Micheal J

@chealion.ca

Nerd about many things - coffee, urbanism, municipal issues, OpenStack, Kubernetes. CA President, and technical manager at Cybera (NREN non profit)

@whoalansi.bsky.socialReposted by @chealion.ca

A great read from @klaszus.bsky.social as always. Thank you for writing this!

I continue to be dumbfounded by anyone that argues against safer streets after reading the stats in this piece. We know what works, & it's not letting drivers behave recklessly & drive fast.

@klaszus.bsky.socialReposted by @chealion.ca

New Sprawlcast episode out this morning, about pedestrian safety—or lack thereof—in Calgary. (Headline idea from @chealion.ca, who made a bot that tracks and tweets pedestrian incidents in the city)

@conradnobert.bsky.socialReposted by @chealion.ca

Casually throwing away a decade of work, probably 10s of millions of dollars worth, and making Edmonton start from scratch. Stopping a building boom in its tracks too. Red tape reduction my ass.

Edmonton will be required to adopt rules for high-density infill development that revert to the parameters in place before its 2024 zoning changes for housing types, density and height, and to restore minimum on-site parking requirements in place before 2020. Edmonton will have three months from Oct. 8 to amend its bylaw.
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And this all flies in the face of their changes and mandates to make councils more business friendly with limits on approval times…

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Today’s computers were a mistake event…

How am I supposed to fix that the restaurant’s ordering vendor won’t accept my address that corresponds to any of my credit cards and if using their 25 years out of date correct autocorrect it gets denied?

#touchbistrosucks

@thatheatherc.bsky.socialReposted by @chealion.ca

And a soupçon of white supremacy. I'm no Janet Brown, but I'm a Quebecker by birth & an Albertan by career choice, and the characteristic that binds the two separatist movements is indeed, from lived experience, the racism & white supremacy embedded often disguised as a longing for halcyon days.

@bakerdphd.bsky.socialReposted by @chealion.ca

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob- lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti- democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
@tonyjordan.bsky.socialReposted by @chealion.ca

Never forget when Shoup taught us that the value of parking spaces in the USA is likely more than the value of all the roads and all the cars that drive on them.

@brettbergie.bsky.socialReposted by @chealion.ca

“When we allow governments to erroneously and irresponsibly strip Charter protected rights away from vulnerable communities [we allow] politicians to use lies and stigma […] to impose their ideology and power on those different from them.”

Full statements here:
www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

@paulisci.bsky.socialReposted by @chealion.ca

Albertans with Canadian flags attached to their car in 2026 and Albertans with Canadian flags attached to their car in 2021 are completely non-overlapping groups.

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