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the creatures, too, must become free.
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Aaron Paquette 🇨🇦
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Now take a referendum, and wrap it in ANOTHER referendum!
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Kathryn Davies
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I was interviewed for this article. I hate to be a Negative Nelly, but there is nothing good coming out of this council on the housing file. There is no plan, it seems to have fallen off the radar completely.
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How Calgary will replace blanket rezoning still unclear, after council's latest housing motion fails | CBC News
After Mayor Jeromy Farkas suggested more aggressive local area plan development could replace blanket rezoning's work to increase housing density, city council voted down a motion to follow through on...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/blanket-rezoning-replacement-unclear-9.7219404
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Brent Toderian
5 days ago
This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via
@carltonreid.com
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Cyclists Break Far Fewer Road Rules Than Motorists, Finds New Video Study
Busting the myth of the "scofflaw cyclist" Danish Road Directorate studies reveal that while 66% of motorists routinely break road traffic laws only 5% of cyclists do so. Law breaking by cyclists is h...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/05/10/cyclists-break-far-fewer-road-rules-than-motorists-finds-new-video-study/
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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ>∿<ₑͤ ∞🌮
10 days ago
we should do communism but call it ai
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Jeremy Appel 🍉
14 days ago
NEW: I wrote about Alberta’s referendum within a referendum for Jacobin.
jacobin.com/2026/05/smit...
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The Outsize Political Power of Canada’s Western Separatists
Only about a quarter of Albertans support independence. But the threat of rupture nevertheless has pushed Canada’s political class toward accommodation with petro-state grievance politics.
https://jacobin.com/2026/05/smith-alberta-separatism-oil-politics
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Peter Norton
14 days ago
In 1923 we knew that the best path to safety was not to rebuild cities for fast driving but to make driving less necessary. In 1923 we knew that the best path to economy was not to make gas cheaper but to make gas less necessary.
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Urban Truth Collective
28 days ago
STUDY: “Motonormativity is a shared bias whereby people judge motorised mobility differently to other comparable topics. This works against societies addressing climate and public health crises effectively.” Via
@ianwalker.bsky.social
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#UrbanTruth
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Why do cars get a free ride? The social-ecological roots of motonormativity
Motonormativity is a shared bias whereby people judge motorised mobility differently to other comparable topics. This works against societies addressi…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378025000172
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Urban Truth Collective
28 days ago
NEW STUDY: Who is the Highway Lobby? “The highway lobby has been shaping transportation policy conversations for decades in its interests.” And they spend MILLIONS buying car dependency to make sure all of us have to spend BILLIONS.
#UrbanTruth
Via the Union of Concerned Scientists
@ucs.org
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The Highway Lobby Spends Millions to Make Sure We Pay Billions
Our car-dependent transportation system is no accident.
https://blog.ucs.org/kshen/the-highway-lobby-spends-millions-to-make-sure-we-pay-billions/
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Richard Warnica
30 days ago
I went home recently to write about Alberta’s separatists. What I found was a movement wildly, dangerously disconnected from reality.
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Richard Warnica: I went home to the heartland of Alberta independence. Even after covering Donald Trump for 10 years, I was still terrified by what I found
Independence movement eerily reminiscent of Trump's America.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/im-an-albertan-whos-been-covering-donald-trump-for-10-years-i-went-home-to-write-about-the-independence-movement-i-was-terrified-by-what-i-saw/article_2a003f93-2769-4509-97bd-5b03e841c966.html
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Brent Toderian
about 1 month ago
If you care about Canadian cities providing more badly needed housing choices, AND not cheating Federal funding programs, read this. I supported Federal funding for cities doing good housing moves. But Feds NEED to send the message that cities gaming the system “need not apply” for future funding.
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Calgary rolled back its permissive zoning. Will it have to pay Ottawa back?
Ottawa’s flagship housing program was designed to reward cities for making it easier to build homes. Calgary’s decision to accept the majority of its funding before reversing a major zoning reform put...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/06/news/calgary-zoning-ottawa-housing-accelerator-fund?nih=ktmtIBdlo62nDiZf518giy73ZYkR1k03u6AZW7dNaW8
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Serene Yew
about 1 month ago
Tuesday at Calgary's Executive Committee: two motions to rescind the 2021 climate emergency declaration. It costs $2.20/Calgarian/year, has helped secure $580M+ in federal & provincial grants, and joins 2,300+ governments worldwide. Sources + context:
calgarylens.ca/climate
#yyc
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What Calgary's climate emergency declaration directed | calgarylens
Every directive Council attached to its November 2021 climate emergency declaration (EC2021-1525) and the December 2021 accountability addendum (EC2021-1698), in plain language, with links back to the...
https://calgarylens.ca/climate
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honey I doxxed the province
about 1 month ago
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Jesse Hawken
about 1 month ago
A SCANNER DARKLY (Linklater, 2006)
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Canada’s housing crisis is eroding life satisfaction among young adults across the country, with one in five reporting shelter insecurity
#yyc
@jeromyyyc.bsky.social
nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
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Canada's housing crisis is dragging life satisfaction down among young adults
Dissatisfaction with housing affordability has risen across all age groups, but young adults are disproportionately affected.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadas-housing-crisis-is-dragging-life-satisfaction-down-among-young-adults?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=NP_social
about 1 month ago
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Ted McCoy 🖖
about 1 month ago
need the city to produce a little infographic that we can send to our older neighbours to help them understand they do not own the street parking spots in front of their house
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[sending out a newsletter blast to my list urging everyone to remember how democracy works] this should do the trick
about 1 month ago
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Krista L. Li
about 1 month ago
I decided to dig around a little re: Mayor Farkas’ Advisory council. Heather Forsyth, one of the appointees, has some incredibly problematic views. Her socials are filled with anti-trans sentiment. Is this who
@jeromyyyc.bsky.social
wants advising him? Does he support this? 😬
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how long until Danielle Smith does this
about 1 month ago
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Carl Meyer
about 1 month ago
When Canadians talk about affordability, the discussion often revolves around the cost of fuel. While we pay for gasoline and diesel with our credit cards, in study after study, scientists have shown we also pay with our health. We should talk about it more.
thenarwhal.ca/climate-chan...
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How Canadians pay for fossil fuels with our bodies | The Narwhal
The affordability crisis brings about talk of the price at the gas pump, but more Canadians are realizing the cost climate change is taking on our health
https://thenarwhal.ca/climate-change-costs-health-care/
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we are mere months away from An Act to Remove Politics and Ideology from the Legislature
about 2 months ago
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I want to draw a mustache on justin havre’s silly billboard face
about 2 months ago
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Jacob Loo Dawang
about 2 months ago
NEW BLOG POST Edmonton's housing momentum didn't stop at the end of 2025. Q1 2026 data is in and Edmonton is on track for another strong year of homebuilding in the places people want to live. The rowhome revolution continues. 🧵
#yeg
#yegcc
#yimby
jacobdawang.com/blog/2026/q1-building-permits/
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2026 Q1 Edmonton building permit report – Jacob Dawang
A first look at 2026 building permits through Q1, tracking whether Edmonton will continue the record-breaking momentum of 2025.
https://jacobdawang.com/blog/2026/q1-building-permits/
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I think
@naheednenshi.bsky.social
should give us a detailed video explaining the intricacies of the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem
#geography
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modifia...
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Modifiable areal unit problem - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modifiable_areal_unit_problem
about 2 months ago
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Left Wexit
over 1 year ago
I am the average American swing voter. I have not made up my mind which candidate will make it cheaper to idle in the drive through.
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Library and Archives Canada
2 months ago
A simple message on
#WorldHealthDay
: history shows that vaccines work. In this blog, we examine anti-vaccination propaganda from 1920:
thediscoverblog.com/2021/05/31/a...
Reading historical anti-vaccine propaganda with a critical eye can help “inoculate” against
#Disinformation
today.
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More Neighbours Calgary
2 months ago
Calgarians have spoken! (Well, 411 of them.) Here's what we have to say about the public hearing on repealing rezoning.
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What We Heard at Calgary’s Rezoning Hearings
Evenly Split on Repeal, United on the Need for More Housing
https://moreneighbourscalgary.substack.com/p/what-we-heard-at-calgarys-rezoning
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imagining deploying this on Deerfoot Trail so that I can take a leisurely stroll across eight lanes of traffic
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2 months ago
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Marcello Di Cintio
2 months ago
Alberta separatism isn’t motivated by equalization policies, Senate seats, carbon taxes or oil. These tired complaints may ride shotgun on independence, but bigotry drives the truck.
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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Among the Separatists | The Tyee
I wanted to learn the true target of their angry dreams. What I heard made me tremble for the Alberta I love.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/04/01/Among_Separatists/
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the funniest thing about Farkas doing a whole song and dance about keeping the municipal tax increase low (at 1.6%) is that the UCP decided to just fill the room and throw an extra 6.5% in education property tax on top of that.
calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
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Property tax increase finalized at 8.1 per cent for Calgary homeowners
Calgary homeowners can expect to see an 8.1 per cent hike to property taxes in May following city council's finalization Tuesday afternoon.
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/property-tax-increase-finalized-8-1-per-cent-calgary-homeowners
2 months ago
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Brent Toderian
2 months ago
The Universal Law Of Cities — The more car-friendly a place is, the shittier it is to be there. Via
#NotJustBikes
. Watch his new video below.
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Mel Woods
2 months ago
To see and experience the broad spectrum that transness presents is to see what is possible for ourselves. Witnessing that in practice benefits everyone. Trans people present the possibility of a better life. And that extends beyond literal transness.
xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
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Trans visibility promises a better world. That’s why it’s under attack | Xtra Magazine
Trans Day of Visibility is a call to action reminding us that other things in our world can change for the better too
https://xtramagazine.com/power/politics/trans-day-of-visibility-2026-281264
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Stephen Judkins
2 months ago
That's right
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LiveWire Calgary
2 months ago
Making generational changes to things like planning and development can be politically costly, no matter how much sense it might make, writes Courtney Walcott, in his latest column for LWC.
#yyc
#calgary
#yyccc
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Walcott: On rezoning, building for the future is politically costly - LiveWire Calgary
It comes at great political cost to be an elected official who makes a choice that prioritizes future generations in the face of what can feel like overwhelming opposition demanding their eyes turn…
https://buff.ly/xuthJIY
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The Beaverton
2 months ago
Editorial: Here’s why Avi Lewis is the wrong choice to lead the NDP – by a centrist Liberal
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Editorial: Here's why Avi Lewis is the wrong choice to lead the NDP - by a centrist Liberal
By Martin Kearns, man who has never voted NDP once in his life This weekend the NDP chose Avi Lewis as their leader. And as much as it pains me, a Liberal commentator who loves Mark Carney and would n...
https://thebeaverton.com/2026/03/editorial-heres-why-avi-lewis-is-the-wrong-choice-to-lead-the-ndp-by-a-centrist-liberal/
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part of politics is simply deciding that your opponents are stupid, selfish and wrong and must be defeated for the greater good of society. no need to compromise or hold their hand.
2 months ago
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Harsha Walia
2 months ago
The immediate status quo, centrist attacks on Avi Lewis are precisely why he is effective and needed. In face of growing right wing escalation, an unbashadely left opposition that is anti capitalist & internationalist is both principled *and* realistic.
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2 months ago
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Robson Fletcher
2 months ago
Alberta's new electoral boundary recommendations would see the two biggest cities have less representation in the legislature, per person, compared to the provincial average: Edmonton: 5.7% more people per MLA Calgary: 2.6% more people per MLA Rest of Alberta: 4.8% fewer people per MLA
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Oh The Urbanity!
3 months ago
Funny to think that some places responded to the 1970s oil crisis by supporting alternatives to driving. While others decided that they’re not going to allow pesky things like “red lights” or “pedestrians” slow drivers down and waste precious gas.
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Sean Marshall
3 months ago
Yikes
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on a packed ctrain delayed by 40 minutes in the middle of rush hour but really thankful that
@jeromyyyc.bsky.social
kept the property tax increase to merely 1.6%
#worthit
3 months ago
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the Cathy Spoule email and the Shannon Phillips faux-victim video have been the most disgusting parts of the Heather McPherson leadership campaign and the NDP leadership race generally
3 months ago
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The new North Hill co-op rocks!!
3 months ago
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More Neighbours Calgary
3 months ago
“Repeal and replace” was a campaign commitment. Making housing more affordable was the goal. It’s time for Mayor Farkas to stand by that commitment, or admit it was never the plan at all.
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Perspectives: On housing, Mayor Farkas promised a plan and hasn’t delivered - LiveWire Calgary
Believe it or not, Mayor Jeromy Farkas is a member of the More Neighbours Calgary community. During the campaign, he regularly engaged with members on housing and city issues. One phrase came up again...
https://livewirecalgary.com/2026/03/03/perspectives-on-housing-mayor-farkas-promised-a-plan-and-hasnt-delivered/
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Calgary Climate Hub
3 months ago
Once wetlands are gone, they are gone forever. Urban
#sprawl
has caused these natural spaces to disappear permanently and we have to stop it. Tell City Council to protect our wetlands and say no to sprawl:
albertatalks.ca/defend
#yyc
#yyccc
#Density
#Housing
#Upzoning
#ClimateChange
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Stop Sprawl » Alberta Talks
For years, the City Council chose to sprawl instead of investing in existing neighbourhoods. Now, they are planning changes that will make urban sprawl worse. They are hosting a public hearing before ...
https://albertatalks.ca/defend
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Rory White
3 months ago
The Media Ecosystem Observatory has found that just 100 accounts in Canada are responsible for 68% of posts promoting conspiracy theories. But they are having an outsized impact on local governments. Read my latest:
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/n...
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One hundred accounts are behind the majority of conspiracy theory content in Canada
Researchers analyzed more than 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada and found that 87 per cent of conspiratorial claims come from influencers, with just 100 users responsible for near...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/news/conspiracy-content-report-canada
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being a millennial means having multiple degrees in departments that don't exist anymore
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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U of C folding classics, religion department as school faces multimillion-dollar budget shortfall | CBC News
The University of Calgary is shuttering at least one department in its faculty of arts and scaling back on hiring as the school grapples with a multimillion-dollar budget deficit.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/university-of-calgary-budget-department-cuts-9.7098214
4 months ago
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The Progress Report
4 months ago
The political discourse in Alberta may soon be the foulest it's been in years, as the UCP and its allies gear up for a newly-announced referendum campaign against immigrants.
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Premier's address sets the stage for a nasty, lie-filled year
Politics in Alberta are going to get nasty this year, argues Jim Storrie, as the Premier sets out to convince us all to believe two big lies about immigration.
https://www.theprogressreport.ca/smith-immigration-address-and-referendum
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Duane Bratt🇨🇦
4 months ago
One of the worst episodes of Canada's past was the Chinese Head Tax. Something that the Harper government eventually apologized for and provide compensation. And she wants to bring it back!
thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/c...
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Chinese Head Tax in Canada
The Chinese head tax was enacted to restrict immigration after Chinese labour was no longer needed to build the Canadian Pacific Railway. Between 1885 and 192...
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/chinese-head-tax-in-canada
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Ted McCoy 🖖
4 months ago
The UCP has been in power for 51 of the last 55 years but according to Danielle Smith it's the family who arrived six months ago that is wrecking the province.
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