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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 3d

Didn’t watch the YYC mayoral debate? Here’s an instructive Reddit thread to summarize audience impressions: www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/s/...

From the Calgary community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Calgary community

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 6h

yes

Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 6h

It’s a little mind boggling but if you consider that at least 40% of them are fine with this idea, and a big chunk of the others are either shell-shocked or too busy surviving to do anything about it then the slide into authoritarianism can plod on as it does . .

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 6h

I am incredibly lucky that when I travel
within the city I can (mostly) do so at a non-peak time. But last week I drove home from Ward 7 in the late afternoon and I spent an hour in traffic for a trip that normally takes 15 minutes. I fumed over the lost opportunity of that time the whole way home.

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 7h

lol but no regrets right?

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Duane Bratt @duanebratt.bsky.social · 15h

Can I tell you how indispensable @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social has been in its coverage of the Calgary election. Whether you are following it closely or not. Videos of numerous ward and mayoral forums. And there most valuable service, a campaign primer. www.sprawlcalgary.com/calgary-elec...

Meet the Calgarians running for mayor and council in 2025 | The Sprawl

Follow along with our candidate tracker.

www.sprawlcalgary.com

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 13h

I guess so! Usually it blooms in November. 🤷🏼

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 14h

Apparently I have a secular Christmas cactus. Figures.

A green Christmas cactus with pink blossoms.

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 15h

I could not care less who Justin Trudeau is dating. 🙄

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 18h

Yes! And in a relative sense we are still really lucky that Calgary’s housing market is **relatively** affordable for families seeking 3-bedroom spaces. In Vancouver or Toronto a 3-bedroom condo can easily set you back $1.5M, and most townhomes are over 2M.

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 18h

That sucks. Don’t push it, and take care.

Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 18h

Then let’s not play their game. Spread truth. Share resources. Use old-fashioned networks of talking to friends, family and neighbours. Get a lawn sign.

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 18h

Housing is a ladder. It’s all connected & picking on one type you deem unaffordable isn’t fair.

We met two women who recently moved into new 8-plex units in Montgomery who could not afford to be in the neighbourhood in any other type of housing. It gave them a choice that was affordable.

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 18h

I am so frustrated by the argument that “new infills are more expensive than the bungalows.”

Every time I hear this at the doors I ask the question “and are people buying them?” The answer is always YES.

There’s a bigger market for new townhomes than for new (and more expensive) SFHs.

Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 18h

The alternative to old bungalows being torn down and replaced by a number of condos or townhomes that costs roughly the same is the old bungalow being torn down and replaced by a large house that costs 3x as much.
This is literally what happened before rezoning

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Farkas gave an example from the Glamorgan neighbourhood, where he said $600,000 bungalows
are being torn down and replaced with $750,000 luxury condos.

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🇨🇦MapleHallow 🎃 @maplezero.bsky.social · 18h

Please listen/read this article on the Calgary arena deal and then get out and vote. We can’t afford another misstep. We couldn’t afford this one.

Jeremy Klaszus @klaszus.bsky.social · 1d

Calgary mayoral candidates are bickering about which arena deal was best—and who got fleeced. And an outgoing city councillor now says progressive councillors voted yes to the deal in 2023 "at great political cost." Here's how the deal got done. (Listen and/or read!) #yyccc

The truth about Calgary’s billion-dollar arena deal | The Sprawl

Campaign accusations abound. Here’s the real story.

www.sprawlcalgary.com

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 18h

And here’s something else to share: bsky.app/profile/holl...

Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 3d

Didn’t watch the YYC mayoral debate? Here’s an instructive Reddit thread to summarize audience impressions: www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/s/...

From the Calgary community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Calgary community

www.reddit.com

Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 18h

Here’s one link to help you out; share it with friends and family: bsky.app/profile/holl...

Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re still mulling over your choices for councillors and school board trustees, the endorsements by Calgary Future are a great reference.

Also, Alex is very nice and cool and is brimming with ideas for a better city.

Calgary's Future @calgarysfuture.bsky.social · 1d

Alex Williams is in it for the long haul.

But that’s not the only reason we’re endorsing Alex Williams for Ward 11.

Check out our full endorsement page to learn more: https://calgarysfuture.ca/endorsements/alex-williams/

#YYC #YYCCC #CalgarysFuture #VoteReframe

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 18h

“Participatory democracy only works when people actually participate.”

I’m going to say it; shame on you if you’re not going to vote.

And with undecided voters as numerous as they are this can still be anyone’s race.

Make an informed choice.

Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 20h

Bracing for bleak election turnout.
Is everyone distracted? Too busy? Are people turned off by the candidates? Or do all of the above contribute to Calgary voters' current none-of-the-above mindset? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

ANALYSIS | Calgary's 2025 meh-lection: how low can turnout go? | CBC News

With a mix of inattention and indecision tamping down excitement, advance voting has plunged. Will Calgarians' decision be to not bother?

www.cbc.ca

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 19h

He is often the voice of reason, lol.

Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, Jeromy goes into that in detail.

Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 1d

Some of you really go all out for Halloween. (The shadow in the window, tho 😬)

A Halloween display outside a Calgary house. Several spooky goblins and scary pumpkins adorn the front yard.

Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 1d

I just finished listening to @karaswisher.bsky.social’s Burn book and it echoed many of the same points—especially making the case for many of the ultra-rich tech bros being children on an emotional level. We sure need someone to look at regs for the sector if we’re going to get through this alive.

Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 1d

I really enjoyed this Coyne column. Said tech oligarchs need to way more attentive to the way public opinion is shifting against them. Coyne is just about the furthest thing from a "soak the rich" socialist, and yet....

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: The tech oligarchy poses a unique threat to democracy

Today’s uber-rich have converted their obscene wealth into outsize power, wielded in the name of bizarre millenarian ideologies

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 1d

I guess I should finally watch Annie Hall.

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 1d

You can, of course. But you might not be getting the best candidate. ✌🏼

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 1d

And it’s totally OK to feel skeptical—municipal parties are a new idea for Alberta. But we can beat them at their game. Why should just the right-wing parties get the advantages?

Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 1d

I’m going to gently suggest that you are playing right into Danielle’s hands if you outright disregard progressive parties. She introduced the legislation KNOWING that progressive voters wouldn’t like the idea, and she wanted to stack the deck against them.

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