88 Replies to “Calgary Turned Into Boulder, Colorado So Fast We Didn’t Even Notice”

  1. But, but that makes no sense !

    Every Albertistani on here always tells the rest of us that all they need to do is get rid of the ROC and Albertistan will be a paradise such as has never been witnessed on Earth before. Nary a socialist, shirker or bureaucrat in sight.

    Could the vision of a GREATER SASKABERTISTAN be a hollow dream ? Could it already be self-infected with the disease of socialism ? The corrosive virus of urban leftism ? The Covid of Communism ?

    Oh dear….

    3. Could the vision of a GREATER SASKABERTISTAN be a hollow dream ?

      I mentioned some other threads that I spoke about the Kung Flue with some people yesterday. When I mentioned that our situation was made worse by the (deliberate?) negligence by Prinz Dummkopf’s sitting on his backside for several weeks, a number of them immediately launched into an anti-Trump tirade.

      That made me wonder whether WEXIT will even be seriously considered in Alberta. Trump and people like him are a clear alternative to HRH, but, it seems, some of my fellow Edmontonians don’t particularly want what he has to offer.

      1. But that’s Edmonton. I would sort of expect that (based on Edmontonians I know). What about the rest of Alberta? (What is the population proportion of Edmonton versus the rest of Alberta?)

        1. Edmonton and Calgary combined are a bit more than half Alberta’s population.

      2. Know exactly what you are experencing! Talk about Trudeau and the response is ” at least we don’t have Trump” Right there you know they are a lieberal commie, cant think for themselves, slimy, lazy, can be bought, SOB.

        1. Exactly. I never even mentioned Trump’s name, nor even thought of him, before they went off on their tangents. It might have been fun to see if the conversations had lasted long enough for me to raise the issue of separation.

      3. If you make the choice between Canada and Trump, they’re going to choose Trump. Don’t make it that choice.

    4. No. Like Liberals everywhere, they infest the Public Services and they have a tendency to rig elections. Nenshi getting in last time a classic Example.

      Calgary City council is filled with TROUGH feeding GARBAGE for the most part…a couple of councillers notwithstanding, Jeromy Farkas an excellent example of one trying to hold the rest of the Liberals feet to the fire.

      This is a council that has contributed $350,000 to the Pembina Institute to campaign AGAINST the Oil Industry, Flew its mayor and 8 others to Montreal to attend a conference with similar aspirations and recently led a “trade” mission to India….if you can believe that.

      They have pissed away millions on utter BULLSHIT so called ART around the city with none of it created by Albertans…and like all trough feeding Liberals, have afforded themselves from 2-3 Separate Pensions and ensure the Municipal workers continued to receive 1-2% increases on a yearly basis, while nearly Bankrupting the City with their concerted effort to attain another Olympics….all the while our Downtown was being Decimated by the onslaught of the Federal Govt (and at the time Provincial as well), on our # 1 Industry while property Taxes have increased on an Avg of 4.5 % per year since the Purple Prick became Mayor.

      I’ve had no use for him since the day an Israeli Family was savagely beaten in Downtown by a group of Hamas Supporters back in 2014. That Fat Islamic PHUQUE Said nothing – no condemnation whatsoever. It took Ezra Levant to bring video evidence to the Calgary Police Service to initiate any kind of action against the Low life that perpetrated this crime.

      I see him exactly as he is, a “Liberal” that loves to spend, one that is Just another infiltrated Muslim Brotherhood Piece of SHIT attaining power on the coattails of Political Correctness & Diversity.

      1. Well said.

        A few mere ‘days’ ago now when the epidemic was declared a pandemic, all of a sudden all the politicians decided to perk up their collective sleepy heads and offer condolences, advice and new rules amid the pandemic scenario. Where had they been?

        The Calgary Mayor did likewise and said that there was nowhere in the world that he would rather be than in Calgary, right now. He looked like he was going to cry. His eyes were closed as usual. Heavens to Betsy, I thought he was going to burst into song:
        https://youtu.be/460INShy3BU
        Or, I digress, go kaboom, poor fella, crashing and burning with purple slime everywhere!

      2. I understand Edmonton is no different, and between them they make up more than 50 percent of the population of Alberta. An independent Alberta will have politics exactly like the city of Calgary does.

      3. As you may know, there are few challengers to city council elections.
        Normal people just don`t want to do it.
        One thing is that it does not matter what they do, they are damned from one side or the other.
        That is not to say that the current council, except perhaps two or three, should not be thrown out of the windows of the city hall.

        Is there anybody that could take their place? (here one must use the analogy of bucket of water and a fist)
        Are they known to the public?
        Are they willing to do it?
        Are they equipped with basic common sense to make good decisions?
        Or are they looking for a loaded paycheck and benefits?

        Aside from that, this here guy goes walking most of the days, even preceding the current hysteria.
        There are more people walking that ever seen before.
        Must say, not a bad idea in the gloom of the present.

    5. SRC, yep_2.
      And you make perfect sense.
      Which is why I eye-roll every time our Wexit nutters (many of whom seem very smart). rant.

    6. Most of the road closures are in the left-tard moonbat sections of the city. If the weather would warm up today, it could be crowded on those roads and a useful way to cull the Libtards.
      These are mostly in Duh Far-ho’s ward.

  2. It’s sure not the Calgary I knew when I lived and worked there more than 40 years ago. It’s now like Vancouver was when I moved there to start at UBC.

    Rod Sykes and Ross Alger, please come back. All is forgiven.

    1. Sykes was a crook and Alger a dimwit. Nenshi is a moron. Klein was the best. Sadly, young Calgarians are as left as the rest of the dolts who populate the entire country and there is NO cure for stupidity. Enjoy the decline

      1. I have to admit that I was in Calgary for less than 2 years. Sykes appeared to have left the city in reasonably good shape and I wasn’t around long enough to find out what Alger was like.

        I was thinking back to the attitude and the people I knew there in those days. That seems to have changed since I went to Lotusland.

        1. BA, not sure if you are a music fan? If so check out movie “Festival Express”. Great story about how the promoter punched out Sykes.
          Also, check out history of Dyke on south end of Glenmore reservoir. Corupt fiasco, spearheaded by Sykes.
          The only thing that changes in Cowtown is the faces of the crooks in charge

          1. I vaguely recall hearing something about the shenanigans around the reservoir. Mind you, I paid more attention of what was going on downtown as I was in the oil industry during the time I was there.

            I left Cowtown just when streets were being dug up to build the C-Train.

      1. In a lifetime of federal and provincial voting, Klein is the ONLY incumbent that I have EVER supported. Ha, that should tell you in a nutshell what I think of today’s politicians… and how much I respected him.

        I can honestly say that I have consistently voted over the years for whomever I believed was best for my province or country, not what was in it for me. To that end, I took a lot of heat here over the years for criticizing Harper’s lib-lite performance… you know… way before it became cool.

        Anyways, Klein was much like Trump in understanding and respecting his constituents’ needs. He also taught me a lot about politics when he openly talked about “dome disease” and how ALL politicians are susceptible to one degree or another. IMO, Harper got it bad.

        1. Oh, you weren’t the only one who did that and was accused of being a “Liberal”. Remember Tom Long? Took his Ontario ball and slinked home to…..Ontari fairy ohhh. I gave up on Harper who couldn’t put a stake through the heart of CBC, with a majority, no less. Governed like he was apologizing to Libs.

  4. I’m not sure what is more stupid, closing off auto-routes in the oil-center of Canada just when the price of oil has collapsed or making more room for pedestrians at a time we are supposed to be self-isolating. The City of Calgary should offer every laid off oil worker a full-time job. Then it can make all the bike lanes it wants.

  5. What? Governments are promoting “no large gathering”.
    Now this? It’s a situation of how to go out and get collectively infected.

    1. I assume you mean “collectively infected” with the bug. By the looks of things, people in Cowtown have already been collectively infected with liberal/socialist idiocy. How else can one explain Nenshi remaining in office for so long?

      1. Yes. The BUG!
        All the Conservatives moved to Texas.

        Calgary is commie country now.
        The streets are dead here. The green space behind my house still has people walking, others with their dogs, and of course, joggers. Guess the Mayor wants what suburbia has and he shall have what suburbia has. Maybe he thinks this’ll help fill the empty buildings in the downtown area. In the meantime our taxes go up.

        1. You think Edmonton’s any better?

          The last mayor I remember who was worth anything was Bill Hawrelak and he died in office in 1975. It was his second tenure in that office as he had been booted out a number of years earlier for being a crook.

          I was briefly in Edmonton when Cec Purves (another shady operator) and Laurence Decore were mayors during their respective terms, so I don’t know much about what they did while I was there.

          Then, after Decore left, the city lost its collective sanity and voted in that socialist bimbo Jan “People Are More Important Than Potholes” Reimer. Her successor was Bill “Gateway Boulevard” Smith who, like Teddy Roosevelt, wanted to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral.

          Stephen Mandel (yet another one who seemed to like making deals under table) burdened us with that monstrosity of a downtown arena and I’m sure many people were glad to be rid of him. Now we have that leftist nutbar Don “We Need More Bike Lanes” Iveson. (I’ve used some of those bike lanes. Some of them in my neighbourhood were next to useless.)

          Terry Cavanaugh served as interim mayor after Hawrelak died and Decore left office. I recall the U of A student newspaper being merciless in its mocking of him.

          We can’t seem to win up here.

          1. Bill Hawrelak got booted out of office twice and in his third term died in office. First time he resigned. Second time he was booted. Hawrelak’s problem was he owned half the city and every vote affected property he owned in different combinations and partnerships. The Ukrainian population and a whole whack of others loved him.

          2. I think you’re right about it being Hawrelak’s third time. I just remember that he got turfed once because he was a crook.

            Those were the days when much of the city council was of Ukrainian descent and the meetings were renowned for being wild and woolly.

          5. MikeT:

            I think I remember that and it inspired a few jokes, none of which would be suitable for SDA.

          6. BA, in Finland they have paved sidewalks, 6 feet wide, and they maintain them in the winter, so people ride bikes 24/7/365. The city I visit (100k pop) was designed for bike use. Kids also ride scooters and mini bikes on them. And they have more traffic circles and yield signs than here, Traffic flows are good, and people can use bikes safely

          7. NME666:
            All European cities were built and established before the invention of the automobile. Don’t kid yourself thinking the Europeans are some big virtuous greenies. Dortmund and Glascow and Marseille would look much like Denver and Pittsburgh and Winnipeg if those Euro cities were built in the 20th century.

      2. Dyke was built, still there, 25 feet higher than the top of the dam! How did that work out?

      3. Nobody actually votes? When was the last time you voted here? I haven’t for years and I hang my hat here. Mostly away working in The Patch on voting day. What’s the average turnout? Last I checked it was pretty dismal.

        1. PO, watch George Carlin’s rant on voting. Makes me wonder why I ever voted.

  7. Closing off some road lanes is a good idea for the weekend….surprised that anyone could find fault with the idea other than complete dick heads.

    1. Some of us would see closing off road lanes to allow increased pedestrian traffic at a time when people are supposed to isolate themselves in their homes as a decision made by complete dick heads. So yes, you are right.

      1. Mark, I see very stupid Canadians. I just love watching stupid people drive bicycles in the snow when it is -20 and below.

        1. I used to do a lot of cycling. Did Trieste Italy to London one time, over the Alps. Only time I ever cycled in the winter was in UNI. Tried it in Montreal winters, at least until the snow got too deep. Their drivers are a pleasure to deal with, any season. Many a car door dented from my cycling perch. Lots of one way streets to deter reprisals.

  9. When is some benevolent billionaire going to sponsor a group of local politicians to kibosh bike lanes, blah blah blah, and commuter trains. And build more frigging roads and extra lanes. Everyone hates all this shit and it costs us billions in taxes but no-one gets off their fat lazy asses and kills the social engineering.

    1. Read the comment higher up on this page where they “brag” about not voting and about how useless voting is. The anti-capitalist greens take advantage and get themselves elected in numbers that far outweigh their natural support level. We wouldn’t have a Nenshi or Iverson if lazy suburban centrists and “busy” out-of-town working conservatives took the time to vote (advance polls, mail-in ballots, getting off your fat ass on election day… all are very effective).

  10. Welcome to Ontario.

    This is what happens when too many Ontarians move to Alberta.

    Get Wexit done before you can’t.

    1. #WEXIT should have happened back in 1981, with the NEP. I was ready to leave then. While fresh imports we’re headed back when The Patch crashed. Too late now. Our biggest voter centers, cities are overrun with “foreigners” now. All types. Ask Texas all about it. Alberta was a great place back in 1975 when I first showed up. No people. No muzzies, too. Marlborough was just the Market Mall and no houses. So? I’m “racist”, sue me. They don’t practice brotherly love either. Don’t get me started on Ontarioans. I’m from there.

      1. PO I think you are 100% right. Far too many socialist imports to turn back now. The genetic fabric has also been diluted or polluted, which ever word you wish. That the NDP were elected should have been a serious wake up call.

        1. I noticed the same thing about Fort St. John. I moved away in ’77 after I finished my B. Sc. Now that I’m going back there on a regular basis, I see how much it’s changed.

          It used to be a much more blue collar town, but that’s not the case any more. Too many ex-Lotuslanders moved there, taking their flaky ideas with them. For goodness sake, the town has an annual “pride” parade now.

          It used to be a place where one went if one wanted to get away from the city. Now, it looks and feels pretty much like any larger metropolitan area, which isn’t necessarily a good thing.

          1. Man, Pride with half naked men never mind the women. That must be brutal when the wind picks up and the sand starts flying on 100th Ave?

          2. “That must be brutal when the wind picks up and the sand starts flying on 100th Ave?”

            It’d be worth the trip just to see that!

          3. I think it was last year in FSJ that I walked to a certain business office on a particularly windy on a spring or summer day. The wind-borne sand kept getting into my face.

            When I got there, I remarked to people that FSJ was one place where I didn’t need to brush my teeth. All I needed to do was open my mouth and the wind would sandblast them clean.

          4. FSJ’s claim to fame was pick ups coated in mud, mud clods all over town. Any time from Spring to freeze up. The dirt around there is a particular nasty kinda stuff that sticks when wet, dusts when dry and gets everywhere. There were times in spring when I’d drive in from somewhere around John with a load of muck strapped to the sides and the first stop in John was the truck wash. Forty bucks later I could see out and the truck was 200 lbs lighter.

          5. Hey, PO:

            Nothing beats that Peace Country gumbo!

            We kept coming across clods of it in our backyard garden. It may have been clay, but it wasn’t particularly good for pottery as the wife of my old scoutmaster, who was a potter herself, once commented.

            There appears to be a seam of it because I remember my parents and I coming across the same stuff up by either the Halfway or Graham Rivers when going there at Mile 95.

      2. I take a lot of joy in replacing whiners like you. You won’t be missed, and the right will be better off for not having you around.

        Calgary sucked before the year 2000. There was nothing to do besides The Stampede.

        1. Like Jack Palance “I ain’t dead yet”.
          Calgary sucked more when the likes of you showed up post 2000. Blow it out your ear. You gotta be from some eastern shizzole, always need some shiny trinket to keep you occupied, like that kid in the cereal commercial. Or a noise maker.
          Got two feet, go for a hike, or walk, or bike, skate, or kayak the Bow. Head to Cochrane and hang glide, or down to Nanton and glide. Buy a motor bike and do some road work. Put some bugs on yer teeth. Golf for crying’ out loud. Buy some friends while yer at it. Join a ball team, watch some ball, buy a friggin’ camera and record where you’ve been, what you’ve done. Just something to do today I listed the places I’ve been that you certainly haven’t, south from Dawson City Yukon to Prince George and west to the Charlottes. Pics to prove it. Haven’t done Hwy 97 yet. Then there’s southern BC, a whole lotta AB, Sask, MB, Ont, Que, the Maritimes, NWT and even Greenland SFB. By sea Billy and a whole lotta vehickle.
          What’d you do, vacuum your little condo? Open a can of Zoodles?

          1. Pretty sure you can still do all those things. On top of that there’s sushi and a lot of other interesting places to go.

          2. PO:

            I used to live right beside Marlborough Town Square in the late 1970s. I remember heading out towards Strathmore, finding a fairly dark place, setting up my camera, and taking some terrific night sky pictures. I used ASA 25 film for that and got some good results.

          4. @7:46  pm foobert:
            To Bernie,
            I enjoyed looking at your beautiful photos immensely. There’s quite a variety of them, everything from the many beautiful places in Western Canada to Budapest Hungary. Your family photos are equally precious! Also, loved the 1960 turquoise colored Corvette!

            You certainly have some great souvenirs there. I like your sign that says “Walk This Way.”

            Watch Aerosmith – “Walk This Way”  (from You Gotta Move) on YouTube
            https://youtu.be/pL4uESRCnv8

            Thanks,
            Nancy

      3. Bingo PO’d…lol.

        I got here in ’76, leaving the lower MAOland for a job… Calgary was awesome then, had some great bars: Highlander, the Liner, The Beacon ( saw Mitsy Dupree there- totally entertaining), The Majestic, Trade Winds & the Refinery to name a few..those were the days..!! I miss that city. And live in its massively enlarged shell.

        You could walk downtown carrying a box of beer, sit down outside a cabaret during Stampede and down a few…nobody said boo.

        The times have def changed. I started my trades/welding/QC career working on the LRT tunnel thru boot hill…and am likely the ONLY person to have driven a car through said tunnel losing my muffler in the process…some alcohol was apparently involved.

        Yep…good times. Gone forever
        Cheers

          1. I was eating sushi in the Bessborough Hotel in Saskatoon in 1980. You weren’t born yet.
            Some of the best Dim Sum in China town, Calgary in 1975.

          2. I remember having supper on New Year’s Eve 1977 at some hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant in Calgary. I recall that it was right by the Langevin Bridge.

        2. The Highlander? Is that the place located along 16th Avenue across from that big shopping centre?

          If that’s the same location, I remember when it was a disco in early ’78. I wasn’t particularly impressed. A bunch of my buddies from my undergrad days ended up in Cowtown shortly before I was transferred to the city. One night, we decided to go there. Most of them asked some young lady or another to dance, but two of us just sat at our table, wondering “What on earth are we doing here?”

          1. Yeah, it’s changed quite a bit since. It became a Maritimer hangout in the 80’s.

          2. That sounds familiar. A lot of watering holes were adrift for a while after disco, thankfully, died.

            There used to be a Maritimer bar in my part of Edmonton, along Calgary Trail a few blocks south of Whyte Avenue. It closed a while back. The place was OK, but I thought the beer was a bit too expensive.

        3. Yeah …. those were them days of young.
          Cabarets, girls, beer, dancing …
          Doesn’t happen anymore.
          You wonder what are the 18 – 30 years old doing.

          1. Video games. Not much changed for the last 20 years. We’ve got two 20 something, grand kids. Only difference is they play on their phones.

  11. This is why western separation won’t work.

    Unification with President Trump’s United States—and the purging of Canadian institutions of globalist stooges—will.

    1. R T, sorry but the U.S. is just as far down the rabbit hole. The reaction to the government shutting people down and off as it were met no resistance. They are even worse than we are if you spend any time there as I do. Government control of damn near everything just like Canaduh.

  13. While I don’t really understand this – why attract people to already popular areas for people to run, walk, bike, take the dog, etc. – there aren’t any cars on the road anyway! The Elbow one is really strange cause there is lots of room there anyway and you can even swing to the other side if you’re really worried.

    At the same time, it’s for 24 hours when no one is driving anywhere anyway and none of these closures is going to impact traffic. I’d still like to get rid of bike lanes, though…..

    1. The idea I think is that the people walking around outdoors will have more space for social distancing. Not saying it’s a good idea but the headline and stupid OP is misconstruing it wildly.

  14. If we are able to put a rational limit of government,the demographics of Edmonton and Calgary will take care of themselves.
    While the current, big useless bureaucracies,voting for more taxpayer cash as a unionized bloc dominates,we(taxpayers) are screwed.
    However the current model has run out of “Other people money” and while it can be propped up with running the printing presses,faith in the unit of exchange is tanking.
    Also the taxpayer is being treated to a rare show,the political promises and assumed good of governance are falling apart on a daily schedule.
    With no hockey,the bars closed and nothing but lying morons on our TVs, even the “non political” Canadians might start to notice just how useless and expensive our “Good Government” really is.

    The posting yesterday of the timeline of official utterances on the Wuhan Flu,by these bureaucrats and their elected mouthpieces, is priceless…when does the animated version come out?
    Western Independence is even more necessary n ow,as the Confederation,heavy on the Con, is done.
    All that is left is the bar tab.
    Declaring Independence with a maximum permissible cost of governance set to 10% total,would clean out the festering pockets of professional helpers and if declared while Confederated Canada still exists,will allow the parasites to move to Confederated territory..
    Where their “skills” are respected and in demand..
    WEXIT is not dead,it is coming like a prairie storm,for all the wrong reasons.National Bankruptcy being #1.

    1. Nobody here but me wants a rational limit on government. One side wants to use it as a hammer against gun owners, the other against brown people.

      1. Typical lie from a cretin who want white people exterminated and western culture eradicated.

        Did they empty your loony bin out of Chicom Flu fears like they did with prison inmates in California? Is that why you’re back? You can FOAD anytime. It is a much nicer place without you. As a matter of fact everything is much nicer without you. Subhuman.

  15. Noticed the engines revving louder and faster up the hills here in the NW. The streets are emptier, so the need for speed is wide open for the Fast and the Furious.

  16. When SHTF I will be sorting people to the left and right, but not politically. The left will be all humanities, while the right will be trades. Your guess what fore.

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