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Happy Thanksgiving, Calgary! 🍂

Some City services have adjusted hours this long weekend.

Check updates for landfills, Calgary Transit, road construction, Calgary Parking, recreation facilities and golf courses, including weather-related closures.

Learn more: newsroom.calgary.ca/city-service...

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Where your kid rides matters just as much as knowing how to ride. 🛴🚲

A curb or a bump can bring down a young rider and cause an injury for them or someone else.

Plan the route, keep a safe pace and make sure to wear helmet every time.

đź”— calgary.ca/ridesafe

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⚡ Charge into fire safety this Fire Prevention Week. Dead batteries don't belong in your blue, black or green carts.

If it lights up, makes noise or connects to Wi-Fi, it likely contains a battery and should never go in your blue, black or green cart.

Learn more: calgary.ca/battery

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We know that there are certain items that you have been dreaming about being able to recycle… now you can.

Newly accepted items include:
âś… Flexible plastic bags and wrappers
âś… Foam packaging
âś… Food and body aerosols
âś… Tubes

Learn more at www.calgary.ca/waste/reside...

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We know aerosols, lotion tubes and toothpaste tubes can’t really be rinsed out, but you can make sure they’re empty. Use up all the contents and squeeze out as much as possible before recycling the packaging.

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ℹ️Fines: • The fine for selling unauthorized fireworks has increased to $3,000. • The fine for discharging fireworks has increased to $1,000. • A new fine of $1,000 has been added for openly displaying a firework in a public place.

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✅Allowed: • Small devices like sparklers, party poppers. ❌Not allowed: • Consumer fireworks like roman candles, fountains, volcanoes, snakes, ground spinners, flying spinners. • Display fireworks like aerial shell, multi-shot cakes, barrages, waterfalls, set pieces. • Firecrackers.

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🎇We’ve updated the rules about fireworks to prevent fire and injuries and make communities safer.

đź‘ŤHow can you use fireworks safely?
• Hire a certified fireworks operator.
• Apply for a fireworks permit at calgary.ca/fireworks.

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You can now recycle more in your blue cart!

More packaging can now go in your blue cart, including flexible plastic bags and wrappers, foam packaging, aerosols, and tubes.

Remember: recycle them empty, clean and loose (unbagged).

Learn more at www.calgary.ca/waste/reside...

Infographic announcing that, starting October 1, 2026, new provincial recycling rules allow more packaging to be recycled in blue carts. A large blue recycling cart is shown at the bottom with arrows pointing into it. Examples of newly accepted items are grouped into four categories: flexible plastic bags and wrappers (chip bag, coffee bag, food pouch, snack wrapper), foam packaging (protective foam block, foam egg carton, foam takeout container, meat tray), food and body aerosols (cooking spray, deodorant spray, sunscreen spray, whipped cream can), and tubes (deodorant, hair gel tube, lotion tube, toothpaste).
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🚍 We're planning better transit connections across north Calgary and want your input!

There’s still time to view the proposals and provide your feedback on the proposed 144 Avenue North Bus Rapid transit East Leg project.

Engagement closes October 2:
engage.calgary.ca/144AveBRTfps...

Woman smiling and standing in front of a bus at a bus stop.Person wearing headphones and listening to music on their phone while sitting inside a bus.A number of people waiting for a bus at a bus stop with a shelter.
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🚍 Help shape the future of transit for Southwest Calgary!

We’re studying a new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route along 162 Ave. S.W. with potential connections to the Red Line & 52 St. BRT.

Tell us your travel needs, priorities and ideas by October 16: engage.calgary.ca/162AveSetonB...

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