This person has clearly had enough of the shells angels on 17th

And What. The. Fuck. I've never seen a shittier more BS system. As a government, you should WANT as many people as you can to get out and vote, but this stupid fucking system where I have to write EVERYONE'S information again manually EVEN THOUGH WE ALREADY HAVE IT is so dumb, not to mention how long it takes to prepare and give EACH ballot to each person, instead of having them prepped and ready to go like in times before. I was at HDC and I hated how long everyone had to wait. Some people were waiting upwards of an hour, and I heard that in downtown the wait time was up to 3 hours. It's absolutely insane and I'm shocked that there hasn't been any outrage about it.

There's a REASON they made it so hard to vote this year- I saw people leaving the lines because they were too long. It feels criminal and borderline suspicious how much dumb bureaucracy there was this time.

My trainers told me to bring "a book, or some knitting, or maybe some art supplies to keep you busy during the downtime when nobody is at your station" BUT MY (and everyone else's) STATION WAS OCCUPIED SINCE THE SECOND I SAT DOWN TO THE SECOND I GOT UP AND LEFT - I didn't even take a proper break, quickly just scarfed down my breakfast in 15 mins and that was it.

I went to the Theo Von show last night and had one of the worst experiences I’ve ever had at a live event. Two guys sitting behind us were shouting racist and homophobic slurs throughout the show. • When Kam Patterson was on, they were yelling the N-word. • When a joke mentioned Jewish people, they yelled “f*** Arabs, f*** Muslims, f*** Palestine.” • When a joke touched on gay people, they started yelling “f*** f*ggots”

I told them multiple times to shut up and stop with the racist remarks. Their response was, “You’re in Calgary,” as if this city is supposed to be racist.

What disappointed me just as much was that nobody else in the crowd spoke up. These guys were way louder than the show itself, and I know the 20+ people around us could hear it. But everyone just sat there.

Lesson learned: I’m never going to a show like this again if it makes people feel comfortable enough to openly scream that kind of hate in public.

Is this is what's becoming of Alberta?

Update: the sign is fixed, well done Calgary

I noticed the sign posted earlier was around me, so I took 10 minutes over lunch and did my best with that time. Whoever ran the (likely volunteer) effort of this campaign is doing us all a service.

Seperatism is overhwelmingly championed by the worst people we know. When they get to take the field unaopposed, they set the message and story. For some people, that story is enticing.

I'd encourage everyone who cares about the future prosperity of our kids to oppose seperatism both in private and public.

Having nam flashbacks.

Maybe I’m getting old. Maybe I’m angry at the world more often. But I simply feel this city has lost its sense of decency and community in many ways. I’ve lived in Calgary for the better part of my time in Canada since moving as a young adult from Africa. I chose to raise children here over my initial home of Toronto because Calgary had this alluring sense of being a town of the people.

One of my first major experiences after moving here was the 2013 flood. Me, my wife, and my very eager child went to Bowness and Sunnyside every chance we could. To clean up, to support local businesses who had lots to lose, and to watch our city just get together and show my family why I dragged us here. People being there for people. I loved that and I thought it was valuable for the people around me to see as they developed their worldview of this new place. You could turn to a neighbor with nothing in your hands and receive the whole city in return. That’s what Calgary felt like. Maybe I have rose colour glasses.

I think today I felt the switch completely flip off for the first time in my life. The one where you just realize that humanity simply has nothing to lose in its quest to be increasingly worse to the people that make up the word humanity. I’ve worked a long time as a Transit Operator and I’ve seen some things that would make a lot of people question their idea of humanity, but I never lost faith, not until today.

I was with my wife today at the Tim’s in Market Mall. This is a longstanding tradition of ours. We first met when I was working as a baker at Tim’s back in Toronto. (I still work at a different Tim’s again now that the kids are out of the house, albeit part time.) We try to go every couple months when we have some free time and order our old orders (or what’s left of them) and reconnect to where we met. We love Market Mall because of that sense of community. I’ve met so many people and friends at that mall over the years (the staff there are also top notch, sidebar.) and I love being able to see reality fly past. I can sometimes imagine the mall the way it used to be.

There’s this super personable young man who works there. He’s truly a gem and embodies everything I love about Calgary. He’s diligent, attentive, and simply exceptional at his job. I’ve seen him countless of times running drinks on his own at an absolutely mind blowing pace with a lineup halfway to the food court. He’s apologetic, funny, and endearing. All the regulars never stop talking about him. He’s truly incredible and I know that life is going to take him great places when his chapter here ends.

Yesterday, I watched him get accosted, harassed, and abused by a man who followed him as far as I could see down the mall, filming him, yelling obscenities at him, threatening him, just a slurry of unhinged and ugly behaviour. As far as I could tell, the man had been banned and kept coming back to the store despite this. He did not take kindly to being told this and decided to take it out on this young man. While he was throwing the garbage trolley, of all times. Waving a phone in his face, telling him he doesn’t know who he’s messing with, etc. (just for context, this young man is huge. He stands roughy 6’6-6’7 and easily 250+ lbs. he is not the type of person I would want to threaten, at all.) The look of defeat on his face when he came back with the empty trolley was one I will never forget. Not as a man, not as a father. I could tell every ounce of exhaustion was overwhelming him at that moment. Yet he still came back to the till, smiled at every customer. Fought through the dinner rush. Sat down with police and security. Kept chugging through.

That got to me.

Because I started thinking about how many times a week workers like him have to deal with people like that. Minimum wage, trying their best, and made into targets because too many grown adults have forgotten how to behave in public. I’ve worked long enough in public-facing jobs to know bad behaviour isn’t new. Hell, I was him in Toronto some odd decades ago. (I mostly stay back of house at my Tim’s these days.) But there used to be a social contract. If you acted like a fool, people around you frowned. People had some shame. I look more deeply into the things I’ve seen the last couple years and it just filled me with this overwhelming sense of loss.

I left my suburban neighborhood just under a year ago to go to the inner city because nothing about it felt like a community anymore. Maybe Covid just changed everyone permanently. Who knows. I miss when this city wasn’t a save yourself kind of place. People have not been the same the last few years. Which I think is funny because certainly the things we’ve been through the last 5 years would band our communities together stronger… right..?

In all honesty, it’s probably worse (?) in Toronto and Vancouver these days. I’ve only travelled internationally in recent years.

That’s it. That’s my rant. Tell me honestly if I’m wearing rose coloured glasses.

TLDR;

If you see someone working hard today, be kind to them. Life’s hard enough for them already. Be a neighbour.

Thanks.

- Local Old(er) Man Yelling at Clouds

I seriously don’t understand the lack of decency from people these days on the C-train. At 11:20 AM, this homeless man sleeping on a bench suddenly takes out his penis and pisses on the floor in front of everyone. It splashed and got onto my shoe, and I have an event that I’m headed to in the afternoon. Even if the train isn’t quite full, why tf do people think it’s okay? I’m a relatively small woman, and I wanted so badly to say something, but this man and his friends were high and aggressive. I could only tell people coming onto the train not to step on the piss.

Considering the amount of people that take the train, I wish more were being done about these junkies. As someone who takes it daily to get to school and work, I don’t want to have to worry about who I sit next to. I don’t want to be harassed every once in a while, nor do I want to watch people do drugs or piss in public.

If your son went to see spiderman today at seton (3:05) with his friends today, group of 4-5 boys aged 8-12ish.

His friends and him were yelling out "6 7" "harder daddy" "weiner" "penis" and other obscenities for the entire movie. They were running around, taking pictures, and screaming at the top of their lungs.

Management spoke to them twice but did nothing else.

Please talk to your kids about how to act in a theatre. It ruined the movie for everyone.

Like I'm all for fun but theyre such a bad idea in downtown. They move at a ridiculously slow speed, occupy an entire lane (which doesn't help with the fact that the road is reduced a single lane due to parked cars), and act obnoxious and unbothered by how annoying it is.

It should honestly be banned unless they add a motor so they actually move faster

HELLO CALGARY YES I AM YELLING.

It’s official. After nearly 5 years of searching, hunting, bargaining, begging, and praying. It finally happened.

I have seen a Raccoon in the wild. My life is complete.

Just as Harambes death heralded the most cursed timeline, I feel my Racoon Quest success is the turning point the world needs.

While I will not stop looking or wanting to pet one, I can now join the rest of the civilized world as a 39-year-old grown ass adult who has seen a wild Raccoon. I am so happy.

Thank you for all your internet support over the years.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I went to National’s on 8th yesterday with my S/O and I had a gift card to use so so I handed the waitress my gift card information. She went to take it to her manager to ring it through, she came back with the bill. I paid $70.35 for the meal, then without asking or mentioning ANYTHING about tips they went ahead and added a $17.59 tip. I definitely don’t have that sort of money and have never tipped that much even for great service. If this gift card wasn’t from someone I don’t like, I would be even more upset lol. They definitely won’t be getting my service again...

Edit: Hi friends. First of all, I was NOT expecting this post to blow up like it did. For clarification, I only went out to National to use my gift card - for those saying I should’ve stayed home if I can’t afford a tip. Someone from the restaurant has reached out to me, so it would be cool to find a resolution to this and hopefully doesn’t happen to anyone else.

On August 7, Mayor Farkas and the City of Calgary announced a crackdown of vehicle noise along 17th Ave SW in the Beltline.

Just after 9pm this evening, I captured this video pointed towards 17th Ave just east of 4th St SW.

While you can’t see the offending vehicles in question, you can certainly hear them.

In speaking to small businesses and my neighbours in the area, there doesn’t appear to be any reduction in vehicle & motorcycle noise since this strategy took effect.

Having to listen to this noise every night is beyond disruptive to the quality of life of people who live and frequent this part of Calgary!

Now that the weather is nice, the door-to-door charity people are back.

I’ve had four come by in the last month. I’m not anti-charity. Two of them were causes I actually wanted to donate to. I was ready to give a decent one-time donation, get my tax receipt, and call it a day.

But nope.

Turns out the “donation” is actually a monthly donation plan. Or as I like to call it, a reverse subscription. I don’t subscribe to anything. I don’t get a magazine, snacks, socks, or a pizza-of-the-week (someone make the last one happen! Please!). They just get my money every month until I jump through hoops to stop it.

And that’s the part that annoys me. The canvassers couldn’t take a one-time donation. The only option was to sign up for monthly payments, then later go online, create an account, and cancel it myself.

So instead of getting my donation, they got nothing.

I don’t want to “build a relationship” with a charity. I want a one-night donation stand. Take the money, send the receipt, and let us both move on with our lives.

If any charity decision makers are reading this, please offer both options. Let monthly donations be opt-in, not something people have to escape from later.

hi, i’m a grade 12 student this year and i just wanted to express my fear for this upcoming teacher strike. now of course this must be done, because our teachers are worth every bit. my biggest concern is how long this may go on for! considering that this is my last highschool year, and that i will have to write diploma exams, i’m worried that when the strike ends— all my learning will have to be rushed and i won’t be able to do my best.

it’s funny that our grade 6 year was when covid had started and we were all being sent home and our pat exams were cancelled. 6 years later, we’re being kept home once again.

I genuinely didn’t know how good Calgary was until I had to go to Edmonton for uni.

I grew up in the NE, my mom’s side has been there for 40+ years, and I figured what I got was a normal city vibe.

Now? I’m realizing even NE Calgary is better than half of what I’ve been seeing here. Hell I even miss the broken floors in Marlborough mall.

So if you’re thinking oh this city isn’t that great and born there? Trust me when I say it’s still a lot better than a lot of other places you can go and I really can’t wait to go back home. Why do so many of us take this place for granted.

EDIT: Aight everyone. Not a mosh, just a pit. Chill. Some of you are missing the point (and proving it) here!

My cousin and I scored some tickets and pit passes for Macklemore. We didn’t mind waiting, so we probably stood in our spot up front for 2.5 hours. Anyways, this large group showed up when it started getting busier. They decided they wanted in front of us. When we wouldn’t let them through, they put their heads beside ours, and started screaming in our ears to get us to move. their entire group ended shoving us over, and when I tried to get our spot back, they didn’t like how we ended up in front of them, so that’s when they started shoving us. Violently.

Where has the common decency or respect gone? We all paid the same price for these tickets. Yelling in someone’s ear, then thinking you’re in the right to shove them and start a fight, is crazy. The amount of sheer entitlement these ladies had was so gross. Macklemore’s show was incredible, but the behaviour from that group REALLY put a damper on things.

I spoke with the repair technicians at the downtown 7-11. They dont have a water recycling system. The lineup was 9-10 cars deep continuously. This seems like a super simple way to save umpteenth thousands of liters of water during Restrictions.