1. This goes to show how weak the other candidates to replace Notley were.

  2. He's the frontrunner specifically because of his lack of ties to the party. ANDP needs an image change, and they need someone who can win votes in Calgary. Nenshi does those better than other options.

  3. The UCP handed the election on a silver platter, if the NDP had any semblance of political strategy before and over the pandemic years they would have raked the coals over the fire. But nope, they sat back expecting a win and here we are.

  4. Ehhh, huh? We have more non-conservative seats than we've ever had. It was the second most successful election for a non-conservative party, and the first was before they united the right wing parties to stop splitting votes. In that sense, it might have been the must successful election for a non-conservative party in our history.

  5. a smarmy ten percent of them would vote blue BECAUSE they announced they would kill all albertans if elected

  6. Council should be extremely grateful that somebody showed leadership and did something about the homeless camps.

  7. We spent a shit load of money and solved basically nothing, just spreading the camps out to different locations. I don't know if council should be grateful for that?

  8. Edmonton looks way better now. Go take a walk in Chinatown. Night and Day.

  9. Chinatown is not necessarily indicative of the entire city. If you think dispersing the population of people living rough has solved anything...

  10. Previous provincial governments have always paid property taxes for provincial owned property within the city of Edmonton, even though technically they are not legally required to. The current UCP government decided to stop paying those property taxes. Edmonton has no recourse to collect, but it's another avenue where the province has cut funding from the cities. Now it looks like they are using the lack of funding as an excuse to try and interfere in municipal politics which feels a bit... dirty

  11. Interesting... so we're anti-immigration on balance, but pro immigration if they come from a specific country? That's really strange. I wonder what it is about Ukrainian refugees that appeal to conservatives more than other refugees...

  12. I love all the replies actually answering your question like you don’t know the answer. lol

  13. I am laughing/crying at all the replies. I guess I opened a can of worms with that remark.

  14. The Auditor General does that every year. What specific concerns did you have?

  15. Mainly the things they have refused FOIP's on. I'd like to see an audit of the War Room for starters.

  16. FOIP is a different office. File a complaint?

  17. Can't, they've deliberately set up the war room to not be a direct organization within the government and therefore have decided that it isn't up for public scrutiny, including audits or FOIPs.

  18. I have two teenage daughters. Mind you, they are both teenagers, but at least one has decided that due to overpopulation, she has never going to have kids. If that at least limits her reproduction, she’s done some good for this dying planet.

  19. Your daughter is worried about overpopulation? Of what? The planet?

  20. Nah, that’s the conclusion of the educated. We are just overflowing with more resources than we all need of course, from houses to food to fish in the ocean.  

  21. Of course humans are impacting the planet. That's because we choose not to take the right path in favor of the easy one, not because there are too many of us.

  22. I enjoyed it, and I'm not a huge Floyd fan. I would say it's worth it.

  23. When it comes to seafood I care a lot less about price than I do about quality. I prefer Catch of the Week.

  24. I wasn't born into wealth. My chances are tiny.

  25. The real giveaway is when you have people who are the CEO of more than one company. You can't tell me that being a CEO is an 80 hour a week job if you can do two of them at the same time.

  26. Now over to that one kid for Alberta's new gender policy.

  27. LOL! It took me a minute to put it together. Very good! I actually laughed out loud to myself when it hit.

  28. To late, my wife woke up and was enraged.

  29. Maybe if we had a cat appointed to an official Library position, and then an elected official wanted him removed out of spite.. we could drum up more public media support and attention

  30. Cat, Dog, Horse, either way, there are a lot of people who care more about animals than humans. Could be a winning idea!

  31. There were several school trustee positions in Edmonton that were awarded by acclimation as well, it's not just small town library boards. This is why I continually advocate to people I know that they should be more aware of local politics, but no one seems to think it's worth their time. Then all of a sudden they are wondering why their kids aren't getting sex ed in schools anymore and it's too late to do anything about it.

  32. Exactly.  Raising taxes on the burbs is mot going to drive anyone to live downtown,  that’s a pipe dream.  People will either pay the higher taxes or move out of the city.

  33. You think that people who are a net drain on city taxes are causing an issue if they move out of the city? It solves the problem either way. Regardless of where people choose to live, we should be taxing neighborhoods appropriately to cover the cost of infrastructure and services to those neighborhoods.

  34. The lions share of downtown taxes collected come from commercial buildings.  The higher property values result in apartment buildings paying higher taxes.  Those buildings could be located in areas where the property values are lower.  Condo owners don’t pay any more taxes than similarly valued condos in other areas of the city. Look,  you chose to live downtown.  Good for you but most people don’t want to for a myriad of reasons.  This constant whining about the suburbs is tiresome.  We lived downtown for a number of years and it was not pleasant,  we love our suburban home, I’d even pay more for the benefit of living here.  

  35. And yet it still sucks and as I explained, buying a more efficient car isn't always an option. My parents need a vehicle that can haul their water tank but can't afford multiple vehicles so they often drive around with a single person in a V8 ford explorer.

  36. They had a well but it collapsed when the neighbor drilled his. The cost to drill a new one is something like 10,000 with no guarantees of it actually being usable. Water delivery is not a great option because most places charge per truckload and they only have a 500 gallon tank. Getting a bigger cistern is also prohibitively expensive. It's actually quite common in rural Alberta for people to haul their own water.

  37. I suppose the idea is they offset the cost of city living with lower taxes, but then have to make up the services on their own. I lived rural most of my childhood because it's what my parents wanted, but it wasn't the life for me. I've lived in the city since I was old enough to move away from home. I'd rather pay more for taxes and housing but have services and amenities readily available.

  38. Your first line, appeared to minimize the issue based on who wrote the article. Your second line showed approval for the idea, but contempt for who was pushing it. With all due respect, I saw it as a bit of a shit sandwhich.

  39. Fair enough point, I don't think I was contributing much either way. I don't think we do enough auditing of public money (EPS being the main culprit for me, but the UCP would be a very close second), so I don't want people just leaning into their political bias and jumping to defend the left leaning Edmonton from the "enemy" UCP. Audits aren't a bad thing, but the motivation of the UCP is.

  40. Holy shit that's reductive. Every doctor's office I have used in my life was owned by the doctors. If they don't want to do the business side of things they usually hire an administrator. Just because they aren't business majors doesn't mean they can't own a business.

  41. Staying with the same insurance company since 2018 is part of the issue. The only time I've ever had a reduction in rates is when I have switched. There's no loyalty, they will automatically increase your rates every year because they know apathy is strong and no one likes shopping around for insurance.

  42. We had to do this once on a trip to a city where we didn't know anyone. On day one we went to the used baby goods store and bought a travel play pen for around $15. We were planning to just go sell it back to them for a couple bucks but decided to leave it in the AirBnB we rented so that it would have one for any other families with babies who came.

  43. In theory, yes, in reality, no. The bar for a recall is set incredibly high (as it should be) so practically, you will never see it happen.

  44. You owe it to yourself and to your neighbours that you share walls with to have renter's insurance. I've never understood the reluctance to get this type of insurance. If your neighbour fucks up, you'll be made whole. If you fuck up, you won't spend the rest of your life paying for it.

  45. It's also just about the cheapest insurance you can possibly get. Why people who rent will shell out over a thousand a month for an apartment but not add $15 or $20 on there to have all their shit insured is beyond me.

  46. When you say inner pillow, you are talking about the foam that goes inside the fabric for a couch or something?

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