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Same. I'm still a bit ragey almost 24 hours later. What a stupid waste of time and energy and resources.

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Phew, that makes me feel better.

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Everything about this process is dreadful

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Turns our there is a second instruction page that makes more sense. Crisis averted! NO TO THE NINE EVERYONE!

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 03/10/2026

Ok help! Do I fold the ballot in half like the instructions say? Or do I follow the folding instructions on the back of the ballot? WHY IS THIS SO HARD?!?!

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“Voters deserve to know the values driving our housing policy. How much housing have we sacrificed, and how many music schools, parks, and other public amenities have we left on the table to maintain the character of low-density neighborhoods?”

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

North Americans manifest the Freudian death drive in two places most acutely: transportation and housing politics.

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Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh hahaha the church of my childhood did this whenever halloween fell on a Sunday. I had forgotten about that. As a non-religious adult it now seems really odd.

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Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thinking of buying an e-bike on Amazon, good idea or bad?

Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pro-tip: don’t buy your shit at Amazon, no matter how convenient it is

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Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We wouldn’t be dealing with the current watermain costs if previous councils had just been willing to spend on maintenance. It’s an inter-generational dine and dash. My kids are losing out on so much by growing up in a city that can’t afford to invest in its residents.

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Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Apropos of relatively little, It’s been a while since I posted this…

Venn diagram showing that the overlap of stable services and low density and low taxes does not exist.

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Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m just not sure that subtly encouraging Albertans to self-bankrupt is sound economic policy. Anything to avoid raising taxes I guess.

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Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Is this good? Is it real? I can’t tell anymore…

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Property and land value taxes are great because they're largely inescapable. *hand to earpiece* Except that municipalities will basically kill themselves trying to break the laws of thermodynamics trying to achieve a state of No Tax, Only Spend.

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 25/09/2026

bizarre to me that so much reporting on housing fails to interrogate the assumptions that homeowners (1) should always get to approve of changes to their neighbourhood (2) should be protected by government from any possible decline in property values www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

cbc.ca

Toronto needs more homes. These neighbours say they're paying the price | CBC News

An elderly downtown couple says they’re shocked and upset that the city has approved a duplex next door to their three-story Victorian home that they say will tower metres above their chimney and rend...

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Oh yeah, they staged a coup and I was a neighbourhood pariah for a couple of years. Banff Trail isn't the only CA that has seen major turnover due to development though... I'd love to see the city take CAs out of the public engagement equation.

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It had more to do with the ones on the south side, which are as yet unbuilt. The one on the north side was only built because it’s not part of the restrictive covenant. Litigation on the covenant sucked up enough money and time that the ones on the south side were no longer economically viable.

The battle of Banff Trail | The Sprawl

If you want to learn more about the Banff Trail Community Association Planning and Development Committee’s history of drama, @jeremy did a deep dive a few years ago

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A struggle over transit-oriented development.

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I’d love to see my neighbourhood focus on welcoming new people, making space for everyone, rather than working together to keep people out.

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For a few years Banff Trail has not had a development committee, and it’s been nice. The CA focused on social events and the garden plots. Planning has been divisive and rancorous in this neighbourhood before, and likely will be again.

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They’re not wrong, community association input carries weight with the city. But should it? There are less than 25 people at this meeting, a handful want to use the CA to advance an anti-development agenda. This is hardly representative.

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I’m at the AGM for the Banff Trail Community Association, where a small group of residents have arrived in the hope of forming a planning and development committee. They’ve been writing letters opposing development for a year and a half, but they want the weight of the CA behind their positions.

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Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anti-vaxx level of willful ignorance.

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Great news for neo-malthusians everywhere!

Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yeah the last part is what we’re not talking about enough. The costs of nimbyism do reach into the billions, and no one seems interested in connecting those dots.

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Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Classic Canadian shooting-ourselves-in-the-foot-for-single-detached-only-zoning

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Kathryn Davies @kaphryn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Nah, it’s an unpaid internship. They can afford to do it because their parents pay their rent