Was the National Music Centre mostly privately funded? Seems odd to me that is one of our major museums when we don't have a natural history museum. I think good museums can actually do well in Calgary with the number of visitors the city gets. The Calgary Zoo has higher visitor volumes than...

Is the referendum the same time as the election? I think they want the referendum to proceed as quickly as possible, to get it done well before the election so it doesn't affect the Calgary votes. And the Notwithstanding clause only applies to certain sections of the charter, it is not a...

Seems like the city should get out those bylaw officers and start making some revenue!

Makes sense given the area. Wasn’t that why Starbucks closed?

But many don't? I'm not that familiar with the process but there isn't any enforcement for stuff like this? Seems like an easy way for bylaw fines to make up for photo radar.

Agreed this design is preferable and is much more common in other cities too like Vancouver. It's also significantly better for pedestrians, to have that buffer between sidewalk and traffic. I don't even think you'd need to reduce parking. There's public ROW reserved in most front yards the city...

For private trees, yes. But that's just a reality for increased density. People are living on 25ft lots, or even the examples of midblock 8 plexes, so will need to maximize building coverage. I wonder if the city needs to open up their ROW to private trees or they need to commit a lot of...

The amount of discussion in the media about how "Ottawa paid for an Alberta pipeline" is ridiculous. Or somehow the MOU is Ottawa giving in to Alberta, someone on CBC even said "if this is what Carney is giving to Alberta, what is he giving to Trump". We are still in the same country, CBC.

Only the cabinet, but staying in caucus. Seems inline with his career, symbolism vs action. Stay and have input in cabinet, or sit as a back bencher that can’t do anything.

Oh I see, but that entirely the homeowner and nothing to do with new infills. If you move a bit closer, the streetview is from 2014 and that same house is already there with a different tree.

Losing McDavid would be a big hit to their franchise values. The point was the Flames would realistic only fall to 20 even in a full rebuild. And franchises surrounding them are spending to the cap cup contenders. The idea that Calgary is a small market that can't spend to the cap or can't fully...

The Ctrain even has crossing arms for people. Not sure why they can't on the Valley line.

I'm not sure if we're looking at the same spot, but those are city trees, not private trees. So the city decides where to plant them. We asked the city for a tree last winter, and they planted it this year late summer, so it's pretty quick. They're also supposed to be watering, but we watered it...

Apparently this was done a while ago and the reasons they didn't announce it was because the team was doing bad. I don't know if this management team just has a really bad grasp of the fan base? I think the vast majority wanted Conroy to extend and did not want whatever Maloney said last week...

The language is much stronger than I thought. Clean electricity regs and O&G emissions cap, gone Commitment to export the oil that reach the port, with no caveat for indigenous or BC agreement Only consultation and financial ownership/benefit with BC/FN, no mention of agreement or anything...

Also 8 units aren't always used as 8 units, since many people don't actually rent out the basement. It's like if SFH in the new suburban developments are frequently 2 units.

From their report, looks like AIMCO also took some space last quarter.

Looking at the 12 month ended number, it looks like we were going to pass 20M for the first time but it doesn't add up? YTD is 14,885,303 and last year's last 3 months were 4,510,778, which total 19,396,081. Unless 12 month ended here means something different? We probably will still pass it...

From a purely Calgary point of view, the program seems to not recognize the already good base we are starting from and putting all municipalities on the same starting point. But I agree if they held every municipality to the same standard, Vancouver and Toronto would get no funding.

The program is designed poorly, and funds things for specific process instead of results. Again, playing whack-a-mole with policy changes. Cities change zoning then jack up development costs. Calgary has less heritage protection which has helped re-develop downtown parcels much faster, but...