OPINION

By Dafydd Urquhart Dafydd Urquhart is a born-and-raised Calgarian, father, equipment operator for the roads department and a member of Calgary’s Future, an advocacy group for everyday Calgarians. Calgary is a sprawling city. We have […]

The City of Calgary has recently completed a new document titled The Guidebook for Great Communities, with the subtitle of “creating great communities for everyone.”  The document is 131 pages. That’s hardly what I would […]

In December 2019, I spent four weeks exploring the streets of London UK. While I love the street life, I hated trying to navigate the network of curved streets and back alleys to get to […]

For many years now, I’ve been listening to a Calgarians lament about how the monster new infill homes are destroying our inner-city neighbourhoods by demolishing the tiny cottage homes. They want the City of Calgary […]

I think I have a solution to a recurring problem in both Calgary and Alberta lately. It fits right in with the push for a growing tech ecosystem in the city. In Monday’s Strategic Meeting […]

I like to wander. One of the things I love to do is wander not only my neighbourhood, but other Calgary communities. I want to see what I can discover about how Calgarians play in […]

By now, it’s pretty cliché to talk about 2020 using any of these words: Crazy, ridiculous… or the best one – unprecedented. A lot happened in 2020. Much of it concurrently, too; COVID-19, the economy, […]

While most of us have been focused on the impact of COVID-19 on our everyday lives, there has also been lots of attention being paid to how we can breathe life into downtown Calgary. It […]