MF YYC Politics - there, I mega did it

[Reggie Dunlop]

This is why need a Bowness Secessionist movement. To separate from the yoke of Calgary City.

The Bowness Bloc Party!

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by Torture

Is Bowness infrastructure being stressed due to growth?

Well let's see - when they were annexed in the 1960s, they had a population of about 9,000 people.
2021 census is 11,000, unfortunately no 2024 numbers that I can find. Anyways, about 2,000 more people over 60 years doesn't seem all too insane of a stress on infrastructure in a growing city. For reference, Calgary's population at that time was about 260,000 people. But we better stop growth in Bowness! It's too much!

hehe, growth in Bone-ess.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by fotze2

I was just going to mention them. Also Villages pizza, both did it right. Crispy and real.

Also related, Mcdonalds really needs to boost their bacon game. The old bacon double cheeseburgers were my favorite burger of all time, no anymore.

McDonalds has the weirdest bacon. Just flat, hard little slabs that are vaguely salty?

Terrible. Bacon can’t be that difficult.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by Torture

Is Bowness infrastructure being stressed due to growth?

Well let's see - when they were annexed in the 1960s, they had a population of about 9,000 people.
2021 census is 11,000, unfortunately no 2024 numbers that I can find although the City had been projecting it to grow significantly below the % for the rest of the the city up to 2024 - https://www.calgary.ca/content/dam/w...bowness-pp.pdf).

Anyways, about 2,000 more people over 60 years doesn't seem all too insane of a stress on infrastructure in a growing city. For reference, Calgary's population at that time was about 260,000 people. But we better stop growth in Bowness! It's too much!

Careful now, Sonya Sharp doesn't like actual stats. Doesn't play well in the sticks.

[Stillman16]

A lot of the higher break areas are in the higher areas of the city (pumped pressure) and near the plants (pumped pressure). The areas with less breaks are in the lower areas of the city (which are fed by PRV's - pressure reduced from a higher pressure area).

If there are higher buildings going up in the lower neighbourhoods, then they may require a pressure boost, so this could also add to the risk in these neighbourhoods when the previously lower pressure lines have their pressure increased to feed the higher buildings.

That being said, the area in Bowness and Montgomery probably shouldn't have any higher buildings added, that may need higher pressure, but as long as the buildings aren't higher, the demand the extra population would add, should REDUCE the pressure in the mains....

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by fotze2

I was just going to mention them. Also Villages pizza, both did it right. Crispy and real.

Also related, Mcdonalds really needs to boost their bacon game. The old bacon double cheeseburgers were my favorite burger of all time, no anymore.

When it first came out, Burger King's Bacon Double Cheeseburger was a winner.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

When it first came out, Burger King's Bacon Double Cheeseburger was a winner.

Have you ever gone to that Burger Place on Fremont street in Vegas that has the medical Red Cross on it and defibrillators everywhere?

I've never eaten there...but I've been tempted...

[Fuzz]

It's also pretty meaningless data without correlating it to pipe age.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

It's also pretty meaningless data without correlating it to pipe age.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Torture

Is Bowness infrastructure being stressed due to growth?

Well let's see - when they were annexed in the 1960s, they had a population of about 9,000 people.
2021 census is 11,000, unfortunately no 2024 numbers that I can find although the City had been projecting it to grow significantly below the % for the rest of the the city up to 2024 - https://www.calgary.ca/content/dam/w...bowness-pp.pdf).

Anyways, about 2,000 more people over 60 years doesn't seem all too insane of a stress on infrastructure in a growing city. For reference, Calgary's population at that time was about 260,000 people. But we better stop growth in Bowness! It's too much!

But have you seen those people and are you aware of how hard on the water and sewer infrastructure those 2,000 people are?

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by Locke

Have you ever gone to that Burger Place on Fremont street in Vegas that has the medical Red Cross on it and defibrillators everywhere?

I've never eaten there...but I've been tempted...

The Heart Attack Grill? Hell yes I have. It's a hilarious sideshow. I first learned about it from a news report on the place, and later saw it on Showtime's '7 Deadly Sins'.

If you go, get a 'Single Bypass Burger', that is all any normal human being should ever order from that place.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

The Heart Attack Grill? Hell yes I have. It's a hilarious sideshow. I first learned about it from a news report on the place, and later saw it on Showtime's '7 Deadly Sins'.

If you go, get a 'Single Bypass Burger', that is all any normal human being should ever order from that place.

I'm going to Vegas in February so...if I can escape the Wedding I might hit that up.

[Torture]

According to City of Calgary data, 75% of Bowness' housing supply was built before 1980. That remaining 25% in the past 40 years is sure wrecking the infrastructure. I for one am glad that Sharp and Wong are trying to put a stop to it!

[chemgear]

Hand over those Trudeau vote buying bucks.

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/budget-ad...2025-1.7120783


Budget adjustments passed by Calgary city council; property taxes to go up 3.6 per cent in 2025

Gondek expressed pride in "protecting mental-health funding," "investing in safety," "protecting communities and recreation," "preserving support for affordable housing," and "protecting low-income support."

McLean told media he feels "there's still fat to be cut."

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by chemgear

McLean told media he feels "there's still fat to be cut."

I saw him at a whiskey tasting event last week, he must be talking about himself.

[GGG]

That’s pretty good for holding the line on budget. Less than pop growth and inflation on the overall budget. The increase only due to transferring non residential to res.

[SebC]

It might be interesting to see the results if instead of being yes/no, we treat budget votes like a ballot: we put multiple budgets on the ballot and it's instant runoff voting to pick one.

Easy to grandstand and say 'No' when you don't have to present a viable alternative. Like with the party system the UCP is implementing, especially if it converges on two parties (hello, Duverger's law), perhaps both parties should be obliged to offer budgets.

Change the role of the opposition from "to oppose" to "to present alternatives" and I think it would push voters and politicians into better thought patterns where opportunity cost is considered.

[curves2000]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

I saw him at a whiskey tasting event last week, he must be talking about himself.

There is ALWAYS fat and budgets to be trimmed and slashed. It doesn't matter if its corporations, private enterprise, household budgets and more. People always are able to actually reduce spending without drastically affecting results.

People would be amazed at how much costs can be taken out of a business or a government department without actually touching wages, benefits, headcount and more.

When people are incentivized, it's almost like magic things happen and all of a sudden everybody becomes frugal. There is always a fine balance between frugality and value but the notion that budgets should only go one way is usually reserved for government.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by curves2000

There is ALWAYS fat and budgets to be trimmed and slashed. It doesn't matter if its corporations, private enterprise, household budgets and more. People always are able to actually reduce spending without drastically affecting results.

People would be amazed at how much costs can be taken out of a business or a government department without actually touching wages, benefits, headcount and more.

When people are incentivized, it's almost like magic things happen and all of a sudden everybody becomes frugal. There is always a fine balance between frugality and value but the notion that budgets should only go one way is usually reserved for government.

Always is a strong word in this statement.

Can you provide any examples of many businesses that haven’t seen their costs go up over the last few years?

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by iggy_oi

Always is a strong word in this statement.

Can you provide any examples of many businesses that haven’t seen their costs go up over the last few years?

It’s not that “always” is strong, it’s that it’s totally meaningless.

Of course you can always make cuts. But cutting budget isn’t just cutting money, it’s almost always (outside of rare exceptions) cutting something of value. Just like fat, people say “trim the fat” but there’s good fat and there’s bad fat.

It’s just nonsense corporate speak that makes people feel important but ultimately it has no substance.

I think most people understand that the reasons budgets almost always go one way in government is because that’s the direction population and costs are almost going.