NEW: City of Calgary data shows city-wide water consumption was at 496M litres on Monday, below the threshold of 500M litres set out by the city during repairs to the Bearspaw feeder main.
This is important reading for those interested in Canadian immigration policy:
- Big cuts to housing support for asylum-seekers (to be paid by municipalities, or many more people will be homeless)
- Big cuts to medical care for asylum-seekers (to be paid by asylum-seekers)
- Much more
Oh I see the caption. It’s from Calgarians for Thoughtful Growth
Wtf this is from the City?
For real this is great, speaking as someone who has gone through the Open Alberta dataset spreadsheets of baby names for the past several years and it was unwieldy!
Phew, the Elizabeths born in 2018 can breathe a sigh of relief as they exist again.
Here are the road closures and detours in effect due to the repairs on the Bearspaw feeder main, according to the City of Calgary.
Though I will say that the principal’s style of dress does determine the office’s general dress code. The current Calgary mayor’s office is much more business formal than the last office.
lol
Sorry couldn’t be me 💅 bsky.app/profile/aman...
She said they were super boring and drab suits and they spent a lot of time out in community so it was a real bummer for this group of 20-something women and they found it challenging to engage with citizens in a casual way to build rapport and trust
I had a convo with someone recently who was a staffer for an Alberta cabinet minister ~15 years ago and she said the minister chose the staffers’ outfits and they had to wear them 🫠
Ward 9 (Councillor Harrison Clark): Chinook LRT Station,
Wednesday, March 11 4:30-6pm
Ward 7 (Councillor Myke Atkinson): Sunnyside LRT Station,
Monday, March 16 4:30-6pm
Ward 4 (Councillor DJ Kelly): Dalhousie LRT Station, Thursday, March 19 4:30-6pm
#YYC #CalgaryTransit #PublicTransit
What you need to know about the 2026 March 23 Public Hearing on Planning Matters
#calgary #yyc
The Centre for Free Expression has done far more legwork, contacting every Alberta school division, asking how many removed books, and sending access to info requests to every division that said they did remove materials. The results they have so far are in this national challenge database #AbEd
Margot and Anne Frank died in Bergen-Belsen as a typhus epidemic killed 17,000 people
Water restrictions begin today, Calgary!
With the Bearspaw South Feeder Main shut down for reinforcement work, we need your help to conserve water - every drop you can save, helps.
Visit calgary.ca/savewater to learn more and stay up to date.
Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.
LA City Council’s City President Marqueece Harris-Dawson says he has been pulled over four times while a member of the council; the most recent was this week. He missed a committee meeting because of the stop, according to him.
Among the questions: “how do you have this vehicle,” according to him.
But… would you maybe change your mind and consider running for mayor?
For real, I am agog at the absolute lack of comms on this.
(Did this weirdly specific yet widely relatable thing happen to me? Hmmmmm)
It’s that time again, #yyc
100%. In my most hopeful and naive moments, I see the work of reconciling and resolving competing needs and wants as the most fulfilling parts of society building. In my less hopeful moments, I want to tell some people to shut up sometimes.
I didn’t know about the former but I want to promote the improv approach to city building: yes and (this is rhetoric I came up with just now haha)
I didn’t know about the former but I want to promote the improv approach to city building: yes and (this is rhetoric I came up with just now haha)
That wind was relentless!
*company with entirely male C-suite who promoted their bro over the women with master’s degrees and told the most senior woman in the office to learn her place* “Happy International Women’s Day to all the strong capable women out there”
The poison oil cloud above Tehran right now - for which there is no end in sight - may be one of the most horrifying things I've seen on TV
