Cleaning my office today as I listen to #yyccc executive committee. "Cleaning"—excavating is more like it. There is the election layer of stuff and then, below that, the Pop-Up Press layer. Couldn't handle it any longer. Feels good to get somewhat organized
“A lot of politicians during Black History Month are talking about John Ware and Violet King and holding up these people as examples of Black excellence. If they are also participating in anti-immigrant rhetoric today, their words of praise for the legacies of previous immigrants ring hollow.”
This is neat. Bashir Mohamed's 2018 Sprawl article about Charles Daniels being denied his seat at the Grand Theatre has led to a permanent memorial honouring his legacy. Less neat: "The rhetoric of today resembles the rhetoric of those years."
Extra sloppy is right.
These slop accounts are garbage. City council did NOT extend transfer window. They asked admin to start work on it + report back in Apr for council to decide. Accounts like these scrape headlines, have 100,000+ followers & often get it wrong. Meanwhile legit news orgs are banned by Meta. 🤦🏻♂️ #yyccc
Alberta is exhausting.
Reading!
It's really important to always have a good novel going
I gotta stop loading my Kobo with articles about AI to read at night
Spent World Radio Day making radio. New Sprawlcast episode drops tomorrow (Saturday)! 📻
Someone needs to level with Calgarians about how we can't sprawl endlessly, AND keep taxes low, AND maintain infrastructure and services.
I feel like I have written that story 100 times in many different ways! 😉
Haha that is not a bad descriptor for many a #yyccc meeting! Will take a look. And will definitely be revisiting this meeting after - very much in The Sprawl's wheelhouse!
There's a suuuuuper interesting #yyccc infrastructure committee meeting happening right now, on inf and growth, while I scramble to write a Sprawlcast on a completely separate subject. Torn!!!!
Thanks for this @klaszus.bsky.social. Seeing Calgarians lamenting these Olympics is maddening because it was known in 2018 that we couldn't afford it. "The bulk of those savings was found in security and essential services". Paris spent $2.32B on security in 2024. The 2018 entire estimate was $4.6B.
You're welcome!
Our man with a memory & the tapes, @klaszus.bsky.social reminds us why the 2026 Winter Olympics are in Milan and not in Calgary with the actual words from all the players, the details of the various promises, and many presumptions that wouldn't let Calgary own the podium.
I occasionally get grief for still calling it tape ("it's digital, there's no tape!") and so I am thrilled you said "tapes." 😄
New comic in The Sprawl by @calgaryhester.bsky.social, about her long-forgotten artistic contribution to Calgary's 1988 Olympics!
The Calgary skyline at night, with the Olympic torch burning atop the Calgary Tower
The beacons are lit! 🔥
Dammit, I wrote a good headline this aft and now I have to rise to meet it. That happens sometimes! Gotta deliver on what the headline promises.
Cartoon on Washington Post‘s mass layoffs
Screenshot of Mayor Jeromy Farkas being interviewed by Jeremy Klaszus
Plugging away at new Sprawlcast. And comics series—and more. Excited for The Sprawl's new edition, which kicks off this weekend!
A bleak day in the news biz. Support local journalism, folks. @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social and @livewirecalgary.bsky.social are out here working hard for Calgarians. It's easy to take local journalism for granted but I urge you: please don't.
We need to find a way to tell the youths about alt-weeklies so they restart them
Beautiful!
These grey January days, man.
If I'm being honest, the collapse of the post-Cold War international order and the violent occupation of an American city are making it difficult for me to concentrate on housing policy.
A cargo e-trike with a printing press inside - at a busy community block party
Had a dream last night that I took out The Sprawl's Pop-Up Press. Twas a nightmare. Part of the front wheel fell off. I took it into a downtown building (why? dunno) and got stuck in there—couldn't get out. Then woke up.
The Pop-Up Press is in hibernation for the winter but will return in spring!
Glad I'm not the only one wondering...
