can't support tunnels doesn't reflect reality.
#yyc #yyccc #ableg
Underground City Hall C-Train youtu.be/V7YBZvhVwgk?si=ZkUd… via @YouTube
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Just remember the rumors that “There’s not going to be rioting in the north,” if we get shafted, have been greatly exaggerated… 😏
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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-updates/f…
#Calgary #yyccc #ableg #abpoli #GreenLineLRT
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It's looking like the 2027 #abpoli provincial election will be a choice between a party leader who spent a decade battling politically motivated delays trying to deliver a generational LRT project or a party leader who gleefully put a bullet in it to try & score political points
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Edited out by @calgaryherald but said by Ralph Klein in 1981:
“The potential hazards of (the province’s) policy are truly frightening insofar as they are handcuffing the fastest growing city in North America in its attempt to deal with growth.”
Sound familiar?
#ableg #yyccc
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Took a stroll up Centre St and along 16 Ave N with some friends of STC yesterday.
It's horrible the kind of neglect we're enabling in such a valuable part of our city.
So many vacant lots, at the whims of political uncertainty. The Green Line should have been here years ago.
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It’s been 18 years since Ralph Klein approved #yycNorthHealth Facility in @NorthernHills yet we’ve never been given a “Pub Night” engagement session and the land still sits empty. Who is advocating for North Calgary?! @AdrianaLaGrange @RajanJSaw @GBrarNDP
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Today @CalgaryChamber,
Smith plans to use the Heritage Savings Fund for "de risking projects" that businesses are "finding difficult to be able to get financing".
She can't keep her hands off the Heritage Fund, she won't be able to keep her hands off an Alberta Pension Fund.
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Critical Update on Water Situation: We have found more areas in need of repair along the water feeder main. This means a longer repair timeframe.
We’ll need to continue reducing our water use for that extended time.
I will continue to share information as I have it.
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Eight years ago, the Alberta NDP began the process of transitioning Alberta to a capacity market, to ensure availability and steady pricing.
In 2019, the UCP reversed that decision, downplaying concerns about price spikes and blackouts.
And here we are.
