Chris Ollenberger

Now also at @collenbe.bsky.social ! Enjoys traveling, meeting people, creating Places & a rare native Calgarian.

[CFIB Alberta @cfibAB]

Notably absent from today's budget presentation was any discussion of the impact on non-residential taxpayers. Calgary businesses paid 46% of the property tax share in 2025. As budget deliberations continue, @cityofcalgary should be transparent about what proposed increases mean for local employers and small businesses.

[Martin Pelletier @MPelletierCIO]

Pieces like this by Ontario based academic spouting anger towards Alberta is not the way to deal with this issue. In fact, it makes it worse.

[Jason, @jasonc_nc]

Sorry, no dice we need 45’ so go ahead and lop the first 15’ off each building and increase road deaths by 7x. For safety.

[Chris Ollenberger @collenbe]

@RailAlberta @CPKCrail @ABDanielleSmith @DevinDVote Sadly, CP & CN managed to get CDN municipalities through FCM manipulated into working w/ rail as THE priority & they demand cities protect themselves from rail accidents via these guidelines at no cost to rail https://t.co/Dt1Env9Y08

[Emma May @emmagmay]

Yeah. Been saying this for a while.

[Trevor Tombe @trevortombe]

Roughly, there’s ~$800 billion in taxpayer-funded education sitting outside the province that paid for it. With Alberta and B.C. the largest beneficiaries.

My latest for @TheHubCanada on the largest financial transfer nobody talks about: https://t.co/B7NzmZbOgC #cdnecon #cdnpoli

[Adam MacVicar @AdamMacVicar]

NEW: Calgary city councillors are eyeing alternate alignments options for the Green Line through the downtown core as part of a city functional study on an elevated line. Ward 5 Coun. Raj Dhaliwal voted against.

[Jason, @jasonc_nc]

The default size of a fire truck the U.S. is entirely based on the personal preferences of firefighters & their love of big trucks.

The rest of the world designed the trucks to meet the city. In the U.S. we designed our cities to meet the expanding trucks.

In return we got the following:
-no superior outcomes in fire deaths
-more road injuries and deaths
-less space for people and housing
-more expense
-less enjoyable cities

[Chris Ollenberger @collenbe]

Great job @fordnation. @CanadianPM needs to make this happen federally asap along with all other provincial and muncipal governments across the country. https://t.co/azENOfOxOS

[Andrew Leach 🇨🇦 @andrew_leach]

The extant major oil export pipelines (Keystone, TMX, Enbridge) were at 93% of capacity in the last month of public data: Keystone at 100%, Enb at 96%, and TMX at 75%. "Excess" capacity of about 350k bbl/d across the three lines. That's ~ AB forecast production growth to 2033.

[Matthew Sheldrake @matt_sheldrake]

Pretty wild Q1 2025 housing starts data from CMHC. #yyc led the large cities in starts - both in per capita starts, but also amazingly, total starts. #cdnpoli

[Jason Markusoff @markusoff]

The orange crash.
Showing the NDP in low single digits in Toronto-area ridings, and not much better in BC seats where they used to get in 20s. (Oh and Jagmeet Singh a distant 3rd in his riding)

[Trevor Tombe @trevortombe]

The S&P 500 has lost 10.5% of its value in two days.

Since 1980, we've only seen larger declines three other times: the '87 crash, Nov 2008, and Mar 2020. And those weren't due to policy choices.

This may be the largest self-imposed destruction of wealth ever.

[Trevor Tombe @trevortombe]

How bad was today's stock market decline?

Of the 11,406 trading days since January 1980, only 29 had larger declines.

[Chris Ollenberger @collenbe]

I remember joining Twitter. Lot of changes in the last 15 years….

[Chris Ollenberger @collenbe]

An interesting read! Not sure I agree with all instances of “greedy” even when used as allegories to make the point, or who is driving inner city densification (both reasons & incomplete list), but it certainly thought provoking nonetheless! #yycplan #yyccc #yycre

[richard white @everydaytourist]

"Perhaps we all need to look in the mirror to see who is the greedy one." Have a read and let me know what you think. https://t.co/D3TK7dSrDC @BILDCR @collenbe @CalgaryChamber @creb @BrookfieldHomes @djkelly @kourtpenner @SonyaSharpYYC #calgaryhousing #Calgaryrealestate

[Trevor Tombe @trevortombe]

Potentially massive policy move here by Nova Scotia. 👇

Nova Scotia vows to lift internal trade barriers for provinces that pass similar laws /via @globeandmail https://t.co/t2YOXeOH75

[NHL @NHL]

What a photo 📸 #4Nations

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS” 🏆 🇨🇦
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