Category: A fair city

Fresh Thinking About How We Fund Our City

Policy in brief We need to build a new financial formula to fund our city’s future: one that instills a culture of innovation and efficiency within administration, and works toward ending our reliance on regressive property taxes. What we’ll do in the short term I will introduce a new program called “Council’s 2%,” a goal… Read More

Fluoride, Youth At Risk, Tour of Alberta & Signs

Some questions that come in on social media really can’t be answered properly via those channels, so (based on part on the popularity of this previous post in the same vein) I’m going to do this regularly. @DaniParadis @doniveson BUT WHAT DOES HE THINK ABOIT FLUORIDE?! #yegvoteshenanigans — WTF Alberta? (@lilykalee) July 15, 2013 I… Read More

Canada Day Recap

Yesterday was the busiest Canada Day I’ve ever experienced. 10 events in 15 hours was a whirlwind. So many hamburgers, so many pancakes, so many handshakes. And in the hundreds of conversations I had yesterday, not one person grumbled about potholes; rather, it seemed like the whole City was alive with energy and optimism. So… Read More