I wrote something for @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... #yycbike #yegbike #BikeTO #BikeHFX

SCOOP Alberta's "Compassionate Intervention" drug jails will be located near the existing Spyhill jail in Calgary and near the Alberta Hospital in Edmonton. Eighty-two companies have expressed interest in participating in the $180 million procurement process. 1/ drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-gove...

Beset by scandals, patriotic pushback, and new rivals, Alberta’s UCP wants us to be mad about … bicycle lanes! albertapolitics.ca/2025/08/bese...

We shouldn't. It's the boondoggliest boondoggle in the history of boondoggling #Boondoggliest #CarbonCapture #BigOil #abpoli #cdnpoli #MarkCarney www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/26/o...

Reuters reporting that oil and gas producers in Alberta flared (i.e. burned off excess) natural gas to the tune of 912.7 million cubic metres in 2024. By my math, that would emit about 1.8 megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. Or roughly the equivalent of Alberta's entire cement industry.

And this is the woman who owns the company that wants to mine our eastern slopes.

The Traffic Safety Team is stepping up enforcement this month to reduce vehicle noise and improve quality of life in neighbourhoods across the city. Drivers operating excessively loud or modified vehicles can expect increased monitoring and fines. newsroom.calgary.ca/traffic-safe...

💫 Great video of @jeromyyyc.bsky.social pointing out all the forms of housing he’s pledged to make illegal across Calgary.

🚨 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_...

🧵 The chief of police resigns in Calgary two years before his contract ends, forfeiting >$500,000 in salary, and nobody asks any questions. No news since Saturday, when 100% of stories were reprints of police-friendly public statements. I have a few ideas about what might have happened. 1/

I'm excited to finally drop this: After 20 years of bike commuting, a book, and a YouTube channel, I've compiled everything I've learned about urban cycling into a course to help people overcome the barriers to making the bike a bigger part of their lives. shiftercourses.thinkific.com

Alberta Justice Minister has personal relationship with man whose businesses are tied to AHS investigation www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... Amery and Mraiche are long-time friends and related by marriage. And Amery is involved in the AHS scandal in several ways.

“Newly public documents related to the Alberta Health Services’ (AHS) procurement scandal have laid out a better timeline of what the province knew and when it was informed about the issue.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

Important and thorough article. Great work as always from Michael Beer and the Energy Mix.

Members of Danielle Smith's 🤑Billionaires First municipal political party that supported a massive arena subsidy announcement weeks before the last provincial election now oppose much needed funding for community infrastructure. www.projectcalgary.org/arena_deal_m...

💰Cllr. Sharp and the City are sharing misleading info on the true funding sources for the new arena. www.projectcalgary.org/arena_deal_m...

Danielle Smith from 3 years ago complaining about people contacting her boss to try to get her fired. Oh the hypocrisy. #ableg #abpoli

Climate advocacy groups CAPE and For Our Kids are calling on officials to crack down on the fossil fuel industry's role in K-12 education, suggesting its alleged influence has gone largely unchecked in the absence of robust climate change education.

Once again Councillor Terry Wong and his Billionaires First party are putting wealthy special interests ahead of public good. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/vide...

@naheednenshi.bsky.social is calling for a forensic investigation of Marshall Smith's alleged interference in AHS procurement. A guide on questionable contracts pushed through the Ministry of Mental Health & Addiction while Smith was chief of staff there & since: drugdatadecoded.ca/marshall-smi...

🗑️TAKE ACTION: Tell Danielle Smith to ditch her Trump sympathizer transportation minister waging economic war on Calgary's downtown Green Line, businesses and taxpayers. #GreenLineYYC actionbutton.nationbuilder.com/share/SPK-QE...

🤡COUNCILLOR SONYA SHARP LEADS CAPITULATION ON GREEN LINE www.projectcalgary.org/sharp_leads_... #GreenLineYYC #yyccc #BillionairesFirstyyc

For those trying to understand the incompetence of the UCP Government here's the gist of what happened today: The Province told City Council to vote for the riskier, more expensive $7.5-billion "Dreeshen Drawing" or lose $3-billion in provincial and federal funding.

'Reckless' is how four separate groups describe the province's changes to the downtown alignment for Calgary's $6.25 billion Green Line project. #yyc #yyccc #calgary

But Wong described Chu as "evasive and defensive" and said he made an "attempt to mislead the court." "[It was] clear to me he had an agenda other than testifying openly and truthfully," said Wong. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Tell me more about that cyclist you saw roll thru a stop sign #calgary

🔫Calgary's real estate and development industry has put the finishing bullet in the disastrous Dreeshen-Smith elevated Green Line alignment: 📄"We feel it would be reckless to support the proposed elevated solution in the Beltline and Downtown" ❌Nobody supports the Dreeshen doodle line.

As the Calgary municipal election gets closer, one councillor is bringing up misinformation about the city's climate strategy. We fact checked that false $87 billion dollar claim made by Coun. Dan McLean, and provide context for how that number came to be. livewirecalgary.com/2025/01/22/d...

Albertans have said over and over and over again, "No coal mining in the eastern slopes." The UCP government recently lifted the moratorium on coal mining in our mountains to avoid a lawsuit that they caused because of their own incompetence.

🖍️The AECOM report proves Devin Dreeshen failed to find a better/cheaper Green Line alignment. 🚇 Going underground in the Beltline & Downtown is the only viable option. 🤑The UCP Gov is funding an underground arena for billionaires while denying efficient underground transit for Calgarians.

Prelim Calgary airport rail report reaffirms prior alignment, and city councillor said now it's a matter of prioritizing rail projects. #yyc #calgary #yyccc

💩 Even the Banff Passenger Rail boosters "Friends of CABR" are implying that Devin Dreeshen shat the bed with his crayon map Green Line proposal for elevated alignment through Downtown and Beltline. mailchi.mp/friendsofcab...

Here’s what’s going on with the Green Line. #GreenLineYYC youtu.be/wZEA8REzI7E

🤡Dreeshen had one job and he failed. 🖍️The AECOM report proves the Transportation Minister failed to find a better or cheaper Green Line alignment through Downtown & the Beltline. 🗑️Ditch Deeshen's doodle disaster and build the Green Line underground! projectcalgary.org/dreeshen_fai...

The Alberta government has introduced sweeping restrictions on freedom of information. It's just one part the UCP's more to reshape Alberta in its image and centralize power. #ableg thenarwhal.ca/alberta-foip...

🖍️Devin Dreeshen declared his disastrous crayon drawing the "The best Green Line alignment anyone could develop". 🤡 So when he finally released the AECOM report, why did he redact the "PREFERRED DOWNTOWN OPTION" section unless maybe it says something other than what he's been telling Calgarians?

🥳Thanks to citizen push back, Devin Dreeshen has finally released the "confidential" AECOM report - but it's dead on arrival given that we now know it's an even more costly + risky. Of note, the report fails to contemplate the proposed elevated Banff Passenger Rail alignment.

😱IT GETS WORSE. BNA missed the proposed elevated Banff Passenger Line along CPKC tracks. See revised rendering below. 🤔Maybe one of these should be buried underground?

📋GREEN LINE REPORT CARD⭐️ With all the info and misinformation flying around out there, we decided to set the record straight. The plans put forward by the City of Calgary are the ONLY viable options. Anything else is just a sideshow distraction🤡🎪. 🥋CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER 🥊

‼️DREESHEN'S GREEN LINE PROPOSAL WOULD COST $100s OF MILLIONS OR EVEN BILLIONS MORE THAN CITY'S SHOVEL-READY, UNDERGROUND PLAN www.projectcalgary.org/dreeshen_cra...

To date, there is not a shred of evidence that switching the Green Line from underground to elevated through the Beltline and Downtown would actually save any money for taxpayers. In fact, it might even cost more. livewirecalgary.com/2024/12/17/e...

Is the Alberta Government sharing the secret AEMCOM report with private rail to Banff boosters? t.co/8xnSbZ3VZH

It's a shame that the people who are good at winning elections and the people who are good at governing don't overlap more.

What good is the AEMCOM report if it excludes a long list of things that could potentially wildly increase the cost of the "cheaper" elevated Green Line option? -Potential litigation; -Termination of contracts; -Utility re-re-locations; -Stranded / sunk costs -Delays 🍺 It's amateur hour again.

Councillor Walcott does a great job laying out why the UCP's proposed Green Line alignment will negatively impact Calgary's Beltline and downtown. Taking out the Eau Claire station and elevating the tracks through the Beltline, is a slap in the face to folks downtown. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

📸EXCLUSIVE: Images of the AB Gov's proposed disastrous elevated Green Line alignment through Beltline & Downtown. ➡️ beltlineyyc.ca/elevated_gre... ℹ️The Beltline Neighbourhoods Assoc. has released images of the 10 Ave elevated alignment using imagery from the West LRT. ⚠️WARNING: It's ugly. 🧵..

🖍️ Dude from Innisfail who has possibly never used transit in his life has scribbled a new line in crayon on the map for the Green Line through the Beltline and Downtown Calgary with crayon. 🫢It’s not looking too smart. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Recommendation from UCP committee would exempt political staffers from conflict of interest rules in Alberta. Changes would make it so staffers would not have to disclose gifts like hockey box tickets, among other impacts. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"The gang opposes affordable housing" #yyccc

This morning, Cycle Toronto launched a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Section 7 challenge to the provincial government’s Bill 212. The lawsuit also seeks an immediate injunction to prevent the removal of target bike lanes on Bloor, University, and Yonge. 1/