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Tomorrow is nomination day, and I’ll be down at City Hall to file my papers at 10 AM. It’s quite amazing to me that this is only now becoming official. It feels like we’ve been preparing and building and growing for so long already, it’s hard to believe that we’ve accomplished so much so early.… Read More

Signs of Intelligent Life

Signs went up all over Ward 5 this evening. I’m having trouble posting images to the blog, but rest assured they are sharp. I am blessed with amazing volunteers, each of whom I owe deep thanks. Dozens mustered to whisk signs out in all directions. Many of them are friends and family, on whom I’ve… Read More

U-Pass

I was pleased to read a piece in Tuesday’s Gateway (the student newspaper at the U of A) indicating in the headline that “Initial U-pass reactions primarily positive” [link]. I’m not surprised given the strong endorsement undergraduates and graduate students gave the program in referenda held earlier this year, and further given the number of… Read More

On Two Wheels

See Magazine has been profiling municipal candidates for the last few weeks and, as some of you may have seen, I was the subject of this week’s rundown. The on-line version [link] unfortunately does not show the humourous caricature of me on a bike that ran with the article. My only complaint was that I… Read More

Home Base

This weekend I’m knocking on doors in Malmo Plains, where my wife Sarah and I have been lucky to own a lovely bungalow for the last two years. I’ve been knocking on doors all over Ward 5 since May, but I wanted to save my home neighbourhood until closer to the election, and I’m glad… Read More