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Fuzz · 10-19-2021, 07:45 AM

Weird...my lawn signs are gone this morning. They were there last night.

psyang · 10-19-2021, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by FlameOn

Can't believe PedoChu won in Ward 4, even without the sexual misconduct have people never watched a council meeting? Yea I get the sexual misconduct news broke pretty late, but if you hired someone to build your garage and you had to constantly explain to him how to do basics like framing, bet you would be looking for a new builder pretty quick. Like the guy is never prepared for his meetings, constantly has to have procedure explained to him, etc. How are ppl okay with this?

Has his victory been announced anywhere? All the sites I've looked at still show 2 polling stations yet to report, and Chu with a 700 vote lead.

The Big Chill · 10-19-2021, 08:01 AM

How are we still waiting on polls? Did somebody hide the ballots to force a re-vote?

surferguy · 10-19-2021, 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by The Big Chill

How are we still waiting on polls? Did somebody hide the ballots to force a re-vote?

Perhaps there is a publication ban on them?

tvp2003 · 10-19-2021, 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by psyang

Has his victory been announced anywhere? All the sites I've looked at still show 2 polling stations yet to report, and Chu with a 700 vote lead.

Still a (slim) chance Kelly could pull it out, depending on what other stations still have to report (as noted last night, one of them is apparently Kelly's home community of Winston Heights).

I know the votes have technically been cast already, but here is some DJ mojo in any event:

CliffFletcher · 10-19-2021, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by GGG

People complain that CP leans left and isn’t representative.

It isn’t representative. Farkas got 30 per cent of vote in the city. He sure didn’t have the support of 30 per cent of CP.

The CP forums are probably representative of the CP user-base, which is overwhelmingly university-educated, white-collar men aged 25-45.

Jiri Hrdina · 10-19-2021, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

white-collar men aged 25-45.

Probably now closer to 30-55
We all gettin' old.

Erick Estrada · 10-19-2021, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by tvp2003

It doesn’t seem far fetched to me at all. If you were going to go ahead and prepare an official statement, why wouldn’t you disseminate that to your 130k followers? And instead do so after polls closed?

Seems to me she still wanted Chu elected, but she didn’t want to be formally or publicly endorsing him. I could be wrong.

I just think it's a little offside to be blaming her when the issue no different that it was in Ward 7 for years. Ward 2 keeps voting in a representative that a lot of the people in the city loathe.

nik- · 10-19-2021, 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I just think it's a little offside to be blaming her when the issue no different that it was in Ward 7 for years. Ward 2 keeps voting in a representative that a lot of the people in the city loathe.

I'm sorry, what? You're comparing a kid ####er to Druh Farrell because you don't like her. Your frothing at the mouth over her over the years has been hilarious, but this is just too much.

woob · 10-19-2021, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Fuzz

Weird...my lawn signs are gone this morning. They were there last night.

Our Gondek sign and a few of the neighbour's Gondek signs were gone yesterday morning. Strangely enough, the Farkas ones were still there.

tvp2003 · 10-19-2021, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I just think it's a little offside to be blaming her when the issue no different that it was in Ward 7 for years. Ward 2 keeps voting in a representative that a lot of the people in the city loathe.

What does that have to do with Michelle Rempel Garner?

She is the MP for Calgary Centre-North, which is pretty much right in the middle of Ward 4. The people that live here are who she represents.

I mean, I understand why she might have done it. But that doesn't make it right IMO.

Ozy_Flame · 10-19-2021, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by tvp2003

What does that have to do with Michelle Rempel Garner?

She is the MP for Calgary Centre-North, which is pretty much right in the middle of Ward 4. The people that live here are who she represents.

She also represents Ward 4 residents in Oklahoma too.

Slava · 10-19-2021, 09:11 AM

As far as the DST referendum, I took a quick look through Lethbridge, Medicine Hat and Red Deer and they all voted in favour. The margins are basically 52-48 (or within that), I definitely didn't do the math, but I'd guess that we're sitting at about 50/50 with the southerly results at this point.

Lubicon · 10-19-2021, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Flabbibulin

You’d have to think Lloydminster is going to vote overwhelmingly for permanent DST, so to be in synch with the Saskatchewan side of town- which alone could put a huge dent in the 10,000 vote gap we have in Calgary. I’m dreading that the yes vote is going to win this.

Interesting article on this situation. Keep in mind 1/3 or the population doesn't get to vote on this in Lloyd. There is also the argument that it makes sense to stay aligned with Alberta since many O&G operations on both sides of the border are aligned with Alberta time in order to coordinate with head office in Calgary.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...city-1.6213134

RichieRich · 10-19-2021, 09:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Cappy

We don't think Albertans are dumb. Well we do, but we think most people are dumb - Albertan or not.

Well hey… over the course of your average week just feel good knowing only half of the folks you interacted with are above average intelligence. Heh heh

getbak · 10-19-2021, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Flabbibulin

You’d have to think Lloydminster is going to vote overwhelmingly for permanent DST, so to be in synch with the Saskatchewan side of town- which alone could put a huge dent in the 10,000 vote gap we have in Calgary. I’m dreading that the yes vote is going to win this.

The Saskatchewan side of Lloyd switches their clocks the same as Alberta. Living on the Saskatchewan side is virtually the same as living on the Alberta side -- no PST, daylight savings, etc. The only difference is things like your provincial taxes and car registration. Day to day, you don't really notice a difference.

If someone has to do a lot of business with people who live outside the Lloyd bubble in Saskatchewan, they might have been motivated to vote to stay on DST, but it still has the same issues with late sunrises in the winter that the other northern cities have. So, in December, you go to work and it's not quite light yet and you go home at the end of the day and it's already dark.

Also, another thing to note about Lloyd is their municipal elections are conducted on the Saskatchewan schedule, so yesterday was not their normal election day. Alberta people in Lloyd would have only been voting on the provincial ballot yesterday, so I'd expect the voter turnout to be extremely low.

Jimmy Stang · 10-19-2021, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by getbak

The Saskatchewan side of Lloyd switches their clocks the same as Alberta. Living on the Saskatchewan side is virtually the same as living on the Alberta side -- no PST, daylight savings, etc. The only difference is things like your provincial taxes and car registration. Day to day, you don't really notice a difference.

Honest question - is there side of Lloydminster that people prefer to live and do business on? It seems that they have done their best to make both sides as "equal" as possible, but if someone was opening a business or buying a house, where would a local do it?

I have never actually been there, and don't see it happening anytime soon, but the border town thing is something I have wondered.

cSpooge · 10-19-2021, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by woob

Our Gondek sign and a few of the neighbour's Gondek signs were gone yesterday morning. Strangely enough, the Farkas ones were still there.

https://www.calgary.ca/csps/abs/byla...ion-signs.html

They have 72 hours after polls close to remove the signs, so they're just getting an early start so they meet the rules.

MarchHare · 10-19-2021, 09:58 AM

What's going on with the last two remaining polling stations in Ward 4? If there was an issue with the scantron machines, surely they could have just hand counted all the ballots by now, right?

Fuzz · 10-19-2021, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by MarchHare

What's going on with the last two remaining polling stations in Ward 4? If there was an issue with the scantron machines, surely they could have just hand counted all the ballots by now, right?

Or brought in new machines. It's odd.