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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Alberta Government is hellbent on repeating the mistakes of Memphis to allow big tech billionaires to build massive polluting, resource-sucking data centres free any regulation or oversight. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Big Tech and Big Oil have fused into an entity we might think of as Fossil Tech
With dizzying speed, Silicon Valley’s tech barons have tossed out their climate idealism
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 11/09/2026
SCOOP: A leaked document indicates Alberta is considering rewriting laws, creating new Crown corporations to take over the natural gas system and build new gas pipelines and taking on costly legal battles — in large part so AI data centres can have access to power, @drewanderson.bsky.social reports.
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Leaked doc suggests Alberta has sprawling plans to pave the way for AI data centres, more oil production
Rewriting laws, creating Crown corporations that could rival TC Energy, building new natural gas pipelines and increasing prices for consumers: what a leaked document says about Alberta’s AI data centre and oil push
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 12/09/2026
A leaked document obtained by @drewanderson.bsky.social has led to political backlash in Alberta over moves the doc says could raise electricity and gas prices. It's all to spur data centre and oil & gas growth. Read more, and see excerpts from the document, here: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oppo...
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Alberta’s alleged push for more AI data centres, oil and gas, sparks outrage | The Narwhal
‘For her foreign billionaire friends’: Opposition leader accuses Danielle Smith of possibly raising energy bills for AI data centres. Here’s a peek at the leaked doc he’s talking about
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
🚰 The following City Councillors recently voted to cut $9M in one-time climate and environment operating expenses, including water conservation efforts. (Tyers, Wyness, Dhaliwal, Pantazopoulos, Chabot, Ward, Jamieson, McLean, Johnston) #yyccc #yyc www.projectcalgary.org/budget_2026_...
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Cailynn Klingbeil @cailynn.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I wrote something for @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... #yycbike #yegbike #BikeTO #BikeHFX
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Opinion: The premiers are using bike lanes as a political scapegoat
Safe cycling infrastructure saves lives, but sadly, many politicians are ignoring the facts
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 08/08/2025
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...
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Alberta government reveals drug jail locations in procurement document
The Alberta government has issued a request for interested parties to participate in the procurement process for two forced abstinence detention facilities, to be located in northwest Calgary and nort...
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David J. Climenhaga @djclimenhaga.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Beset by scandals, patriotic pushback, and new rivals, Alberta’s UCP wants us to be mad about … bicycle lanes! albertapolitics.ca/2025/08/bese...
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Beset by scandals, patriotic pushback, and new rivals, Alberta’s UCP wants us to be mad about … bicycle lanes!  - Alberta Politics
Beset by allegations of health care contracting corruption, international coverage of a self-inflicted measles epidemic, anger at municipal political parties nobody wants, increasingly aggressive push...
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Bentley ****TALK CLIMATE**** @bigclimate.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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...
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If oil giants are reluctant to invest in carbon capture, why should taxpayers?
The fact that oil companies are reluctant to invest in their own giant carbon reduction projects speaks volumes about how they view their longevity. If anyone understands the economics of peak oil, it...
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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 25/06/2025
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.
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Exclusive: Alberta blew past gas flaring ceiling in 2024 as province eliminates limit
Energy producers in Alberta, Canada's top oil-producing province, blew past the province's self-imposed limit on annual natural gas flaring in 2024 for a second year in a row, Reuters calculations show.
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AB Garden Girl 🇨🇦 @ab-garden-girl.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
And this is the woman who owns the company that wants to mine our eastern slopes.
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Courtney Walcott @cwalcottyyc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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...
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Traffic Safety Team cracks down on noisy vehicles this summer
The City of Calgary’s 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 lou...
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Jeromy Farkas' campaign pledge to ban townhomes, row homes and duplexes citywide suggests that his last four years may have been less of a metamorphosis than advertised and more of a scripted political rebranding exercise. www.projectcalgary.org/farkas_housi...
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🤝Meet the new Farkas, same as the old Farkas
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
💫 Great video of @jeromyyyc.bsky.social pointing out all the forms of housing he’s pledged to make illegal across Calgary.
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Project Alberta @projectalberta.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
🚨 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_...
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The UCP is rolling out the red carpet for an Australian billionaire to build coal mines on the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 06/05/2025
🧵 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/
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Tom Babin @shifter.info · 01/05/2025
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
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The Ultimate Guide to Bike Commuting and Urban Cycling
This course gives you all the knowledge you need to make the bike a bigger part of your daily life. Through engaging video lessons and expert advice from Tom Babin, learn how to confidently and safely...
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Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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.
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Alberta Justice Minister has personal relationship with man whose businesses are tied to AHS investigation
Mickey Amery told The Globe and Mail that he is a long-time friend of Sam Mraiche and ‘loosely related’ to him through marriage
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
“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...
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Ousted Alberta MLA says premier knew about AHS problems
Newly public documents related to the Alberta Health Services’ procurement scandal have laid out a better timeline of what the province knew and when it was informed about the issue.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Important and thorough article. Great work as always from Michael Beer and the Energy Mix.
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Pick a Lane, Practice What You’ve Preached, Climate Analysts and Advocates Urge Carney
With a cabinet to be appointed in the next two weeks, Parliament set to convene May 26, and a trip to Washington, DC on the agenda, Prime Minister Mark Carney is already facing high expectations—and t...
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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...
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💰Cllr. Sharp Sharing Misleading Info on Arena Agreement
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
⭐️ TAKE ACTION: Email Event Centre Committee Chair Sonya Sharp and all of Calgary city council to ask for transparency and accuracy on the arena deal funding. actionbutton.nationbuilder.com/share/SPK-QE...
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🛩️ Billionaire Flames owners will pocket 100% of the estimated >$100M per year in arena revenues. Under the terms of the agreement, the billionaire Flames owners will collect 100% of arena operating revenues, estimated to be north of $100M annually based on financial info from a 2024 Forbes report.
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🤑 While the Sharp and the City are telling Calgarians that the Flames owners will contribute $356-million (38%) towards the arena over the course of the 35-year agreement, they will actually only be contributing as little as $170-million (18%).
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
💸 The arena deal even worse for taxpayers than advertised. Just when it seemed like you couldn’t have imagined a worse deal than the one announced in April 2023, that socialized the costs on the backs of taxpayers and privatized the profits billionaires, Sonya Sharp found a way.
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
💰Cllr. Sharp and the City are sharing misleading info on the true funding sources for the new arena. www.projectcalgary.org/arena_deal_m...
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💰Cllr. Sharp Sharing Misleading Info on Arena Agreement
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disordered @disorderedyyc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Danielle Smith from 3 years ago complaining about people contacting her boss to try to get her fired. Oh the hypocrisy. #ableg #abpoli
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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.
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Climate groups push for transparency in alleged fossil fuel education influence
Climate advocacy groups 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 robus...
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The Billionaires First party has a record of advocating for subsiding wealthy elites while forcing harsh austerity on Calgarians. 💰 Arena subsidy 💰 Sprawl subsidies 💰 UCP Green Line interference www.projectcalgary.org/billionaires...
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🤑🛩️ Billionaires First
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
💰 Millions in public tax dollars ❌ No community consultation ❌ No transparency ❌ No public benefit
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Once again Councillor Terry Wong and his Billionaires First party are putting wealthy special interests ahead of public good. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/vide...
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City to pave over, remove most Cowboys Park green space
The City of Calgary plans to pave over and remove 70 per cent of the green space at Cowboys Park, to the disappointment of festival organizers.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 07/02/2025
@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...
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Marshall Smith allegations should prompt full procurement investigation
The Globe & Mail is reporting top-level allegations that Marshall Smith, former chief of staff to the Alberta premier, interfered in AHS procurement. If a forensic investigation proceeds, it must exte...
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🗑️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...
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
📣Keep up the pressure! ✉️ 1) Email Calgary City Council ✉️ 2) Email the Alberta Government - Ditch the Dreeshen Drawing🖍️ 📣 3) Help spread the word: www.projectcalgary.org/sharp_leads_...
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🤡Sharp Leads Council Capitulation on Green Line
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🤠 Calgarians are united in opposition to 'reckless' "Dreeshen Drawing" elevated alignment through Beltline and downtown. Residents, businesses small and large, real estate and property developers are united in opposing the disastrous "Dreeshen Drawing" plan.
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🤑The Province is backing an underground arena and coal mine for foreign billionaires, but refuses to fund efficient underground public transit for Calgarians.
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🎪 This capitulation foreshadows the potential future under a UCP-controlled city council led by the UCP-controlled Billionaires First municipal political party. Electing an independent local gov in the Oct 2025 election will be crucial to saving our public funds from being diverted to billionaires.
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
💰The City of Calgary will be legally liable for $100's of millions in downtown property value impacts. The City estimated the cost of these liabilities could fall in the order of $100's of millions of dollars.
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
💸 The disastrous "Dreeshen Drawing" plan risks bankrupting the City of Calgary and putting our local government and essential services at greater risk of further provincial interference.
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
✅ Thank you to the Mayor and 5 councillors who voted against the Province's disastrous "Dreeshen Drawing" downtown alignment. Shout out for standing Calgarian's ground against the Provincial Government's riskier, more expensive plan.
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🤮Councillor Sonya Sharp and her UCP-controlled Billionaires First municipal political party led a block of city councillors in a capitulation to the Provincial Government's 'reckless' elevated Green Line alignment through the Beltline and Downtown. billionairesfirst.ca
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🤡COUNCILLOR SONYA SHARP LEADS CAPITULATION ON GREEN LINE www.projectcalgary.org/sharp_leads_... #GreenLineYYC #yyccc #BillionairesFirstyyc
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🤡Sharp Leads Council Capitulation on Green Line
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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.
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LiveWire Calgary @livewirecalgary.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
'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
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Downtown, construction groups call province's Green Line changes 'reckless' - LiveWire Calgary
Calgary downtown building owners and operators, businesses and builders have come together with stiff opposition to the Government of Alberta’s proposed above-ground alignment for the Green Line.…
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Alex Middleton @alexyyc.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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/...
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Former Calgary city councillor Joe Magliocca guilty of fraud for falsifying expense claims | CBC News
Former Calgary city councillor Joe Magliocca has been found guilty of fraud for lying on his expense claims. Magliocca was acquitted on the charge of breach of trust.
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bikebike @bikebikeyyc.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Tell me more about that cyclist you saw roll thru a stop sign #calgary
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
"NAOIP, BOMA, the Calgary Downtown Association, and the Calgary Construction Association sent a letter, dated Jan. 24, to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and to Alberta Transportation and Economic Corridors Minister Devin Dreeshen, outlining major concerns with the province’s proposed line."
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Downtown, construction groups call province's Green Line changes 'reckless' - LiveWire Calgary
Calgary downtown building owners and operators, businesses and builders have come together with stiff opposition to the Government of Alberta’s proposed above-ground alignment for the Green Line. NAOI...
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
🔫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.
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Aryn Toombs @aryn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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...
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Does the City of Calgary have an $87 billion climate strategy? 'No, we do not.' - LiveWire Calgary
Nearly four years later, and multiple efforts to clarify, some councillors are still trotting out the misinformed $87 billion climate emergency declaration cost for a sound bite. It happened once agai...
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Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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.
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Project Calgary @projectcalgary.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
🖍️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.
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🚇 Province must fund underground Green Line
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