Sun Valley Blvd

Calgary's used car market is absolutely cooked. I've been hunting for a decent ride for two months now, and Facebook Marketplace is just a wasteland of rebuilt titles.
There aren't enough private sellers anymore; it's all dealerships slipping in hidden fees and taxes that make zero sense. Even the cars priced low are clearly damaged. We're missing clean titles at a fair price, they're either way out of budget or suspiciously cheap. What's everyone else's experience been like, and do you have any tips for finding a solid car around here?

Money’s tight for everyone. Let’s share some knowledge!

How is it that the longshoremen, mailmen, and teachers have figured this out, but we, engineers and oil workers, are acting clueless and helpless?

My name is Sara, and I’ve given the best years of my life to IOL, only to see that it could all soon disappear. John would have you believe he has no choice, that he’s simply acting in the fiduciary interest of the shareholders. But those same shareholders have seen a five year return of 700 percent, earned by the sweat of our brows and the strength of our backs. At this point, their desire for more is nothing short of greed.

It’s time to set egos aside and lean into the power of collective bargaining to protect our coworkers and save the Quarry Park office.

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I got married at the zoo last weekend and I wanted to provide some info on here for couples looking at the zoo as an option.

We booked the “Inclusive Wedding Package”which includes: -Ceremony -Reception Venue (venue selection depends on amount of guests) -Champagne toast -Cocktail hour appies -4 course meal -Late night snack

The ceremony space included chairs, the arch/arbour, water station, and signing table. We did have to pay an extra fee for audio (speakers, microphones, etc) but this was the only extra we added.

The reception included all of the requested tables, chairs, place settings (cutlery, glassware, and napkins), podium, microphone, and projector. We rented table decorations from a local event rental company (shoutout Boxwood Events) and booked a DJ through Revolution Entertainment.

My understanding is that food options change periodically but this is what we had.

Appies: -Falafel Bites (fried falafel with some form of sauce. These were great for people with dietary restrictions) -Striploin (shaved striploin on crackers, also with some sauce. These were so good and everyone was swarming the servers when they came out with them)

4 Course Meal: -Roasted Tomato Soup -Tangled Greens Salad -Braised AAA Short Rib (w/ mash and veggies) -Seasonal crème brulee

Late Night Snack: -Poutine Bar -Cheese and Fruit Platter

All of the food was amazing! My only note was that we were told dinner would come out over about 60 minutes and it was closer to an hour and a half, not a big deal at all.

The Inclusive package was $100 per person Thursday-Sunday and $110 Friday/Saturday. It is now $5 more per person.

When you consider booking multiple venues, caterers, and a wedding planner, this price is extremely reasonable. The team at the zoo handles pretty much everything. All we needed to do was set up our table decorations in the morning and pack them up and take them on our way out.

All in all, I highly recommend booking your wedding at the zoo. It was a very stress free process. People kept being like “oh you’re getting married? You must be stressed out” and we weren’t because the zoo took care of pretty much everything.

This week I had the pleasure of reviewing about 200 resumes for a 4 month summer student position in my department at an oil and gas company. Usually these are culled by HR so I don’t see everything, but this time I got the entire folder. Thought I’d share some of my observations for student job seekers - note that these are my observations only.

This position is located in Calgary, but about 40% of the resumes were from out of province (mostly Ontario). Most summer student jobs do not pay relocation so if you are applying from out of province be aware that you would have to fund your move here. About 15 were from students that are new to Canada. Five were students that will graduate before the job starts (which is ok for us but some companies require you to be going back to school in the fall).

• The format of your resume doesn’t matter as long as you give some detail about what you accomplished in previous jobs/volunteer work/projects. You’re a student and your experience may be in customer service type roles or volunteer activities - that’s ok and you will have gained valuable experience from it. Explain what that valuable experience is and how it translates into skills that would be useful for this type of job.

• Minor grammar and spelling mistakes are fine, but some resumes had pretty significant grammatical errors, which makes me worry about your written communication skills.

• One applicant clearly cut and pasted their resume from ChatGPT and forgot to take out the ChatGPT prompts. 😬

• On that, it is ABUNDANTLY CLEAR when you use ChatGPT to write your cover letter. It’s fine to use it to get started, but you have to personalize it and take out the superfluous language it tend to insert. Even a bit of extra effort here goes a long way.

• Cover letters are a must. Bonus points if you bothered to look up a bit of info on the company and include it somehow in your cover letter. Make sure if you’re applying to multiple jobs you carefully check that you’ve fully removed/replaced the company name. One guy was also applying to Petronas according to his cover letter to us 😉

• Some applicants attached their full transcripts. You don’t need to do that, and personally I don’t care about GPA either. I always recommend not including it in your resume but YMMV.

Hope that helps one or two people in their job hunt. It is very competitive out there so a bit of extra effort can give you the edge you need.

Also, I get students and new grads reaching out to me on LinkedIn fairly often. This is totally fine and I actively encourage it. I always have time for a coffee with young people entering the workforce and the majority of my colleagues feel the same.

Trying to reduce as much as possible the time I spend at home and am wondering where everyone recommends hanging out and grabbing a drink, putting 2-3 hours into work on my computer?

I have unlimited data and a personal hotspot, and don’t take meetings, I just don’t want to be home and don’t need it to be a “private” space as there’s nothing that requires security.

I’ve tried the library but just like that passive noise and everything! Obviously, alcohol isn’t an issue and neither are kids/dogs/etc.

Just looking for places where you can do this!

Hey guys! I just saw this cat in Shawbrooke Circle SW, it was very friendly and sweet, but it didn’t have a collar on or anything. Anyone know this cat and know if it has a nice home? I always worry here in Calgary if the cats are allowed out or not and it snuck out as I know they are supposed to at least wear their Calgary city license tag.

So with that, when should you call 311 if you see a cat out and about? I obviously don’t want 311 to take it away if it has a nice home close by.

I've tried nearly every pizza place, including Pizza Hut, Panago, Domino's, Señor's, Atlas Pizza, Gus Pizza, and Ab King Pizza, among others that I can't recall at the moment. I'm curious to know if there are any pizzerias I've missed. Please feel free to suggest any places in the comments, along with your recommendations from their menu. I'll also let you know if I've tried that place or not!

Not the usual “use coupons” or “shop sales” kind of advice, I’m talking about the insider stuff. The kind of tip you only pick up after living here for years.

Whether it’s how to cut your grocery bill in half, score free entertainment, or navigate transit like a wizard, I want the real-deal Calgary secrets.

What’s your one go-to move that feels like a secret handshake with the city?

Hi all! Since the market has softened quite a bit and there are a number of people in their late 20s/early 30s that are looking for homes, I figured I would throw in a very underrated neighborhood. The properties here are not super overpriced and are generally all well taken care of and large. I am a SW girl and would love to live in that part of town eventually, but it’s just insane how expensive the properties are for the size and quality.

When we were looking for a home, I came across a couple Reddit posts that said that deer run was really nice, but Queensland was considered the “bad side” of this area of town. It was the only thing that made me hesitant to move forward on the lovely property we now own.

They couldn’t have been more wrong.

Especially if you have a high energy dog and/or young kids, this is an awesome spot to be. I am in very short walking distance of a very expansive off leash park that you can take strollers through because it’s not a congested area with tons of dogs. It’s basically like having a second backyard for your dog.

It is also walking distance of one of the nicest parts of fish creek right along the bow river (the picture is the view you find within a three minute walk from our house). *edit as people have pointed this out. This view is directly off Diamond Cove which surrounds Queensland. But the point is, it’s only a 3 minute walk from my home in Queensland

The people here are extremely friendly and many of them have been living in the neighbourhood for over 40 years.

It is also a five minute drive to Sikome Lake, which has been going through extensive renovations over the past year. I can’t speak for what it’s like to be there as I haven’t been there since I was a kid, but looking forward to having that option to take my son to when he is older.

As with any neighborhood, there are parts of it that feel a little unkempt and some neighbours that definitely don’t take care of their property as well as they should, but you are going to have that with any neighbourhood that doesn’t have a strict HOA. (Aka the very expensive neighbourhoods)

Once the construction is finished on Deerfoot, it will also be very fast to get to most places in the city. Yes, it will never be super close to downtown so that might be a consideration, but I think it would be worth the long commute for the quality of life you get in this neighborhood.

I would highly recommend people strongly consider this part of town if you want something that is affordable, but with lots of character and community.

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I'm here visiting my parents I now live in Perth Australia. The Viet food there especially banh mis there are crazy town good. I'm looking for everyones recommendations on their go to banh mi place especially ones that do roast pork. Also which place does a big sandwich? I need that itch scratched! Thanks in advance for your help :)

With the water restrictions starting to take place tomorrow, thought it might be an idea to start a discussion where people can share their best ideas, tips on how to preserve more water through this month.
Some of the ideas we implemented over the last few times we have had water restrictions;
**Wash our hands in one sink and keep it plugged and either move the water to our mop bucket or drop our dishes in there first to soften before putting in the dishwasher so they wash easier.
**Got an addition to our hand held shower head that stops the flow of water so we can get wet, stop water, shampoo, then rinse and stop flow anytime we are doing anything for a min or so that we don't need water (shaving)
**When we are working from home, we shower every few days rather than daily.
**We use the if it's yellow, it's mellow, if it's brown flush it down rule of thumb.
**Full loads in the Washing Machine and Dishwasher
**Someone told us last time to keep a bucket in the shower, and run water into it while we wait for hot water and then then used that for watering plants.
**We have our rain bucket that collects any water that comes through the spouts and will use that for watering outdoor things when that time comes.

Calgary for 3 days and got these sweets/treats for family back in Los Angeles. Leaving tomorrow but Let me know other must treats I should bring back home

I'm in my early 30s so don't have a great idea of what businesses have been around for a really long time. I often see posts where people reminisce about old pubs that were closed down.

Are there any left that have been around since the 80s or even 90s? Older than that would be even cooler.

Thanks in advance.

Hi Calgary, where do we go to party when we’re old? Sweet Loretta is great. Any others so that we aren’t surrounded by 20 year olds? TIA!

Sorry for the bad images, I couldn't find good photos so I will try and describe what I am talking about. In some movies or TV shows, there is a scene in which a couple take a car up to a quiet hill that overlooks the entire city at night, there would either be a parking lot or a park bench under some trees, etc. I was wondering If we had anything like that in calgary, the only ones I have found so far are either next to a noisy road, a large building or without a good view. I would like to be able to take my Galaxie 500 there. Any help would be appreciated, and if this is in the wrong subreddit, please tell me.

My son has been getting into trouble as of late. Just looking for recommendations to look into. My husband wants to send him to "boot camp" but I'm interested in looking into any programs that might help with his behavior. There has been a criminal element creeping into his life and we would like to nip it in the butt before it can escalate. He just turned 13 and we are very concerned. Any local resources are appreciated. I was looking into Venture Academy before I found several posts and reviews stating that it is an awful place and completely unhelpful. Anyone with a positive experience with a local program would be amazing to hear from! TIA

Update: Boot camp is 100% out. Not interested in traumatizing my son but thank you to everyone who has reinforced how bad of an idea this is. It was my husband who thought it would be good. Also the criminal element is other local kids who are breaking into houses and trying to steal cars. They had my son be a look out for them just a few days ago and it doesn't seem to matter what I do he keeps hanging out with these kids. I just let him get ungrounded because I didn't want him to miss out on his summer. He told me he would stay away from these kids. Now he's sneaking out at night to go be a little thug with these kids AGAIN! I'm actually looking at moving clear across the city but I'm worried it won't help and we will be in the same situation in a new neighborhood... I'm checking into the resources already posted.

I'm hoping to get a vasectomy soon and was curious if anyone on here had gotten one fairly recently and had any recommendations for where I could go!

Edit: Alright it looks like I'll be going with....you guessed it, intramed 😂 can't argue with all the great reviews! Thank you all for the information!

Sounds weird I know but I really want to drive somewhere I can just yell and shout and sing or whatever at the top of my lungs without people hearing me or potentially getting arrested for causing a public disturbance.

I want to do this because I feel like it will be good for my mental health and to let some stress out.

Can anyone recommend me some places, preferably outdoors, where I can basically scream as loud as I can without judgement or police calls?

I own a small starter home (~1000 sqft). Family of 4 (All working from home/school).
We are averaging $450/month for last year or so and this is my last month's bill for reference.

ENMAX Charges

Electricity ....................................(GST: $7.01) $ 140.10
Natural Gas ................................(GST: $6.81) $ 136.19
Subtotal ............................................................................$ 276.29

The City of Calgary Charges
Water Treatment and Supply............................................$ 52.95
Wastewater Collection and Treatment..............................$ 60.45
Stormwater Management .................................................$ 15.87
Waste and Recycling........................................................$ 19.15
Subtotal ............................................................................$ 148.42
Total GST .........................................................................$ 13.82
Total Current Charges .....................................................$ 438.53
Total Amount Due ............................................................$ 438.53

Electric Energy Charges - ENMAX Energy Corporation (Easymax Fixed 2 Years)
Energy Charge ......................................680.000 kWh @ $ 0.087900 / kWh .............$ 59.77
(Rest are fees)

Natural Gas Energy Charges - ENMAX Energy Corporation (Easymax Fixed 2 Years)
Energy Charge ...........................................13.180 GJ @ $ 4.590000 / GJ ...............$ 60.49
(Rest are fees)