u/whathappensi

Decided to explore blatchford recently and holllaayyy! It doesn’t look like it from a distance but there’s so much development. So many more houses than before and they’re excavating massive amounts of land for residential and commercial buildings. It’s nice to finally see the project going fast especially due to our much needed housing demands especially inside the henday and close to the downtown core. Wish all those random big plots of land in the city start developing asap. Anyone from blatchford please chime in and tell us some lore.

Not that I live in the north west but damn do I feel bad for them. Constantly teased for decades about getting a train with all the property taxes they pay, just to now hear that it might be replaced by BRT because it’s to much of a pain for CN and coz our provincial and federal government couldn’t care less. Seriously though how can we be a city with a million and projected to be 2 million in a couple decades without a train to one of the major areas in our city? Ik some students who go UofA and Macewan from North West who said they wouldn’t have even bought their cars if there was an lrt line. Truly a shame honestly.

Tbh, I think he’s been dealt a bad hand, mainly on the weather. We’ve had such insane snow and rain this year many blamed him for the poor snow removal service but it was a given. I agree with a lot of his vision for the city especially in terms of infrastructure but he’s had to deal with nimby’s, the UCP, weather extremes, and lack of funding from all levels of government. I also think that he’s basically the only person who ran for mayor and didn’t lie saying property taxes will never rise which also gives him a bad rep. But compared to everyone else, it seems like he’s the only one who wouldn’t bend forward to the UCP and nimby’s. Anyway what’s y’alls thoughts?

Seriously what the hell has happened? My family and I moved from Ontario almost 20 years ago when everything was 5 times cheaper and whatever we save on housing goes into some other bs. What good is cheaper rent when my groceries, insurance and utilities are more expensive than all the other provinces? Even gas used to be miles cheaper now we’re basically on par with the rest of the country and WE DRILL THE STUFF HERE. People used to move here for work and now we have the second highest unemployment. We haven’t gotten a new hospital in God knows how long, our transportation is absolutely buns, we got money for referendums and data centres but nothing for public services, we got a premier who crashed out at the Edmonton police for calling out literally hate speech (with ss’s calling for hangings and genocide), and even worse, loads of people who support and vote for her. I think outside Quebec, I never experienced more racism as a black person anywhere else in Canada than here.

And the most annoying thing is whenever we think it can’t get worse, Marlaina keeps finding ways to prove me wrong. And whenever I talk about this to my coworkers, I just hear “you’re a liberal sissy Carney Trudeau Singh socialist!! Where will all the billionaires go?!!!” Anyway I sadly don’t have any hope of the UCP losing.

If you think otherwise, please leave. Cha cha tibs is a close second tho