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@beltline_pres

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#yyc urban advocate and president of #beltline urban society. tweets are a mixed bag .

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@meelonmuskusa . no . i like twitter . i like the bird .
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. . mayor says five more sections of pipe discovered by robot must be repaired . water restrictions extended for three to five weeks longer . puts Glenmore supply at risk too . . . the gross incompetence of @cityofcalgary is delivering a summer of hell . .
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@PierrePoilievre . dunno about exposed . Canadians all know CBC is government funded . and most of us have no problem with that .
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@Kahlissee . no . it's not solidarity . it's a bunch of kids dressed up as ottoman era arab farmers ordering take-out .
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@Amtrak . seems the equipment hasn't changed in forty years either .
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@nathaliejacoby1 . no . absolutely not . is the United States trying to play like the USSR used to in decades past ?
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. . it's done . . . #YYCcc has now taken the most anti-democratic action in my almost fifty years of following Calgary policy + politics . .
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. . #YYCcc . fire the city manager forwith . bring in emergency techncial management asap . military engineering leadership might work . @cityofcalgary , for god's sake, stop making excuses . you have failed to provide an essential municipal service . you are now
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@HeidiOCanada @CaseyDeSantis . think she's on the way to a 1955 debutante cotillion .
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@FoodPornPhotos . ruined . feed it to the dog .
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@kelsientaggart . hmm . beginning to understand why nearly all of her staff quit .
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@JyotiGondek Mme Mayor @JyotiGondek , what Calgarians need is a city council that focuses its oversight on maintaining essential infrastructure and delivering basic municipal services. This #YYCcc has failed to do that. An apology is in order, not a litany of excuses and an arsenal of
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@TheAgenda @David_Moscrop . supporting safety and inclusion consists of flying a pride flag in your view ? one would think what actually happens in the schools is far moere important .
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@KatyAnderson @jacobs_cda @CalgaryPolice @UCalgary . this is where you miss the point . it is your ight to protest, yes . and your uni supports that . it is not your right to camp on uni property nor to erect barricades . that is why you were removed . but you know that .
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. . the indefensible mayor @JyotiGondek blames @ABDanielleSmith for water main break . . . with all its billions, @cityofcalgary can't even deliver the most basic of municpal services . #YYCcc #sticktotheknitting .
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@cosminDZS @CoryBMorgan @JustinTrudeau . trying to look shorter methinks . the pic was supposed to be cropped differently .
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@AndyFillmoreHFX . perhaps . and perhaps it's concern about schools, teachers' unions and teachers excluding parents from kids' lives . or perhaps part the one and part the other .
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@Kahlissee . what in the world do you fantasize is 'fascist' about the unversity's controlling use of its property ?
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@Resist_05 . it's what a university controlling the use of its property looks like . how is that 'fascist' ?
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@CoryBMorgan . what's going on is that they're trying to kill each other in the streets of northeast Calgary . if they're not yet citizens, people who do that kind of thing -- or at least people who try it more than once -- should be deported . Falconridge is not Eritrea .
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@RachelNotley . it indeed is scare mongering . and it says nothing about your healthcare policy .
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@CoryBMorgan . the problem is not too little money . the problem is too many city hall staff .
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@nenshi . for those who may be confused on the matter, Naheed @nenshi was never 'voted out' . he chose not to run again having completed Calgary's (more or less) traditional three terms as mayor . his tenure was extended by two years from previous incumbents due to a
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@DavidHamer_1951 . think most everyone who is fortunate is good with helping Canadians who have far less . the question is whether that's actually what the government will do with the extra taxes it raises .
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@disorderedyyc . it would appear that she's talking about the treatment of the unvaccinated as Hitlerian, not calling people who chose to be vaccinated such .
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@nurdogandiyorki @occupyuoft . 'brutalize' is not the right word . the police are removing these people from the uni's property . UofT has every right and reason to do so .
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@jkenney @boehmerB . maybe shoulda diversified Alberta's economy when it woulda been far easier . i mean you had the money and coulda . welcome to Alberta shoulda-woulda-coulda country .
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@drDavidKeegan @AHS_media . you are awesome at over-the-top hyperbole .
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@_wake_up_USA . unite together over what . paying for that coat ?
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@Harry__Faulkner . correct . no one own owns their kids . but their social + emotional formation is their parents' responsibility, not the job of schools, teachers unions or teachers . teachers should teach, parents should guide . teachers should never keep secrets from parents,
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@CoryBMorgan . here is my list of essential municipal services that a big city must provide before it does anything else: (1) water, (2) sanitary sewer, (3) police, (4) garbage removal, (5) storm sewer . after those, come importnats services including roads, public transit, , parks,
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@JyotiGondek . the low income transit pass has proven to be a highly successful and valuable program . it is also a relatively iinexpensive one, some 6.5 M$ annually i believe . why can't @cityofcalgary just pay for it ?
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@LoriSigurdson . hard drugs are killing Albertans . a govt that hands them out anonymously in the name of 'safe supply' certainly won't help anyone . it would appear that the @abndpcaucus favours the more irresponsible addiciton policy .
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. . one is forced to see cllr G-C Carra's demeanour throughout this hearing as a comment on the value of listening to Calgary citizen's views on blanket upzoning . .
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@Kahlissee . where do get this stuff ? or do you just make it up ?
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@KatyAnderson @CalgaryPolice @UCalgary . those thing happened because you were camping on uni property, not because you were protesting . and you were well forewarned .
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@RealCandaceO @kanyewest . pretty sure he won't have a lot of trouble finding a bank .
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@globeandmail . may i suggest repealing C-18 .
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@LiseGot . what an ugly thing to say for no good reason, @lisegottell . you must be a deeply hate filled person .
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@JyotiGondek . . incompetence compounded . fire Duckworth . #accountability . . @cityofcalgary is the worst run among cities over one million in north america . dead last . you are leader of a self serving gong show that is city hall . .
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@KirkLubimov . wtf . but if you haven't found him, how do you know he's an immigrant .
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@LukaszukAB . in short, urbanites are grossly under-represented at ever level of AB government . that reality has created massive social + cultural distorion above and beyond the political one . still, angry rural Albertans remain entitled if anyone makes a peep about this reality .
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@WallStreetSilv . or something is improving . choosing individual autonomy over marriage is not something that is 'broken' . marriage is unsuitable for as many as it sustains . 'codependency' is no longer needed . why should society attempt to enforce marriage on people ?
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@kourtpenner . if #YYCcc didn't make the decision, it certainly should have, Cllr @kourtpenner . it is @cityofcalgary 's Canada Day celebration we're talking about . you seem to have set up 'reversal' to provide 'cover' by not taking responsibility for the decision . you are the
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@KirkLubimov . is the guy on the right having his menstrual cycle ?
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@nathaliejacoby1 . i find her dull and opinionated .
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@EliotJacobson . gift article . no paywall .
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@iamnot_elon . no . she already claims too much exposure . and she is irrelevant to any public consideration .
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. . can we beg the govt of AB to call a vote of electors to throw the #YYCcc incompetents out ? is that possible under bill 20 ? @RicMcIver @ABDanielleSmith ? they just keep making excuses and haven't fired the city manager . zero accountability for the most grotesque
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@NSValley . . guess your looking for congratulations . if you so strong + confident, why do you need them? .
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@WBrettWilson . even more fundamentally, why does one pipe supply 65% of the city's water ? how much flow did that pipe support when it was first installed ? how much does it provide now ? wouldn't one think that more flow means more stress and a need for more attention . perhaps,
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. . @cityofcalgary working hard to destroy your tires and bend your wheel rims . Onward , #YYCcc
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@CalgaryRecall . the mayor is out of runway . she is losing trust + authority rapidly .
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@StrongTowns . plannercrats are determined to sterilize our cities . turn everything into an endless sprawl of sf houses + shoppping centres .
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@TaraSlone . both and neither are 'right' as i see it . you guys looking for something to argue about ?
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@sabrinagrover . and if desification is the goal, there are many ways to accomplish it . the best way to find the right answers for various communities is district by district . that requires @cityofcalgary to work with its citizens, not just drop a blanket solution on the whole city .
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@Burt642 . the things have become a symbol of terrorist sympathies . certainly should not be worn in the legislative chamber .
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@RicMcIver . thanks @RicMcIver . another reason to support the current government . btw, you are an excellent muni affairs minisiter who knows what's what with the big cities .
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. . an essential municipal service will be running on the edge of disaster for most of the summer , if it makes it . our city council is unaccountable . our technocrats are incompetent . worst run city of over one million on the continent . .
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@KimGCMoody @cafreeland . being a Calgarian, i'll settle for a city where the water systems works .
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@LukaszukAB . sorta the same thing as 'old stock' methinks . some sort of ruralist supremacist notion .
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@sabrinagrover . you know i am a lifelong lib, @sabrinagrover . regardless, it is fair to say the cons take the PRC's malevolence far more seriously than our party has . that fact may be the undoing of PM JT .
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@theToddHirsch . "56 Sparks Street, Ottawa" . Lotta Hitschmanova . USC Canada . . . yet i think of it as the offices of Nanos ;-))
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. gross incompetence . fire city manager Duckworth now !! . . . stage 3 is not 'good news' . it portends heavy water use restriction throught the summer and perhaps even permanently . it reflects @cityofcalgary 's inability to provide basic services and mayor
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@TheMarieOakes @CoryBMorgan . @CBCNews keeps saying its gasoline over and over . i think it's diesel fuel . ya know for heavy transport trucks . not gasoline .
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@KathleenGanley . actually, it doesn't . unis get to set the rules as to how + when uni property is used . protest demostrations are allowed . encampments are not .
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. . how our inestimable mayor's 'team' thinks Calgarians should cope without water . . . drink beer and take your whisky straight . . . they're not only incompetent, they're lame . .
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@Kahlissee . mainstream media show these demos often . and most in them are protesting Netanyahu's failure to recover the hostages . not many think 'palestinian' lives is the main issue .
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@BrianJeanAB . of course not . even when Guilbeault tries to listen, he does not hear .
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@FoodPornPhotos . too much cheese on the pizza .
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@archi_tradition . as in any region, it depends how wealthy you are .
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@Chantel_Bx0 . becuase Alberta is counting for more and more on the national stage . and premier Smith is an awesomely professional communicator .
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@DanWMcLean . no, @DanWMacLean . i do *not* support non-citizens' voting in muni elections . i suspect cllr Wolcott picked up this idea from US dems' wanting US immigrants to vote in federal elections as they perceive it to be a way to favour US dems electorally . i also suspect
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@NolaisJeremy . how do you justify the notion the the premier intends to steal pensions ?
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@albertaNDP . and @albertaNDP , the endless DD (that's dissing Danielle) is not going to win you the seats you need in Calgary :-))
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@Canadian_Crown . and then they moved to California and tried to become media stars . wrote a pissy book + gave anti royal family Oprah interview . no time for them .
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@DuaneBratt . balanced . you are clearly + visibly an @albertaNDP partisan . you are poor as a 'balanced' TV politics commentator . (1) Danielle Smith has been 'convicted' of nothing, (2) your implication that 'private' healthcare means user pay is wrong . 'on balance',
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@kourtpenner . military service is a voluteer job . taxes have nothing to do with voting . taxes are about earning in the Canadian economy or owning property in a muni . the rationale for landed immigrants (PRs) not voting is the citizenship learning curve, i.e. gaining experience with
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@AnnaliseAK @TheCurrentCBC . this is an excellent example of the ugliest kind of partisanship .
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. . @cityofcalgary is the worst run of any city over one million on this continent . gross incompetence . shocking irresponsibility . incomprehensible arrogance . #YYCcc @jyotigondek , fire city manager Duckworth now + apologize to Calgarians . #accountability
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NEW COLUMN. Not again! Calgary water pipe screwup, when will it ever end? via @calgaryherald #yyc #yyccc #water #cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli
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@Kahlissee . and what did Hamas do with Al Shifa Hospital ? answer: used it as a terrorist stronghold and tunnel network access point . and worse, used it patients and staff as human shields to protect the Hamas terrorists occupying the hospital . Hamas really is the worst of
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@CarymaRules . guess that reveals what supporters of terrorism are like .
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@LukaszukAB @ABDanielleSmith . i was born b4 WWII . so i get what you're saying . perhaps she means the beginning of the end when speaking of Normandie . as for the dates, they're moot . depends on the various national perspectives .
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@globeandmail . OK . people should be prevented from doing these sorts of things in the first place .
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@DVWarriorMom @ABDanielleSmith . nice thought, but some millions of dollars will do nothing to stop wildfires from happening .
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. . when will the subject of the Nenshi councils' oversight of Calgary's water system arise ? what's the story from 2010 to 2021 ? the former mayor wants to be premier . given that the province is now coming to the rescue, a premier with a track record of being less than
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@recallgondekyyc . non-citizens voting is a bad idea . imho .
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@KarenShaw_ . so close to Edmonton . no need for diagnostic imaging there . wasteful + unneeded rural healthcare facilities + staff .
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@kim_siever . govt AUPE + CUPE office workers are over paid / over compensated relative to private sector .
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@Resist_05 . perhaps that is because 'Palestine' is not a country, and there is no land theft, ethnic cleansing or genocide .
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@Stephwolfe101 . hmmm . holding the govt accountable even before it's done anything . interesting approach .
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@jcpollock @yashar @kaheina3009 . we can lay blame wherever we choose . yet i think he's doing just fine .
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. . @cityofcalgary city manager Duckworth ought to have been fired the day the bearspaw feeder main blew, not put in charge of choosing those to investigate him + staff . #accountability . #YYCcc @jyotigondek @sonyasharp @JenniferWyness . city hall is inexcusably
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@Michphil1998 . err . because he's PM .
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@DavidStaplesYEG . both of AB's big cities have spun out of control . adult supervision is warranted .
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@CTVNews . makes sense to me . multi-millionaires should pay far more than seniors on low fixed income .
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@charlesadler . in truth, Freeland says as close to nothing as is humanly possible, even for an experienced pol . . . i believe in the PEI economy . i believe that there is air . air is good . so is the PEI economy . we should all believe in air . and the PEI economy .
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@SenWarren . reducing carbon emissions is a good thing . but how does that reduce inflation?
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@kinsellawarren @CoryBMorgan @AllFactsNoHate . an old white women screaming about infidels . wonder if she can recite Qur'an . or is she just a Victorian antisemite ?
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