Say what you want about wanting to preserve neighbourhood character, but this isn't doing it. They're tearing down the old houses and building large tall buildings anyway, but now only for one rich family at a time instead of 2 or 4 of them. #calgary

1950s bungalow with development sign out front

The zoning repeal seems to already be affecting development. Last year it was mostly duplexes, 4-plexes, and other missing middle housing. Now it's all new singles (at 1.5MM+ a pop). #yyc

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"She is the most dangerous politician in Canada, launching an agenda not only of fear and greed, but one that seeks to undermine the country"

"It is worse than a secessionist agenda, it is an agenda to make Canada a dysfunctional confederacy of selfish, inward-looking, disaggregated provinces"

Braid: Poll shows exodus from separate Alberta would make Quebec flight look minor Braid: Poll shows exodus from separate Alberta would make Quebec flight look minor Angus Reid poll shows many Albertans who are againt the separation will leave the province if it happens Author of…

Imagine what that would mean to the price of your house. Several houses on every block would be listed for sale.

Federally employed Albertans would have to relocate. That’s your family member, your neighbour, your kid’s coach.

#ForeverCanadian
#ableg

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Tumbler Ridge school shooting: 10 dead including shooter, 25 injured | Globalnews.ca At least nine people were killed in a shooting spree Tuesday afternoon that included a school in British Columbia's Peace region, in which the suspected shooter also ended up dead.

Tumbler Ridge school shooting: 10 dead including shooter, 25 injured

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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:

Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down

Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged

Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

Petition e-7148 - Petitions

Bruce Fanjoy has launched a petition to require all federal party leaders to obtain and maintain top security clearance.

It's open for a couple of months.
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France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US LONDON (AP) — In France, civil servants will ditch Zoom and Teams for a homegrown video conference system. Soldiers in Austria are using open source office software to write reports

Time to revive WordPerfect too? 😀
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a black speaker is sitting on the floor next to a wall Alt: Man sitting in front of speaker and getting blown away

Perhaps the ancient version of this?

Now I want to get brunch at Galaxie haha

Laughed at the questionable geography like downtown Banff and Canmore filling in for downtown Calgary (and who walks from Baker Park to Heritage Park or Crossroads Market to Stephen Ave??) But that's the nature of the movie biz

Watching Can This Love Be Translated (a Korean drama on Netflix). They filmed 3 episodes here in Calgary and area, and it's fun seeing home getting the K-drama glow-up :).

Masked federal agents removing crates of belongings from the ICE shooter's home

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers.

Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

Alberta can no longer be considered a safe place to invest, and the reason can be summed up in two words: ‘Danielle Smith’ - Alberta Politics Compared to Venezuelan oilsands crude, according to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Canadian oil is cheaper, cleaner, and “clearly low risk.” “Canadian oil will be competitive because it is low-risk, clea...

Alberta can no longer be considered a safe place to invest, and the reason can be summed up in two words: ‘Danielle Smith’ albertapolitics.ca/2026/01/albe... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #geopolitics

Anyone who doubts an Alberta Police Force would be closer to ICE than the RCMP needs to pay closer attention to detail. And motive.

Deadly Minneapolis Encounter Is the 9th ICE Shooting Since September

This is the ninth shooting by ICE since September (I did not know that). All of them were into vehicles.

Obey or die

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

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NEW: 16 Avenue is shut down between Sarcee Trail and 49 Street NW due to a significant water main break. Awaiting more details from the City of Calgary.

WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Is it just me or does the FIFA "peace prize" look like the poster for a zombie movie??

HK: Tai Po blaze death toll rises to 128, while 200 residents still missing The death toll from the massive fire in Tai Po’s Wang Fuk Court has risen to 128, while around 200 residents are still unaccounted for, Hong Kong authorities have said

The death toll from the massive fire in Tai Po’s Wang Fuk Court has risen to 128, while around 200 residents are still unaccounted for, Hong Kong authorities have said In full: buff.ly/TWGR3io

So scary, my great-aunt used to live in this district in a building very much like these.

Death toll in Hong Kong high-rise fire rises to 36, with 279 reported missing Hong Kong leader John Lee has said 36 people were reported killed in the fire that spread through a dense high-rise residential housing complex Wednesday. He said another 279 people were reported miss...

The images are apocalyptic

Dozens killed in Hong Kong high-rise residential fire

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Guelph, Ontario (a small city near Toronto) votes against providing cyclists the same basic winter services that are provided to drivers and pedestrians.

Oh wow I thought Banff admission was expensive...

In its haste, the new city council seems to have forgotten one of the big reasons for the original push to implement blanket rezoning...

$129M in federal housing money frozen as Calgary reconsiders rezoning A large chunk of federal housing funding earmarked for Calgary is being paused because of the city’s plan to repeal its rezoning bylaw.

If Calgary city council repeals blanket rezoning, it could lose millions in federal money, the CMHC says #yyc www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...