This is why housing advocacy is driven largely by people who just want to be able to ride their bikes & get places on the bus. Once you start looking for ways to make transportation better, you realize that it's land use holding us back. And then you start spending all your free time at city hall.

This would have been my local library branch. Walkable and bikeable. And while I am sad about its disappearance, I had fun digging into this bit of local Calgary history! #yycbike #yyccc

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

Truly, parking deranges.

I regret to inform y'all that Hans Zimmer fuckin sucks.

Who wasn’t heard at the public hearing on citywide rezoning? Turns out there’s data for that. livewirecalgary.com/2026/04/09/p...

Well... we've completed the FA stage. When does FO land? #yyccc

So far, I'm seeing a catastrophic failure in leadership at city hall. #Housing Repeal of the 2024 changes to zoning — and returning to 60%+ of my city being single family homes and *only* single family homes is horrifying. Banning building homes is not a strategy, #yyccc. #yyc

The promise Mayor Farkas and team made to Calgarians on the campaign trail was repeal and replace. And no repeal before a replacement plan was determined. This is a promise made but not kept. #yyccc #yyc

“I’ve never seen an investigation completed within a year of the commission of an offence. It would be extremely difficult to imagine an acceptable rationale for such a short time period. Twelve months from the commission of an offence – it’s almost unimaginable to think that it can be done.”

Education property taxes are in the news, so here are some charts. Calgary now provides ~35% of the provincial share of property taxes collected for education. Across the board, Albertans have seen 3 years of big increases to their taxes after a period of flat and even declining tax collection.

How many thousands of people are gonna get charged $70 a month because they didn't read to the third paragraph of this fucking email

Even setting aside the implicit false equivalence of having a single shade of red and blue, the fact that Portnoy/Barstool and Russia Today are classified as neutral makes me think the median sentiment is to the right of Strom Thurmond.

There's something a bit poignant about a Bluetooth device failing to connect to another device right next to it when they're the only Bluetooth devices for hundreds of thousands of kilometres around.

"Communities should have a voice. But the current allocation of power allows a narrow set of residents to impose very large costs on outsiders: younger households, renters, immigrants, employers, would-be residents and the wider provincial and national economies."

not to downplay the severity of what's cominb but the entire fall campaign of just executing boats full of civilians in the caribbean was a screaming klaxon that illegality of the order is no obstacle for Hegseth's Department of Warcrimes

PSA for Canadians trying to do the math on EV « fuel » costs: Take your per kWh electricity cost and *double* it. That’s your « effective gas price » in $/L Eg. $0.15/kWh = $0.30/L effective gas price Compare to this in Vancouver right now… Yup, ICE currently 7x the cost.

I make a real effort to not stray into hyperbole when I write about Alberta politics, but I don’t believe it is an exaggeration to describe the minority report as gerrymandering. daveberta.substack.com/p/the-good-t...

I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact

Reminder: including alt-text on your images is helpful in many ways! It increases accessibility, can add context/detail, makes search more effective, & can improve your reach (a lot of us won’t re-share images without alt-text). If you set it as required in accessibility settings, you can’t forget!

An invitation to democratic backsliding? open.substack.com/pub/lisayoun... Wise words from @jlisayoung.bsky.social

Attention Calgary: if we make it harder to build housing and go back on our signed agreements with the feds, 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸. #yyc #yyccc #Housing #cdnpoli See Charlottetown, Markham, and Miramichi, from today: www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/media-newsro...

The way to lower energy prices is to electrify everything. - The way to lower energy prices is to electrify everything. - The way to lower energy prices is to electrify everything. - The way to lower energy prices is to electrify everything. - The way to lower ene... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

From Kyle Hutton on his Substack "I have done a transposition of the commission minority’s (aka UCP members) very blatant, very obviously gerrymandered cheater map done by cheats." bluntobjects.substack.com/p/the-would-...

Alberta's government is one of our nation's great shames

My latest on the state of Alberta democracy, where the UCP government seems intent on choosing their voters rather than the other way around. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

The UCP’s “won’t anyone think of the children” book ban of sexual content from public and school libraries is a policy built fo 1956, not 2026 when many kids carry internet-accessing mobile phones with them every day. This is a culture war fabricated crisis. edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

Canadians want governments that respect our rights & freedoms. In Alberta, the TBA & #UCP are an organized movement made up of Christian nationalists & separatists. #Cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg #Alberta #UCPCorruption #Project2025 #CPC #ABEd #Education #UCPFacists #DanielleSmithIsASeparatist #CanadaSky

Not one word about provincial funding. Not a perp about high school grade inflation. Nope it is all on us macleans.ca/education/st...

🚨A STREETCAR with a PRESERVED surface right of way is costing MORE per kilometre than the MOST COMPLEX railway projects in the WORLD. 🚨 We’re getting so little value for money in the English-speaking world that soon even the simplest of projects will be too expensive!

It's like Squid Game, but worse.

Here is Nenshi’s out with a redirect: “We work for Albertans, unlike Smith, who seems to be at the beck and call of Trump or whichever Saudi Arabian royal who sends a plane for her this week.”

*Lewis wins* Nenshi: Even though Lewis was elected, we still like pipelines! Smith: they say they like pipelines but they don’t because Lewis is an eco-socialist And here is where I point out: automatically accepting the premise of your enemy’s argument before they even make it is a gift to them

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

Right-NIMBYism is the generally correct belief that you can keep your city exclusive by blocking new housing. Left-NIMBYism is the mistaken idea that you can keep your city affordable and attainable by blocking new housing.

1. Here’s a thread on #NIMBY (“not in my backyard”) and the challenges of change in cities: First off, although it might feel that way, NIMBY isn’t unique to your city, and it’s (probably) not worse in your city than anywhere else. It’s also not surprising, since it’s largely about human nature.

Been thinking about it since I saw JK Rowling posted this yesterday about the IOC's new policy, calling Imane Khelif a man. Imane Khelif was born female. She was raised as a girl. Her original birth certificate says female. She's always been a woman. But sure. "Men punching women."

The more I look at this, the more I’m just gobsmacked at how a single post can embody both misogyny and trans misogyny simultaneously. A great example of how transphobia hurts all women.

“When Smith says Albertans wanted more schools and that is why the property tax went up, she is conflating two entirely separate budget streams to justify a recurring operating tax increase with a one-time capital investment story. “ We really are upstairs Texas.

A quarter of charts that show market absorption of new homes of different build forms for Calgary at price points.

Generally follow a strict rule of not sharing screenshots from the bad place but this is good enough to make an exception. (even chance the reply is a joke rather than serious, but the joke is a good one so works regardless)

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Yes, @ereguly.bsky.social, yes. 💥

This is so wrong! Mike Ellis claims people use drugs because they want a more toxic supply. That’s misinformed. The unregulated supply is dangerous due to unpredictability, not desire. People use despite risk, not BECAUSE of it. This talk fuels stigma and fear and distracts from real solutions.

Re-upping the criticisms of the data the UCP used to justify their decision to close the Calgary and Lethbridge SCS. This looks to be an instance if decision-based evidence making. If we care about *all* Calgarians, we have a duty to look at this critically #yyccc #yyc rdnewsnow.com/2026/03/14/s...

My latest: Alberta’s Separatists Are Chasing a Total Cowboy Fantasy thewalrus.ca/albertas-sep... via @thewalrus.ca Let's be honest, much of the separatist agenda is built around anti-immigrant lies & regressive "cowboy" myths. To call this language a dog whistle is an insult to dog whistles.

I was a commissioner with the Calgary Police Commission for 4 years, starting in 2020. I sat in hundreds of hours of meetings. In these oversight and governance meetings, I asked questions to police officers. They would often lie in their responses to me, as a regular practice. 1/

We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the pressing urgencies of the great cause of freedom … a time like this demands great leaders. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. #MLK

Heather went through shite. I went through shite. Sadly if you talk to strong intersectional women trying to make changes, our story is the same. And that includes some white man coming along stealing the narrative

My day got eaten by bullshit politics, though my intention when I opened social media this AM was to post about #LongCovidAwarenessDay. If you are struggling, I want to share with you what has helped me over the past year (I lived with it for 2 years before I realized how much I was deteriorating)