OPINION

Contributed by Dr. Joe Vipond and Joan Lawrence – Calgary Climate Hub —– Hot enough for you?  If this week’s heat feels weird, it’s because it is. The ‘heat dome’ pushing up from the southern […]

Editor‘s Note: This piece by Nathan Hawryluk is a rebuttal to Friday’s opinion piece by Richard White. Richard White closed his piece about loving detached houses by talking about the supply and value of detached […]

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that people living on single-family home streets in Calgary’s established communities are not keen to have their streets invaded by four-plexes and heaven forbid townhomes or apartment blocks. That’s the fear […]

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 […]