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Chris NelsonCalgary Herald |
That adage about the customer always being right is put on its head at Calgary City Hall. In that alternate universe, the customer — that being...
Did Naheed Nenshi simply wake up one morning and decide to start denigrating those disagreeing with him, or was it the drip, drip, drip of politics...
Should we just shut it down? Downtown Calgary, that is, and let the addicts, the homeless and the criminals have it. Is that where we’re headed? ...
Is there anything Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s regime hasn’t messed up since taking office nine years ago? The list of blunders is so...
For a province long thought of as a bastion of conservatism, there’s been little actual conserving going on in Alberta these past 40 years. And...
He’s back. And so are the numbers of people illegally fleeing into Canada from the United States. The much-ballyhooed deal finally signed a year...
Hallelujah, and pass that pen: it seems you can fight city hall. Just don’t expect to win. Landon Johnston, the Calgarian pushing to have Mayor...
Interesting would be a polite way of describing what once was budget time at my former local media outlet. A more accurate word would be ferocious. ...
Nature may abhor a vacuum but politicians don’t. They spy opportunity. That’s why all those well-paid department heads at city hall who imagine...
The city official in Portland, Ore., couldn’t conceal his disdain regarding this strange Canadian city called Calgary, from which he’d recently...
Without doubt, it’s the greatest industrial success story this country has enjoyed in the past half-century. That’s probably why so many people...
Nobody enjoys being slapped twice in the face, but it beats getting a third backhander across your rapidly reddening cheek. Sadly, Calgarians...
A few years ago, at the pandemic’s height, some commentators waxed lyrical about how Canadians were abandoning Alberta. The reason behind this...
Just because a single Calgarian out of every 50 is fully behind what our council’s been up to lately, doesn’t mean the current mayor and...
Despite what our divisive mayor might imagine, the biggest issue facing Calgary today isn’t that awful situation in Gaza. No, most Calgarians are...
Maybe there’s some merit to this Alberta pension plan idea after all. I’ve previously written about how the whole thing seems daft and any...
Only city council would attempt to solve an affordable housing crisis by deliberately making housing more expensive for Calgarians. But that’s...
There were bigger wastes of time than rearranging the Titanic’s deck chairs. After all, moving your seat might have brought a glorious Atlantic...
This isn’t the end of carbon taxes, it’s not even the beginning of the end — but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Sorry for messing...
Imagine if the federal government laid out a long-term plan for energy development and steadfastly stuck to it — even if someone, somewhere,...
There are times when it seems we’ve become unwitting characters in some modern-day version of a Charles Dickens novel. Except our tale of two cities...
In the almost limitless collection of our prime minister’s notable gaffes, one clings to top spot. “You’ll forgive me if I don’t think about...
Only a fool would build an expansion to a home as it goes up in flames. Welcome to Calgary, a city doggedly plowing ahead with the most ruinous...
Incentivize is one of those particularly brutal words in the English language, appreciated only by bureaucrats and politicians. Still, it’s not...
Sit at the poker table and can’t spot the sucker? Then it’s you. Sadly for us taxpayers, politicians never seem to grasp this. Or perhaps they...
The stars are aligning for Premier Danielle Smith. Political leaders are akin to gamblers: relying on numerous strategies and intricate game plans,...
Turn up the heat high enough and even Teflon becomes vulnerable. Which should bring some solace to millions of frustrated Canadians who have watched...