107rideryyc

Common sense is not so common.

[James @MrJamesKe]

There is absolutely nothing normal about nearly 45% of your income going to taxes. That's the madness we have normalized!

[107rideryyc @107rideryyc]

@Landonforward14 There is a ton of empty lots around downtown / train stations - why are these not parking lots for added revenue? Westbrook mall (empty for 10 years) and the lot across from the mustard seed. Lavish team building events / concert and flames tickets gotta go too.

[107rideryyc @107rideryyc]

@JeromyYYC 15% in one year? And we thought nenshi was crazy. Do you understand we are not your atm. Govs throw around “affordability” non stop but you’re the ones making our lives unaffordable - find cost savings!!!!! Ditch the free parking program for city workers to start.

[Millennial Grump @mapleblooded]

Don’t worry guys.

It’s been 11 years but they’ll fix everything this week.

[Sheila Walker 🤷🏻‍♀️⛳️🍸🔥 @sheilawalker73]

No we don’t
They are counting our pensions as their asset.
Our pensions are not their asset. No other country does this, it dishonest accounting, and if you did it in the private sector, you’d be in jail. Our pensions are untouchable.

[107rideryyc @107rideryyc]

@Dave_Eby Isn’t the deficit $14billion? And this is what you focus on?

[107rideryyc @107rideryyc]

@JeromyYYC This is insane - taxpayers / homeowners / renters are not a piggy bank you can raid over and over and over again.

[107rideryyc @107rideryyc]

@JeromyYYC Sounds like youve already given up before even starting the budgeting process… and our taxes are NOT LOW!!! They extremely high and normal law abiding people are getting less and less for paying more. Layer upon layer of gov. We are not a piggy bank to raid.

[107rideryyc @107rideryyc]

@CalgaryParking there is ONE lane of traffic getting through on 5th ave during the morning rush house due to an illegally parked car and three lanes closed by ennax. All of your service agents are unable to answer the phone,between 4th and 5th streets

[107rideryyc @107rideryyc]

@ENMAX @thecrippler9 @yyctransport @ENMAXpower One lane of traffic getting through on 5th ave this morning due to the three lane closure and an illegally parked car.

[107rideryyc @107rideryyc]

@nate_for_8 Ward 8 has lost so much green space while accommodating an insane amount of density. Richmond green ball diamonds a huge loss as was the football field at viscount. No replacements for either in the community - just the extra load of folks - and no parking so streets impassable

[107rideryyc @107rideryyc]

@yyctransport @ENMAXpower Am I reading this right - 3 lanes on one of two routes going into downtown to be closed for 4 months?!?! Happy commuting everyone - @calgarytransit suggest some alt routes down 5 ave it took forever this morning.

[107rideryyc @107rideryyc]

@thecrippler9 @yyctransport @ENMAXpower Also the link to the project details doesn’t work 😢

[107rideryyc @107rideryyc]

@thecrippler9 @yyctransport @ENMAXpower Right?????? Also thanks for the heads up Enmax like a sign or warning before getting stuck in gridlock would be nice for the employees who actually have to get downtown 😭

[107rideryyc @107rideryyc]

@CalgaryRecall #worsethanwalcott

[107rideryyc @107rideryyc]

@KybrdWrrr Keep up the great work - as a taxpayer these posts are extremely depressing. Maybe post to Reddit so we known @JeromyYYC sees them?

[107rideryyc @107rideryyc]

@JeromyYYC my property taxes have nearly doubled in 5 years alongside utility bills, user fees and home / car insurance premiums. Normal people can’t afford this!!!

[KybrdWrrr @KybrdWrrr]

Candidate Farkas told Calgarians:

“The problem today isn’t the amount City Hall does, but that it spends too much on the wrong things.”

He promised spending increases below inflation + population growth and said Calgary could grow “without forcing

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[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

TransCanada’s Energy East was proposed in 2013: a 4,600-km line converting existing pipe and adding new steel to move 1.1 million barrels a day of Western crude to Quebec and New Brunswick refineries and an Atlantic export terminal. It was nation-building infrastructure—energy security, jobs, and markets beyond the U.S.—a decade before today’s talk of corridors and Team Canada.

I was with TC at the time. My team did the hydraulics, chose the path, and selected the pump locations.

It was visionary and ahead of its time. Then Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre led the opposition, asking what was in it for Montreal and citing spill risk over national benefit. Quebec municipal resistance, tougher reviews, and low oil prices followed. TransCanada cancelled the project in October 2017. I'll never forget the cheers from Quebec. They were certain is was the beginning of the end of Alberta.

No unified national push existed then. A project that would have strengthened Canada’s energy position died on regional veto and short-term politics. The missed opportunity still haunts me.