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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
He was accurately live tweeting (“reporting”) what was said, without bias.
I don’t think anything about that is strange unless you’ve been asleep for the last decade (in terms of live tweeting something like a press conference) or the last half century (in terms of reporters wanting to “break” the news).
I do think it’s strange that people have trouble contextualizing these things, though. Plus, end of the day, the City of Calgary is responsible for the majority of cost overruns. Slamming Salim because he reported that they were responsible for cost overruns (which is what was said) instead of responsible for most cost overruns is just searching for something to be mad at.
EDIT: To put the project into context with the cost overruns, the city is responsible for overruns on about $1.05B of the project, while CSEC is responsible for overruns on $150M.
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The response here is good but he did Tweet that the City was responsible for cost overruns. If he had included the words "cost overruns on infrastructure" then this discussion isn't even a point. Salim knows how to push the buttons and only stated "cost overruns" probably knowing how that the people who don't want the city investing would assume he is talking about the arena. The same group of people who don't understand that the Provincial money is for infrastructure only, which is the same as they are investing in Edmonton.
But hey, no need to read anything just wildly rant (not you, your responses are reasonable).