Great message from Calgary’s mayor:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/comments/1ud8j5h/no_calgary_is_not_cancelling_stampede_we_are/
For background: the Calgary Stampede brings millions into Calgary for 10 days of hootin’ hollerin’ and fun. At the periphery of the site are huge party tents run by businesses that host concerts and operate late into the night at ear-shattering decibels.
it's really interesting how datacenters have become the new nuclear waste sites, no community wants either of them anywhere near
and it's not just the obvious massive scale, with lack of any meaningful permanent employment, huge water and energy use, but also they are backed by the most odious corporations and techbros
people get all of this, and are saying LOUDLY - NO WAY!!
Naheed Nenshi implores Ottawa to step in and force Alberta to drop surgery line-jumping scheme #abpoli
Prominent conservatives make social media attacks on Calgary’s conservative mayor #abpoli
June 25th is the People's MOU Day of Action! The Liberal government signed an MOU with Danielle Smith to ensure that the interests of multi-billionaire oil corporations are protected. It's time for them to sign a deal with the people who elected them: to protect OUR communities, climate, and future!
Please RSVP at https://act.350.org/event/peoples-mou-doa/26923/
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #climate #climateaction #climatejustice #Environment #oil
It is absolutely reprehensible that our provincial government continues to use their power and authority to attack any political leader in municipal government based solely on their ideological position, for not being on the Conservative spectrum. This is NOT a government which represents the constituents who elected them. This is NOT a government who represents Albertans. This is NOT a government that respects any other democratically elected jurisdictions. This is a government who represents only those who share the same Conservative views as them, and anybody else is an enemy to be removed through authoritarian tactics. Many of us are not represented by our elected government, but are enemies of it by their design and not ours. But this "Us vs Them" classification doesn't end at YOUR political position. Look at the anti-immigrant October referendum questions, the anti-trans legislations, the queer censorship legislations, the anti-disability legislations, the anti-worker legislations, the anti-bike legislations. Your ethnic background, your gender identity, your lack of ownership, and even your preference to sustainability all makes you "enemies of the state" because YOUR EXISTENCE DOES NOT FIT THEIR IDEOLOGY. I hope you all realize what a gross betrayal this is to both democracy and the Alberta people.
#abpoli #cdnpoli #ableg #fascism #disabilityJustice #climate #lgbtqia #racism #islamophobia
But Alberta Premier Danielle Smith sends letter telling Calgary City Council to roll over or the province will step in It’s not over, but Round One of last weekend’s intergovernmental noise bylaw fracas – which channelling the late Dr. Seuss, we might call a bitter Twitter window-rattle battle – goes to Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas. […]
RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116799340438868076
But go ahead, Alberta.
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