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Some random Switch photos plus one of my favourite bear and one of my favourite parkade. Apologies in advance for a large post.

Sooo… More money for more schools is a good thing although, as with most things, the devil is in the details. According to David Staples, “The plan, Smith told me, is to switch the funding and accounting model for school builds. No longer will the province give school boards upfront cash...

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It probably means they already know who will be on the ballot and they’re in no hurry to vote for any them. :(

Maybe they’ll farm half the public schools out to the Catholic Church? Oh wait… I forgot… they already do that…

The team has parted ways with Assistant GM Brad Holland. As part of the announcement, Oilers CEO and President Jeff Jackson said the parting of ways was a mutual decision...

^ Sooo… The Alberta government has officially handed back more than $137 million to the federal government after running out of time to spend the cash to clean up old oil and natural gas wells. They ran out of time??? They’ve had four years! And we still have almost 180,000 inactive or...

Evander Kane to have sports hernia surgery. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/nhl/oilers-forward-to-undergo-sports-hernia-surgery/ar-AA1qy581?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=7f59985136154252985f6e35294c436c&ei=35

I'm not sure that the total amount of ductwork in the two completely detached systems would be more than the ductwork required for a split system and may even be less. I'm also not sure that the "same fire protection as" would be more expensive as a small furnace in a utility room with the...

I'm pretty sure a two unit, two furnace system would have no need to be interconnected...

I'm pretty sure that "as long as the furnace is enclosed in a room with adequate fire protection and the air duct system is not interconnected with the other dwelling units" would be more expensive than simply providing a separate furnace (or electric baseboard hearing) even if you could get...

You probably don't go to London to see an old power plant either but lots of people go to London to see Tate Modern...

I think it's less that the current Provincial government hates municipalities as the current Provincial government hating anyone and anything that isn't "them" and/or controlled by them whether that's municipalities or the federal government or police services or Alberta Health or pension plans...

The Hive was the name of Beljan’s proposed somewhat strange 22 story high rise in Garneau.

Rumour has it - rumour but fairly well substantiated - that ECC will be hosting Douglas Cardinal’s UNCEDED exhibition starting in September. Although it won’t occupy a great deal of space, it is an international exhibit that is well worth seeing and should generate good traffic...

I have long said that there isn’t anyone I know who chooses to run for office that doesn’t do so believing they can positively contribute to making things better. Not only did that apply to Andrew in 2013, I believe that still applies to him every day he goes to City Hall or where ever else the...

^ The building is most definitely worth it. For those that have tried in the past however, the answer was always “it hasn’t been declared surplus yet” followed by “we can’t single source the disposition of government assets”. There was an early RFEOI but it was designed not to facilitate...

With or without the agreement with the NDP, the resignation of a Prime Minister in a minority government is likely to trigger a non-confidence vote. That means they would have to deal with an election with a lame duck leader (although many of us think he has always been a lame duck leader) or...

^ Too bad there won’t be two feet of snow in Nanaimo for him to take a walk in… :(

If you’re going to do it correctly, in my opinion you take out the existing field and lower it 20’ (or whatever it works out to), slope the banks at an appropriate angle to add “on grade” seating that doesn’t need to be structurally supported and is closer the action and voila - you have a...