More than transit, it’s a story of poverty.
Calgary
The Junction
Sean Shaw uncovers to things about the City of Saskatoon. The first is the City is looking at redeveloping The Junction. The Junction concept plan seeks to link together major redevelopment projects in three Saskatoon core areas by recommending public realm improvements, identifying future uses for vacant/contaminated lands, increasing investor confidence, and synchronize past studies [...]
The role of the arts in building a great city
The Mayor of Calgary has headed east to tout the virtues of living in Calgary. In his speech in Toronto Tuesday night, Nenshi discussed a host of promising cultural projects and investments into artistic spaces in Calgary, including the construction of Canada’s National Music Centre, a new downtown branch for the city’s public library and [...]
Looking at harm reduction from a Christian perspective
So Calgary has stopped giving out free crack pipes as part of it’s harm reduction strategy. Since 2008, Alberta Health Services had been giving out crack-pipe kits as part of the Safeworks program, an effort to reduce transmittable diseases. The kits contained a glass pipe, mouthpiece and cleaning tool and were handed out in an [...]
Red Arrow Coaches
My colleague and I were talking about Red Arrow coaches the other day and I found this great article by Jeremy Klazus who writes about them in Alberta Venture Red Arrow carries business travellers, mostly. But its fares aren’t out of reach for students and others making personal trips. “Our typical demographic is a professional [...]
Column: Handling debt poses challenge
Today’s column in The StarPhoenix. Former mayor Henry Dayday wrote to council in May questioning how much debt the city was taking on and how Saskatoon residents were going to pay for it. He pointed out that the city has $175 million in debt on its books and potentially another $225 million related to new [...]
I’m angry at the government as well
Cosmo Industries is upset with the City of Saskatoon City Council. I am to but for totally different reasons. Saskatoon doesn’t have a minor league ball team, the Riders don’t hold their training camp in Saskatoon anymore, there is a massive pothole on a street I drive to work on. The list goes on. Cosmo’s [...]
Calgary LRT to grow by 70 kms in 30 years
70 kilometres of new track, 45 new stations. With three more decades’ worth of expansions essentially mapped out, it stands to stretch out more than 70 additional kilometres, becoming a six-legged monster with more than 45 new stations. And yes, that includes an airport LRT stop. Most plans are still many years, engineering studies and [...]
Historical Housing (brought to you by Google Street View)
This is the first home we owned in Calgary. It looked a lot better before it was totally overgrown by shrubs. In 1980, we moved into this house. The ugly hedge wasn’t there but there was a basketball hoop that has gone missing. In 1984, as my parents divorce was finalizing, we had literally no [...]
