MF YYC Politics - there, I mega did it

[You Need a Thneed]

I will vote for any Rhino Party councillors.

[Jimmy Stang]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

The Calgary Party vs. A Better Calgary Party.

Which is better?

One has a few UCP folks involved, including Craig Chandler. I would sooner vote for actual anal secretion if it ended up on my ballot.

I suppose a worse party could come along - it is Alberta after all.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

I personally won't be voting for any candidate that is part of a municipal political party. I already didn't like the PACs in Calgary and their funding/support for their preferred slate of candidates and I hate official parties even more.

I went to their launch event last night - got the t-shirt! I've been on the fence about getting involved because I am strongly opposed to party politics at the municipal level. However, I may be even more strongly opposed to a conservative majority of councillors working in concert to actively make our city worse off - according to what I value, obviously. I vascillate between thinking what would be worse, a conservative municipal gov't or a provincial one? I do know having them both being conservative would be plain awful, to put it mildly.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

The Calgary Party vs. A Better Calgary Party.

Which is better?

My vote is on hold waiting for The Best Calgary Party to form. Voting for A Better Calgary Party is like doing an 8 minute abs workout.

[Reggie Dunlop]

The Edmonton is No Good Party.

[Sr. Mints]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Otherwise known as "The Canadian".

The worst kind of pizza.

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by Sr. Mints

The worst kind of pizza.

Whoa whoa whoa; pepperoni, mushroom, and bacon (real side bacon, not that cylindrical ham-coated-with-peameal crap) is the bomb.

You can put whatever else you want on it -- olives, green pepper, onion, sausage -- but those three are a trifecta of deliciousness on a pizza.

[Sr. Mints]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

Whoa whoa whoa; pepperoni, mushroom, and bacon (real side bacon, not that cylindrical ham-coated-with-peameal crap) is the bomb.

You can put whatever else you want on it -- olives, green pepper, onion, sausage -- but those three are a trifecta of deliciousness on a pizza.

Yeah, it's the bacon that kills it for me. First, is it bacon? It it bacon-flavoured ground beef or ground sausage, or god forbid whatever those bacon bits sold in bags at the grocery store which for some reason never has to be refrigerated and expires in 2047?

Plus bacon has to be cooked crispy, yet not burned. And more places screw it up than not, especially on pizza.

[CliffFletcher]

Bacon is awesome. Bacon on pizza is not.

[PepsiFree]

Bow tie does bacon on pizza really well. Not quite as affordable as a Little Caesars Hot N Ready, but you can certainly tell the difference and really see what bacon on a pizza can be if you don’t stick strictly to lowest form of the stuff.

[Bigtime]

This is definitely municipal politics in play (also has a cool chart that you can search communities for totals of pipe breaks 1990-2024):

https://livewirecalgary.com/2024/11/...ss-montgomery/

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

This is definitely municipal politics in play (also has a cool chart that you can search communities for totals of pipe breaks 1990-2024):

https://livewirecalgary.com/2024/11/...ss-montgomery/

My community is #1, we are the best!

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

My community is #1, we are the best!

I was quite surprised with how few we had, being such an old community.

[TorqueDog]

Downtown and Beltline almost never have any, which is kinda nice.

[Torture]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

This is definitely municipal politics in play (also has a cool chart that you can search communities for totals of pipe breaks 1990-2024):

https://livewirecalgary.com/2024/11/...ss-montgomery/

We need to pause all developments in Bowness and Montgomery and do a review because they are *checks notes* the #4 and #20 most common areas for water mains to break!

Should we do a review of infrastructure in the #1, #2, and #3, and 5-19 most common communities for breaks? Particularly 1-3, Varsity, Huntington Hills, and Penbrooke Meadows?
Nah, #### em - this is about Bowness and Montgomery!

As a side benefit this would effectively kill the "controversial" social housing project (https://www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/com...d_for_bowness/) and keep the poors out of Bowness which I'm sure this has absolutely nothing to do with and is just a strange coincidence.

[Ugly Kid Joe]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

This is definitely municipal politics in play (also has a cool chart that you can search communities for totals of pipe breaks 1990-2024):

https://livewirecalgary.com/2024/11/...ss-montgomery/

Thanks for the link. Rather nifty way to stop the blanket re-zoning in Bowness and Montgomery according to the article.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Torture

We need to pause all developments in Bowness and Montgomery and do a review because they are *checks notes* the #4 and #20 most common areas for water mains to break!

Should we do a review of infrastructure in the #1, #2, and #3, and 5-19 most common communities for breaks? Particularly 1-3, Varsity, Huntington Hills, and Penbrooke Meadows?
Nah, #### em - this is about Bowness and Montgomery!

As a side benefit this would effectively kill the "controversial" social housing project (https://www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/com...d_for_bowness/) and keep the poors out of Bowness which I'm sure this has absolutely nothing to do with and is just a strange coincidence.

In all seriousness, because I joked about Varsity being number 1, if you actually look at what is being presented the majority of the breaks in Varsity were 20+ years ago and over the last 5 or so years there have been very few issues. While in Bowness the opposite is true. I'm not necessarily sure that the numbers point towards a need to re-evaluate development though but just something to consider.

[Torture]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

In all seriousness, because I joked about Varsity being number 1, if you actually look at what is being presented the majority of the breaks in Varsity were 20+ years ago and over the last 5 or so years there have been very few issues. While in Bowness the opposite is true. I'm not necessarily sure that the numbers point towards a need to re-evaluate development though but just something to consider.

Fair - it actually looks like with the exception of Bowness, most communities have improved pretty significantly since the 90s. (Thanks Gondek, right? )

Bowness was good in the 90s, not so great in the 2000s, about the same as the 2000s now. So whether it's flat or an improvement seems to depend where you start the clock.

Montgomery I'd call flat to minor improvement in the number of breaks since the 90s. Their inclusion here objectively makes no sense.

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Bow tie does bacon on pizza really well. Not quite as affordable as a Little Caesars Hot N Ready, but you can certainly tell the difference and really see what bacon on a pizza can be if you don’t stick strictly to lowest form of the stuff.

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.

[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!