Completely ignores that the portfolios under Provincial jurisdiction are crumbling, and that the deals with the Feds are at the behest of the municipalities who are getting no help from the province.

I've heard a few people talk about selling off city land to make some quick cash. I'm not a fan. You can only sell your land once, and if that cash goes straight to overheads it's not a sustainable activity.

I'm a rural Albertan who works in mining. Are my bona-fides in order to be allowed to think that because the UCP is actively harming citizens in the Edmonton area that I can side-eye their supporters?

The municipal system of government is not designed for party participation. Is the expectation that the party that elects the most council representatives gets to seat the mayor? There is no practical value for citizens, and the reason it is being pursued is to create another avenue for...

She's currently being impacted by a neuron decelerator, so likely not.

I don't know if the process is airtight in terms of being influenced by people on council, but the current system of third-party salary review is the correct one. https://www.edmonton.ca/sites/default/files/public-files/assets/PDF/OCM00067_ICCC_Final_Report_2020_Attachment_1.pdf?cb=1710455580

For now. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/new-bill-lays-groundwork-for-alberta-provincial-police-1.7142996

Those dirty commies and their careers as ...(checks notes)... business professors! Wait...what?

If only there were billions in investment waiting in the wings for renewable energy projects. It's just so hard to get those off the ground, though, what with all of the permitting and such. But hey...and I know this is a bit out there...what if we had a specific person in government, maybe...

I know that Notley's single term feels like a hundred years ago, but I'm old enough to remember that her government actually did make meaningful changes that would be bearing fruit if not immediately scuttled by the UCP. There were myriad polices and programs to incubate a diversified economy...

Cultivating the next generation of UCP voters. None of this is an accident.

It's the grift that keeps on grifting.

No outward claims, but certainly a general sense of out of sight, out of mind. You're right that there's more nuance. For example, if there are shelter spaces available, it would be worth looking into why they are unfilled if people are still in encampments - and to do this before taking...

Quite the Straw Man. The problem people have with clearing the encampments is the lack of a short-term plan to fulfill the basic need of shelter. As it stands, proponents of the demolition see that the tents are gone and think that we solved homelessness. The author kind of outed himself...

Step 1 Get angry* about something Step 2 Come up with a reason to be angry about it Step 3 Insert guesses in place of evidence that the reason for the anger exists I suspect that the time required for the declaration was negligible. Low risk/high reward. Hasn't paid off. *Angry is probably...

How much time was spent on declaring the emergency?

No link + oversimplification = online discourse This is a very messy situation with no right answer for Gondek.

I can only go by what the poster wrote. The object of the sentence was "some people at a climate conference." Anyway, if the contention is that we are above reproach on the topic of climate change because other jurisdictions have poor human rights records, then I can't get on board with that.

I doubt that these visitors to an international conference are using slaves to build desert oases.