Alberta backs off funding cuts to low-income transit passes in Calgary and Edmonton (livewirecalgary.com)
The Alberta government has backtracked on funding cuts to the low-income transit pass in the province’s two biggest cities....
‘It’s just cruel’: Low income transit pass provincial funding stripped from Calgary, Edmonton (livewirecalgary.com)
Calgary could have to fully fund the Low Income Transit Pass (LITP) moving forward, as the Alberta government has pulled their contribution to the affordability measure....
Anyone at the Comic Expo last weekend? What did you think?
Just looking to start up some chat about the event. Would love to hear how the Gina Carano panel went!
City reveals it has $818 million in working capital to help pay for new downtown arena (www.cbc.ca)
Greater transparency cited as reason for pulling back curtain on previously unreported cash
Woman seeks tougher penalty for Calgary police officer's sexual misconduct (calgaryherald.com)
If a health care worker did something like this, they would be facing discipline from their professional college and would face massive ramifications. If I, as a consulting professional, send unprofessional messages to a client and they contacted my boss, I would be out of a job instantly. 20 hours pay forfeiture is a joke in my...
CTrain Success
I know that the CTrain reminders to not forget your newspapers when leaving the train have been overwhelmingly successful because I haven’t seen a newspaper on the train even one time in the last 10 years.
Calgary this morning at -30 degrees (slrpnk.net)
Calgary to install new in-street crosswalk signs at all K-6 schools (calgary.ctvnews.ca)
Probably a good thing. Seems like more and more parents are choosing to drive their kids to school and the chaos results in a lot of impatience.
Things to do this weekend in Calgary (www.todocanada.ca)
Calgary Transit goes electric as feds commit additional $325M for zero-emission buses (globalnews.ca)
Welcome to Calgary on lemmy.ca
If this takes off I will give mod access to the r/calgary mods I just intended to park the name so it wasn’t stolen by someone who didn’t intend to moderate it.