Her view is basically that once elected, a government can do anything they want without restriction. Laws should not prevent an elected official from doing anything. This, if you need clarifying, is insane. It's also basically Donald Trump's view of governing. Not shocking she'd choose the path of a dementia addled diaper filler, given her tendency to gravitate towards the dumbest #### imaginable.
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How can the premier of a province (puke in my mouth) be so ignorant about the actual, literal construction of our democratic system? Being a gatekeeper on constitutional questions is the entire reason for courts' existence. That she can espouse this view and retain any supporters at all is actually astounding.
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I'm not gonna read the source drivel, but on point 10 I believe one of the bike lane cases in Ontario was a charter case. It was basically the equivalent of a gov't trying to remove food safety regulations that keep poison out of food while giving no justification or reasoning for what it will achieve, acknowledging that people will die from this change, and adding a clause that those victims can't sue the gov't.
The ruling wasn't really about the gov'ts right to remove bike lanes, just that they need to make a remotely coherent argument to do it. And this is relevant as I saw a headline about a fresh Rick Bell collection of four word paragraphs on bike lane removal, which is probably going to require the NWC yet again.
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Her view is basically that once elected, a government can do anything they want without restriction. Laws should not prevent an elected official from doing anything. This, if you need clarifying, is insane. It's also basically Donald Trump's view of governing. Not shocking she'd choose the path of a dementia addled diaper filler, given her tendency to gravitate towards the dumbest #### imaginable.
I don't think that opinion would extend to others rights to govern if elected.
She would bitch, wine, protest, sue, and pull out any stop to obstruct anything they do.
She is too stupid and disinterested in other peoples opinions to engage in a discourse. So she just throws out her half baked ides, reels when they don't work. And assumes everyone else is as stupid and ill considered as she is, but is also wrong for disagreeing with her, because she never considered that by engaging with others, you can grow and improve on your ideas. There is nothing to learn so she must be right even when she's wrong, so if you disagree with her you must be wrong even when you're right.
Good interview from Energi Media. Walking through the recall topic from the union perspective and how they did not get a chance to kick off the recall process as non-union citizens beat them to the punch.
McGowan also stresses how his team is treading extra carefully to ensure everything is above board and aligned with the laws as they are built.
Good interview from Energi Media. Walking through the recall topic from the union perspective and how they did not get a chance to kick off the recall process as non-union citizens beat them to the punch.
McGowan also stresses how his team is treading extra carefully to ensure everything is above board and aligned with the laws as they are built.
Bold prediction: more legislated red tape for Unions incoming!
Bell: Bike lane crackdown looms, Smith's UCP demands Calgary numbers
'We can do this the easy way or the hard way,' says Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen, as Calgary city refuses to reveal bike lane numbers
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“I hope the new city council in Calgary sees the light. It’s frustrating the message isn’t sinking in at city halls in Calgary and Edmonton. Other provinces have legislation to rein in ridiculous bike lanes and that is something we’re considering in Alberta.
“This type of social engineering, trying to change people’s behaviour when they don’t want to change is just ruining cities by taking away their vehicle lanes and parking. It is stupid.”
#### you you ####ing stupid ####. Can't get rid of these #### holes soon enough. What a goddamned disaster. Ya, heaven forbid there is a safe way for my wife to commute to work without being runover by ####holes in monster trucks. Real public service you're doing, Devin. Go #### an EV charger.
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The bike-lane-loving keyboard warriors will no doubt ask of Dreeshen: Why should you care, bro?
And #### you, too, Rick, you ####ing toady. Your endless rants about bike lanes and bridges for decades are why this remains an issue of discussion. Maybe try exercising for 5 minutes of your life you before forming an opinion on something that has zero effect on you, you worthless fat ####.
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How can the premier of a province (puke in my mouth) be so ignorant about the actual, literal construction of our democratic system? Being a gatekeeper on constitutional questions is the entire reason for courts' existence. That she can espouse this view and retain any supporters at all is actually astounding.
Mandate of the people.
Seems to be all she thinks she needs to whatever she wants. To the UCP this is freedom, they have been elected by the people (although not the whole province mind you) and they are enacting the peoples will and anything in their way is stopping freedom.
#### you you ####ing stupid ####. Can't get rid of these #### holes soon enough. What a goddamned disaster. Ya, heaven forbid there is a safe way for my wife to commute to work without being runover by ####holes in monster trucks. Real public service you're doing, Devin. Go #### an EV charger.
And #### you, too, Rick, you ####ing toady. Your endless rants about bike lanes and bridges for decades are why this remains an issue of discussion. Maybe try exercising for 5 minutes of your life you before forming an opinion on something that has zero effect on you, you worthless fat ####.
You OK Fuzz? You seem a little high strung this morning.
I don't think it is unrealistic to ask for usage statistics. It is part of proper engineering and use-case analyis before throwing more money at something. The fact that the city admin is stonewalling on providing usage numbers is a problem.
You OK Fuzz? You seem a little high strung this morning.
I don't think it is unrealistic to ask for usage statistics. It is part of proper engineering and use-case analyis before throwing more money at something. The fact that the city admin is stonewalling on providing usage numbers is a problem.
#### that. These bad faith monsters don't deserve any benefit of the doubt. They can release their APP survey data first. Dreeshen can go #### himself. I can't imagine any other human would want to.
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Yup, there are no good faith decisions being made here. Don't give these mother####ers an inch. I can't believe we need to keep repeating this. Doing the right thing means getting run over, because these people will never do the right thing. Why the #### do we keep playing into their hands? So dumb. If you want to be like Democrats in America, I guess you can pretend they'll throw you a bone. For anyone else, cooperation is suicide. That's not how these people govern. Resist is the only option.
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I don't think it is unrealistic to ask for usage statistics. It is part of proper engineering and use-case analyis before throwing more money at something. The fact that the city admin is stonewalling on providing usage numbers is a problem.
It's a bad faith request. It would be like building Deerfoot from 16th Ave to McKnight, and then building Deerfoot from Douglasdale to McKenzie Towne and asking why Deerfoot isn't being used as much as planned. We have a good bike lane network started, but it's missing key connections to make it truly useful to the average person. There's so many bike lanes that disappear at random places and that hinders the usability of the network.
We already know from Ontario's fight with Toronto that restoring these "valuable" lost parking spots and lanes won't actually improve travel times for anyone. It's ideology over true long-term planning. If the UCP were truly concerned with travel times they wouldn't have chosen to fight the green line the way they are.
Finally, let's be clear here: Alberta Transportation is a car-focused government agency. They dabble in other areas, but cars are 95% of their focus. It's a fight to get them to include pedestrian friendly infrastructure at the best of times. They're getting better over time, but what they specialize in is so far outside what we encounter in urban areas that they shouldn't even be commenting on what cities need for accommodating all users.
EDIT: I see others beat me to the punch. I'm gonna leave this as-is though.
He's also already completely lied about statistics he already has in front of him a few months ago, so why would anyone expect any different now? These people have no morals. They don't care what statistics show. They don't care what experts say. Y'all know this.
We should absolutely, definitely be going nuclear.
No, not like Fuzz on a near-daily basis, I mean for energy generation.
As for the bike lanes, couldn't the city just enshrine its bike lane priorities under the municipal charter somehow? Though, I guess then the UCP could just repeal allowing municipal charters. [shrug]
