Gronk!
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Cheryll ain't giving up
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TAS
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I see Nickel is going hard at Sohi now saying he personally benefitted with a sweet deal on a residential lot in exchange for a favorable council vote on that developer's zoning request. A 'whistle-blower apparently brought it forward on Facebook. Global News picked up the story tonight on the news. Global checked on other prices lots sold for in the neighbourhood and Sohi actually paid more or the same for his lot as others in the area. Desperate times for Nickel.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mr. <a href="https://twitter.com/AmarjeetSohiYEG?ref_src=twsrc^tfw">@AmarjeetSohiYEG</a> made a statement moments ago. <br><br>It raises more questions. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/yeg?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#yeg</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/yegcc?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#yegcc</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/yegvote?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#yegvote</a> <a href="https://t.co/uFbKUIpDn8">pic.twitter.com/uFbKUIpDn8</a></p>— Mike Nickel (@MikeNickelYEG) <a href=" ">October 12, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mr. <a href="https://twitter.com/AmarjeetSohiYEG?ref_src=twsrc^tfw">@AmarjeetSohiYEG</a> made a statement moments ago. <br><br>It raises more questions. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/yeg?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#yeg</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/yegcc?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#yegcc</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/yegvote?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc^tfw">#yegvote</a> <a href="https://t.co/uFbKUIpDn8">pic.twitter.com/uFbKUIpDn8</a></p>— Mike Nickel (@MikeNickelYEG) <a href=" ">October 12, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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occidentalcapital
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Mike Nickel and Cheryll Watson becoming more and more desperate that their small time thinking "tear it all down" pitch isn't working.
_Citizen_Dane_
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If anyone needs a good laugh at Nickel's expense:
CaptainBL
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Developers, former conservative politicians donate to Mike Nickel's mayoral campaign
Developers, former conservative politicians, council and trustee candidates, and a former Edmonton Oilers owner have financially backed Mike Nickel’s mayoral campai…
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I am very surprised to see some of these names on this list. Business leaders and developers who literally make a living off of our downtown prospering are supporting a man that advocated for a downtown travel advisory. WTF am I missing here.
While I am absolutely far from a Nickel supporter, I think some of his points very deep rooted if you tilt your head and squint really hard make some sense such as reducing crime downtown, reducing red tape and wasted consulting time and money. But he is so controversial and so far to the right that his messages come off as combative and get lost for me. I just don't follow how these business leaders and downtown developers support a guy that wants people to stay out of downtown. Then we wonder why we get stuck in a rut of a small big city thinking.
Guy 1
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Not to excuse the donations, but a lot of developers and businesspeople will donate to all the mayoral frontrunners. It enables them to have an in with the mayor regardless of who wins or what their platforms are.Developers, former conservative politicians donate to Mike Nickel's mayoral campaign
Developers, former conservative politicians, council and trustee candidates, and a former Edmonton Oilers owner have financially backed Mike Nickel’s mayoral campai…
I am very surprised to see some of these names on this list. Business leaders and developers who literally make a living off of our downtown prospering are supporting a man that advocated for a downtown travel advisory. WTF am I missing here.
While I am absolutely far from a Nickel supporter, I think some of his points very deep rooted if you tilt your head and squint really hard make some sense such as reducing crime downtown, reducing red tape and wasted consulting time and money. But he is so controversial and so far to the right that his messages come off as combative and get lost for me. I just don't follow how these business leaders and downtown developers support a guy that wants people to stay out of downtown. Then we wonder why we get stuck in a rut of a small big city thinking.
It's a morally absurd practice, but I'm sure it pays dividends in their business lives.
TAS
Senior Member
Credit where credit is due. Nickel is not my choice for mayor but at least he shared his list and actually one-upped Amarjeet Sohi by also including the exact dollar amounts. Sohi has some of the same donors, but didn't disclose amounts - so a little less transparency there.
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rake
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Sohi released his list over a week ago - I believe he was the first of the mayoral candidates to do so (at least of the major ones). His disclosure does include dollar amounts, though they are lumped into larger groupings, rather than down to the exact dollar. I have a hard time seeing how that is really less transparent given that he did not wait through the advanced polling timeframe before disclosing.
His list is here, released October 6 to his campaign website, with a promise to update it on October 17th:
https://sohi.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Sohi-2021-Oct6-Disclosure-V6.pdf
His list is here, released October 6 to his campaign website, with a promise to update it on October 17th:
https://sohi.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Sohi-2021-Oct6-Disclosure-V6.pdf
TAS
Senior Member
Sohi was not my first choice and in the end there wasn't one candidate that I was completely behind, but I voted for him being afraid of a Nickel win. But according to this latest poll, Sohi has pretty comfortable lead.
TAS
Senior Member
Oops, sorry for saying Sohi wasn't the best,
when it comes to donation transparency, he is tops!I wonder why The Edmonton Journal did a story on Nickel's donors noting the developers and politicians involved when he released it but didn't do a story on who Sohi's donors were when it was released over a week ago - instead just saying he was one of a number of candidates to release his list, but no story on who some of the big developers or politicians were. As frontrunner, you think that would be newsworthy when it was released?
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All media outlets in Canada (except CBC), including the Journal, are owned by companies that lean one way or the other on the political spectrum. It is why the Journal tends to lean center left and the Sun to the right. Unfortunately, it is no surprise they selectively report on political issues. I use News aggregator apps such as Ground News to try to get stories across the entire spectrum. Of course, that doesn't get you very much local coverage.Oops, sorry for saying Sohi wasn't the best,
I wonder why The Edmonton Journal did a story on Nickel's donors noting the developers and politicians involved when he released it but didn't do a story on who Sohi's donors were when it was released over a week ago - instead just saying he was one of a number of candidates to release his list, but no story on who some of the big developers or politicians were. As frontrunner, you think that would be newsworthy when it was released?
kcantor
Senior Member
emphasis added…
if your supposition is correct, wouldn’t the journal and the sun “lean the same way” given their identical ownership?
TAS
Senior Member
emphasis added…
if your supposition is correct, wouldn’t the journal and the sun “lean the same way” given their identical ownership?
They did previously have separate owners but another example of fewer and fewer owners of media outlets and larger corporations in general.
From a business sense, in purchasing a right leaning newspaper like the Sun chain, it made sense to keep the papers with differing political leanings as they attract different advertising revenue.
As TAS stated, they used to have different ownership. Regardless of the change there, my general point remains the same - there was a graphic that showed media outlet political support since the 70s across Canada during federal elections and it largely hadn't changed in decades save a few ownership changes here and there.emphasis added…
if your supposition is correct, wouldn’t the journal and the sun “lean the same way” given their identical ownership?
archited
Senior Member
It is valid to say that the Journal and the Sun lean in different directions and there are reasons for that. It is not valid to say that all news media lean in the same direction because of ownership. News media that are wanting to respect alternate views quite often have opinions across the spectrum. Canada has a bit of catching up to do. The New York Times and the Washington Post are both reasonably good at supporting alternate viewpoints eliminating radical left and radical right all the while.