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Blatchford for All: Council to Discuss Affordable Housing in the City’s Largest Land Development Project
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I posted most of my thoughts on this to Facebook earlier this weekend. Since then, the media coverage of this weekend’s Homeless Connect even has focused on Edmonton’s current demand for affordable housing. Also, I took a good look at the Executive Committee agenda for this week. Whil...
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Six Reads to Get You Through #elxn42
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It’s the longest election period since 1872. When horse sh*t was the end product of the active form of transportation at the time, and perhaps the speech as well. I keep thinking speeches were better back then. Anyway it’s a long time. Between the gestation period of a wolf and a leop...
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Parties and Charities: The Tale of Two Tax Credits
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“..lowering the charitable credit recognizes that people give for other reasons than tax rebates.” – Department of Finance Spokesperson, Metro News It’s probably quite true that most donate to charity without expecting anything in return. The more sharp tongued of individuals might publicly...
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Election 2015: Voting Today on next Year’s Budget
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The problem with trying to be the first out the door with a budget analysis, is that things can change significantly in 24 hours. In the time it takes to hold a spring election you can still go without a detailed look at how a budget will play out – how provincial administration implements ...
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Booming business for Alberta’s food banks
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(Food bank use in Canada – 2014 Hunger Count) An economy perpetually tied to the price of oil is stumbling, the government knows of at least 4,544 layoff notices being handed out, and business at Alberta’s food banks is booming. One of the barometers for poverty and the health of our societ...
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Until the next oil boom floats us out to sea.
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  The price of oil has fallen and it’s taken the sky down with it. The price of oil has been falling and projected to fall for some time. It was projected when Jim Prentice was on the leadership campaign trail. It was projected while Prentice, Gordon Dirks and Stephen Mandel were on the byel...
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Laws, Sausages and Huge Massive Loopholes
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The good news is that Alberta has a Conflicts of Interest Act (coming in a future blog, Alberta’s Whistleblower Act and how it’s also full of holes). The bad news is that the definition of “conflict of interest” is either so thin you could put it in a razor and shave with it, or a ...
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The Alberta Legislature – A year in Photoshop
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I follow our bizarre and frustratingly detached from reality and the average citizen, provincial political scene for both work and personal interest. It often leaves me wishing that I had the artistic skills for political cartoons. Photoshop however, still provides me with an outlet. So here you ...
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A Shout-out to Yeg’s Fastest Runners
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1:00am in the river valley at the Tuxedos & Gowns run for @yegfoodbank #yeg A video posted by Jamie Post (@jamiepost) on Nov 11, 2014 at 1:06am PST It’s cold, snowing, the roads suck and I’ve seen one email stating that life as we know it is over for the year. In reality, the ice … The ...
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A ‘market’ solution to our affordable housing crisis
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and Calgary are struggling with a lack of affordable housing, while Calgary’s shelters run at capacity with winter looming. Both cities are also grappling with the infrastructure and transportation costs of on-going urban sprawl and the servicing costs of new neighbourhoods. Alberta’s big cities ...
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