[GT] Calgary Municipal Election 2021

[getbak]

Livewire has a nice visualization of the community breakdown for the mayor voting: https://livewirecalgary.com/2021/10/...-mayoral-race/

Farkas had his strongest support in East Calgary. This was also the part of the city with the lowest vaccine uptake. I don't know if the two are related.

Farkas only finished ahead in 3 of the neighbourhoods in his old ward (Cedarbrae, Willow Park, and Elbow Park - which is now in Ward 8, but was previously in 11). His lead in those neighbourhoods was pretty narrow and Gondek beat him by a much wider margin in the neighbourhoods she won in Ward 11. For example, he won Cedarbrae by 1%, but across 24th St, she won Braeside by 6.4%.

So much for the narrative that he was beloved in his ward because he held town hall meetings and responded to people's complaints.

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

I'm ok if a few seals die so I can get a plastic straw for my slurpee.

bamboo straws are the bomb

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Cappy

bamboo straws are the bomb

I once saw this person drinking a liquid from a cup and they didnt even have a straw! It was wild man! Complete madness!!

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Locke

I once saw this person drinking a liquid from a cup and they didnt even have a straw! It was wild man! Complete madness!!

you don't know what you are missing out with bubble tea.

Maybe we can convince Chu to get the eff out of city hall by giving him a Gong Cha franchise.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by getbak

Livewire has a nice visualization of the community breakdown for the mayor voting: https://livewirecalgary.com/2021/10/...-mayoral-race/

Farkas had his strongest support in East Calgary. This was also the part of the city with the lowest vaccine uptake. I don't know if the two are related.

Farkas only finished ahead in 3 of the neighbourhoods in his old ward (Cedarbrae, Willow Park, and Elbow Park - which is now in Ward 8, but was previously in 11). His lead in those neighbourhoods was pretty narrow and Gondek beat him by a much wider margin in the neighbourhoods she won in Ward 11. For example, he won Cedarbrae by 1%, but across 24th St, she won Braeside by 6.4%.

So much for the narrative that he was beloved in his ward because he held town hall meetings and responded to people's complaints.

Man, Jeromy with a clean sweep of the Care Facilities.
If being beloved by infirm seniors isn't a path to victory, what are we even doing here?
Democracy doesn't work!

[Inglewood Jack]

Originally Posted by getbak

Farkas had his strongest support in East Calgary. This was also the part of the city with the lowest vaccine uptake. I don't know if the two are related.

yes you do

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Interesting.
Looking at the voting stations by mayoral candidate, even in the voting stations he won, Jeromy only broke 40% in 4 of them. So even where he won, he wasn't the prefered candidate of a majority of the candidates.
Jyoti on the other hand, certainly won quite a few with less than a majority, but it's pretty easy to find stations in the high 40's, 50's and 60's.

[MoneyGuy]

I’ve used numerous paper straws and not once have any failed me.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by edslunch

A&W is doing an awesome job on packaging. Almost all of it is compostable except for the cups and the stupid ketchup packs.

How dare they presume to serve me root beer without ice!

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by troutman

How dare they presume to serve me root beer without ice!

I'm pretty sure they assume you want it cold but not watered down.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by troutman

How dare they presume to serve me root beer without ice!

Yes but how much Ranch dressing were you served?

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by MoneyGuy

I’ve used numerous paper straws and not once have any failed me.

lol. obviously you haven't had a slurpee in years. garbage.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

Realistically, almost nothing the consumer does makes much of a difference. Almost all of the waste comes from the manufacturers.

Whether you recycle that bottle doesn’t matter much when the company produced thousands of times more waste producing it.

So isn't the take away not that "almost nothing the consumer does makes much difference" but "the consumer can make a real difference in what they buy rather than what they do with the packaging after purchase"?