[GDT] YYC Votes 2025

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by btimbit

Ward 12, 13 and 14, just embarrassing

3 wards that will have councilors that will definitely vote to repeal blanket zoning.
3 wards that will not be affected in the least by blanket rezoning.

I hope the good folks of Auburn bay will sleep easy at night knowing they won't have to worry about someone tearing down the 3 year old house next to them and putting up a 4 plex......


I say this as a supporter of blanket rezoning who lives in an inner city neighborhood that is very strongly affected by it.

[puffnstuff]

Originally Posted by btimbit

Ward 12, 13 and 14, just embarrassing

And 11

[kevman]

Originally Posted by Bill Bumface

Are you talking about when you're biking or walking somewhere? Because if they are in your trunk and driving, it doesn't matter. I definitely have not a bag walking/biking many times when I've decided to grab something for sure.

Yeah, I don't keep reusable bags in my pocket. (I can count on one hand the number of times I've taken a car grocery shopping in the last 15 years.)

I think it's a dumb policy and in our household case it has probably increased our overall consumption considering the abundance of reusable bags we've collected.

I'm just thankful that my kids are almost out of the "mash their paper straw into pulp so they can't finish their drink" phase.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

3 wards that will have councilors that will definitely vote to repeal blanket zoning.
3 wards that will not be affected in the least by blanket rezoning.

I hope the good folks of Auburn bay will sleep easy at night knowing they won't have to worry about someone tearing down the 3 year old house next to them and putting up a 4 plex......


I say this as a supporter of blanket rezoning who lives in an inner city neighborhood that is very strongly affected by it.

I’d guess most of the lots would be way too narrow in these wards for 4 plex’s anyways.

My dad who lives in a suburb in the NW was completely opposed to the blanket re zoning because “it would #### up all the parking on the street”. He lives in a 55+ townhouse complex with a condo board that in no way would ever allow a 4 plex to be built. He also never visits any of the communities that are experiencing densification, the whole thing was too weird.

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by Mazrim;9545461[B

]I'm still processing that the Recall Gondek guy somehow won. [/B]I'll never forget his idea that "the provincial government helped me with the recall so they'll help me with other things". I'm sure he'll quickly realize that they won't care about him now.

Not only did he win, he crushed it.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Lubicon

Not only did he win, he crushed it.

Crushed it? He won 9154 - 19852.

[WideReceiver]

After several days canvassing for Forever Canadian in front of a Safeway store it was funny all the people walking out carrying several items in their hands and arms. My wife and I are never without a permanent bag.

[Engine09]

That's me half the time, I usually remember I need something on the way home from work and stop in while I have about a dozen reusable bags at home.

Only thing that has changed for me is I now have to buy small plastic garbage bags instead of getting a 2nd use out of the old Safeway plastic bags.

[#-3]

Originally Posted by WideReceiver

After several days canvassing for Forever Canadian in front of a Safeway store it was funny all the people walking out carrying several items in their hands and arms. My wife and I are never without a permanent bag.

I do 6 item shops all of the time, because I refuse to take a plastic bag if they offer, I refuse to buy a reusable bag, because I have a basket with 700 of them in my pantry, and I never remember to bring one with me, so six items a day, 5 days a week. then 1 larger shop on the weekend twice a month.

[Burn13]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

Crushed it? He won 9154 - 19852.

7 nominees for a civic election and 9000+ votes? It's a crushing.

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

And 11

Only thing embarrassing about Ward 11 would have been if Penner had gotten a second term. Ward only narrowly lost to her last time.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by kevman

Yeah, I don't keep reusable bags in my pocket. (I can count on one hand the number of times I've taken a car grocery shopping in the last 15 years.)

I think it's a dumb policy and in our household case it has probably increased our overall consumption considering the abundance of reusable bags we've collected.

I'm just thankful that my kids are almost out of the "mash their paper straw into pulp so they can't finish their drink" phase.

But you could at little convenience to yourself.

It’s interesting that people who seem to struggle with it a bit think the policy itself is the problem or try to make things political and the people who don’t also don’t seem to care either way.

I find it very easy and I can’t say I’ve thought about any related policies or viewed bags through a political lens at any point unless someone specifically brings it up.

If they allowed all the free plastic bags you wanted and stopped selling or giving away reusable bags it wouldn’t impact my life at all.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Burn13

7 nominees for a civic election and 9000+ votes? It's a crushing.

I can only snicker at 32% being called a crushing.

[Wormius]

If you look around, they actually have very good bags that you can carry around really easily. They’re made in a material almost like those thin rain coats that compress into almost nothing.

[fotze2]

Re-zoning is loved by most wealthy right wing friends. This is not partisan.

I can make a fatatonne putting an 80-plex on this lot and screw everyone from miles around. That is as right wing as it can be.

Fake left developers are the worst of all them.

[Wormius]

I am not sure. Developers hate it because they want to build just in greenfield lots where it’s cheap for them to build. You’re not going to see the Wenzels tearing down SFH in the ‘burbs to build a duplex or fourplex. I am pretty sure they view rezoning to R-CG as taking a piece of out their pie.

[WideReceiver]

Originally Posted by #-3

I do 6 item shops all of the time, because I refuse to take a plastic bag if they offer, I refuse to buy a reusable bag, because I have a basket with 700 of them in my pantry, and I never remember to bring one with me, so six items a day, 5 days a week. then 1 larger shop on the weekend twice a month.

WTF do you not carry reusable bags in your vehicles? My wife insists on having about 20. Truth.

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

I can only snicker at 32% being called a crushing.

Beat the next nearest candidate by almost double, that’s a crushing.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Lubicon

Beat the next nearest candidate by almost double, that’s a crushing.

UCP math

[curves2000]

People may laugh at the Landon Johnson for winning but in a conversation the other day with 2 council members and associated staff (re-elected and stepping down) his ground game was extremely strong. It sounds like he reached out to a lot of political people and picked their brains on how to turn this into a winning campaign.

He is not my ward and I don't know anything about him but this has the civic version of Ruth Ellen Brosseau written all over it, the famous NDP bartender MP who ended up being an amazing NDP MP for her people. People laughed at her but was considered a great MP.