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View Poll Results: Are you for or against Calgary hosting the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games?
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I am for Calgary hosting
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I am against Calgary hosting
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11-06-2018, 04:07 PM
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#161
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Originally Posted by greyshep
I'm not so sure about your confidence that this segment would be a landslide toward Yes. There is a lot of grumpy old farts out there that are already mad enough at the size of this city and what they perceive as inconveniences caused by an influx of people.
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True, but if I was 80+ years old, I would be voting YES.
I mean screw it, I'd be dead by 2026.
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11-06-2018, 04:10 PM
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#162
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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Originally Posted by Johnhitbox
No... the complaints are about the traffic during the work week and trains being full and the cost of entrance.
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Huh? Traffic is usually dead during Stampede because no one is working. The train is always full during rush hour, Stampede or not (and winter has far more transit complaining). The cost of entrance is a complaint made even by people who actually like the Stampede.
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11-06-2018, 04:11 PM
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#163
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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Just got back from Cardel rec in Shawnessy and....yikes.
Lines were over 100 people long and wait times 25-30 minutes. Im going to go back around11 tomorrow as the guy said it was much less busy earlier on.
If I was to guess looking at the crowd, they would be heavily weighted to the no side, but that was middle of the afternoon and an older demographic for sure.
Last edited by transplant99; 11-06-2018 at 05:05 PM.
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11-06-2018, 04:30 PM
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#164
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In the Sin Bin
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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Huh? Traffic is usually dead during Stampede because no one is working. The train is always full during rush hour, Stampede or not (and winter has far more transit complaining). The cost of entrance is a complaint made even by people who actually like the Stampede.
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You should tell my wife that the trains aren't jammed during stampede week  she works downtown 
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11-06-2018, 04:34 PM
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#165
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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Afternoon rush hour is awful, morning is generally better because again downtown is a ghost town for work. Anyway, if we do end up hosting I hope we can avoid the cowboy ####. It's really unbecoming at this point.
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11-06-2018, 04:36 PM
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#166
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15
Well yeah day 1 of advanced voting during business hours, who else would be there voting?
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When i was there i would guess average ages 40-50....somewhere in there.
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11-06-2018, 04:43 PM
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#167
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: 161 St. - Yankee Stadium
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Afternoon rush hour is awful, morning is generally better because again downtown is a ghost town for work. Anyway, if we do end up hosting I hope we can avoid the cowboy ####. It's really unbecoming at this point.
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This x 100. I'm glad we can agree on something (other than E=NG, obviously)!
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11-06-2018, 04:45 PM
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#168
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Violating Copyrights
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Afternoon rush hour is awful, morning is generally better because again downtown is a ghost town for work. Anyway, if we do end up hosting I hope we can avoid the cowboy ####. It's really unbecoming at this point.
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#### that. In 2026, I’ll be wearing my boots and my ‘88 Sun Ice duster for two straight weeks leaving floor pizzas at the bottom of every C-Train staircase in the city.
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11-06-2018, 04:48 PM
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#169
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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Originally Posted by Barnes
#### that. In 2026, I’ll be wearing my boots and my ‘88 Sun Ice duster for two straight weeks leaving floor pizzas at the bottom of every C-Train staircase in the city.
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Mmmm, cold floor pizzas
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11-06-2018, 04:55 PM
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#170
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One of the Nine
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: 福岡市
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I voted YES today in the advance poll. Quite a turn out and line-up in Kincora, somewhat surprised at this. Part of me thinks this is a lot of public money to spend, but then again if we don't get the Olympics I don't see money simply being 're-allocated' instead. I do see the benefits of rallying around something, this city is in dire need of that.
Though it is of course partisan, I liked this video, saw it AFTER I voted: https://www.facebook.com/yescalgary2...3225391520065/
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11-06-2018, 05:42 PM
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#171
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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Just heard that over 14,000 votes were cast already today....that sounds very very high to me. Good for all to get out and be heard though.
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11-06-2018, 06:06 PM
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#172
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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More details to come (certainly don’t take it from me) but reports coming out tonight that the Federal minister of public safety will sign an agreement to pick up security cost overruns (CBC), and the $200m overrun insurance is available at likely a lower cost than the budgeted $20 or 10% for those doubting its availability.
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11-06-2018, 06:06 PM
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#173
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Beto!!!! 167k ahead!!!
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11-06-2018, 06:20 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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Nobody cares about any of these sports normally so i cant understand what changes other than your expected to spend billions for a couple weeks. No thanks.
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11-06-2018, 06:25 PM
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#175
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Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov
Beto!!!! 167k ahead!!!
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What’s this about?
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11-06-2018, 06:31 PM
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#176
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Join Date: Apr 2012
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Originally Posted by Weitz
What’s this about?
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Beto is gonna bring the Winter Olympics to Texas.
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11-06-2018, 06:31 PM
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#177
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Beto is gonna bring the Winter Olympics to Texas.
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Now that’s something I can get behind.
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11-06-2018, 06:32 PM
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#178
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Originally Posted by JBR
More details to come (certainly don’t take it from me) but reports coming out tonight that the Federal minister of public safety will sign an agreement to pick up security cost overruns (CBC), and the $200m overrun insurance is available at likely a lower cost than the budgeted $20 or 10% for those doubting its availability.
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Both of these things were presented to the Olympic Assessment Committee of Council today.
Tweets from CBC City reporter, Scott Dippel...
RE: Insurance
RE: Security cost overrun
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11-06-2018, 07:09 PM
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#179
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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Why? Sports fans (i.e. the vast majority of this board) being more on board with a sports project than the general public? More news at 11...
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Hard to say how big of a role that plays. Over 30% of this board voted that not using public funds for an arena was worth the Flames leaving. In another poll, almost 50% voted that they didn’t want anything more than $50m going to fund the arena, even if it meant the Flames leaving.
“This board support spending on sports projects” is not a reliable narrative.
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11-06-2018, 07:16 PM
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#180
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Maryland State House, Annapolis
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Hard to say how big of a role that plays. Over 30% of this board voted that not using public funds for an arena was worth the Flames leaving. In another poll, almost 50% voted that they didn’t want anything more than $50m going to fund the arena, even if it meant the Flames leaving.
“This board support spending on sports projects” is not a reliable narrative.
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And I would guess in the general public you'd see 40% and 60%. But both of those deals were objectively terrible, whereas this one is far more reasonable.
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