73 Replies to “#YYCVOTE”

  1. Do pissed off people tend to vote more?
    Went to Winston Heights (inner city, just north of downtown) at 5 pm… +70 people in the line up outside the front door. Polling agents were heard by me to be saying how busy it had been / is.
    Voted for the guys that look like me. (as if I needed to say that?).

  2. Judging from the amount of white hair at my polling station this morning (pre 10 AM no less) & the numbers lined up, a possibility that grey hair will rule today. This Ward is “new” & deep SW, so demographics are generally Torontonian in outlook. Be still my heart. Provincial & federal affairs are quiet in comparison.
    alberta traffic is captcha

  3. A major downside of Nenshi losing (if he does), is that we can be certain to see him in federal politics within a year or two. He will be running in Calgary federally in 2019. I’m certain of it. 5-10 years after that, he could be a candidate for PM.

  4. The lines inside the polling station when I went to vote were about 50 people. The line outside waiting to get in was over 100. By the time I had voted, the line outside had swelled to 150.
    Nenshi supporters were visible at C-train stations and along 14th street (commuter route). On a totally unrelated note, school was out and it was a non-instructional day. I wonder how many unionized teachers called in sick today?

  6. old lori – “5-10 years after that, he could be a candidate for PM.”
    ——————————-
    Only if he speaks French.

  7. The Nensh would screw up the phrase “do you want fries with that”? I can just see him at the Mc’s window berating someone who ordered wrong, “food is hard to order”, we can only hope that this is the turning point against the progressives that are anything but progressive, the Rach’s the Nensh’s and Lispin all need to work in the medical industry, putting the cotton in the top of asprin bottles, even that would be hard for them.

  8. The teachers were manning the polling stations. Get paid for the “holiday” & double dip on voting day.

  9. If (please God) Nenshi loses the vote tonight, he’ll always be able to get a gig on CBC – they love him. He was a regular commentator on CBC radio for at least a year before throwing his hat in the ring. Or he could go back to being an instructor in “non profit management” at Mount Royal University. Maybe “non profit management” explains why Calgary property taxes have doubled in some cases.

  10. I think he’d done. Higher than normal turnout is usually bad news for the incumbent.

  11. Public schools may have been out, but think the Catholic system was still in. Our local polling station is the nearby public school. Have had different volunteers for candidates come door-knocking to see if voted, if need a ride to polling station (a block away), etc.

  12. I’m in Ontario with no dog in this fight, but as an elderly dual citizen who has stood in some long lines of voters in both the U.S. and Canada, my bet is the crowds are voting to THROW THE BUM(S) out and NOT to vote for “4 more years”. Based on what people are writing in this string I’d say Nenshi is done.

  13. I’d be careful of that “double” figure, but if it gets ole Nensh the Bench, I’m happy to assist.
    I live here. My property taxes under Nenshi are 20% higher since he arrived on the scene. Market value has flipped around in a range. Depending on where you live, your number may differ. “Fees” like garbage & recycling became separate line items starting in 2009 on our utility bills, before that it was included in property taxes. That’s maybe where the “doubling” is coming from in Bill Smith’s platform.
    A lot of jiggery pokery goes into “market value” assessments, believe me. I’ve lived at the same address 20 years & I plot the costs annually. First 8 years property just mumbled along, then from 2006 to 2008 ZOOM, suddenly we’re looking at double the original purchase price & then some. Since then, annual swings of $50,000 to $100,000 either way, but a level was distinctly reached in year 10 of ownership. The housing crash 08 & oil crash 15 are just blips in the grand pricing scheme.
    Property taxes reached a low in 2003, then its a straight line up to where we are now.

  14. They ran out of ballots at some polls.
    The electorate is angry, like an old man sending soup back at the deli.

  15. I think he’s cooked. His young ‘n dumb fans turned out in the last election, and with so little turnout it was enough to cake-walk to victory. Voters who turn out this time but didn’t last time I expect will not be pro-Nenshi. I also wouldn’t be surprised if some of his young n’ dumb fans are older and less fan-ish today than the last election some years ago.
    Is Smith good though? Does he like Uber and secondary suites?

  16. Funny you should mention that, my wife joked this morning that “at this rate, they’ll probably run out of ballots”, as they filled ours out.
    When we voted, we got asked “how long have you lived in this Ward?”, because they couldn’t find our names on the tax roll. We’ve voted in muni elections before in this Ward. Lived here 20 years, longer than the school we voted at has been around.

  17. Apparently also the wrong ballots were delivered to some polling stations. We went early afternoon to vote and a line-up even then. The process was slower than the second coming and – even with four workers – the polling booths rarely had more than two at a time. Would have hated to go in any later.

  18. A shift to the right will rock the prog world.
    Everyone from bongo on down will be having
    loose bowel movements effective immediately. You can hear the toilets starting to flush. Haha

  20. It’s bedtime for Bonzo here in the east, but as I type this Nenshi (853) has doubled Smith’s vote (416) with just 4 of 234 polls reporting. When you see something jump that much with the addition of just ONE poll it smells of ‘vote stuffing’ a la Chicago and Detroit …I’m just sayin’…..
    Nighty-byes everybody. Here’s hoping Smith prevails.

  22. I disagree, Nenshi will not be done, he will pull a Glen Murray, and pack his carpetbag for ON, all while bad mouthing Calgarians as bigots, racists, and whatever prog card he can pull out of his a**. The Libranos there will find him a TO city council riding (with a large Muslim population) to run in. From there, onto Provincial gov’t, once the Wynne stench clears. (Brown, the red tory, will only be Premier of ON for one term, at best.)

  23. Waited in line for 1 hour 45 minutes. Polling station had no councillor ballots left. Ridiculous. They were couriering them around town in taxis. Insane. They better hope this isn’t close cause there will be a lot of controversy.

  24. 10:30 pm Calgary time, Nenshi with apparently a 10k lead, enjoy your socialist utopia Calgary, you asked for it.
    Captcha text: Public Castle
    How appropriate.

  25. Al the basking fish! 10% of the votes are counted, we have no idea if it’s NE ballots counted, there’s been a recount started (before a final vote tally) and some stations reported being out of certain ballots and not others…
    It’s a shit show for sure…

  26. Meanwhile, Don Iveson has been re-elected here in Edmonton. Then again, he didn’t have much opposition as there wasn’t much else to choose from.
    The progressiveness continues here in the City of Champions…..

  27. Yes. No Calgary Mayor that I know of has ever been deposed. They always either resigned or applied for a provincial/federal upgrade first.
    That is the way of successful politicians. Don’t squander your base, use it as a stepping stone. If you lose, you lose big.

  32. It wasn’t even close. The left holds Calgary. They love the power (over other people’s lives) and get out the vote to keep it.

  33. all the cities are lost and now they’re going to start moving Browns into the small towns. It’s already started. Their stategy us working. We must raise white consciousness and start engaging in identity politics.

  34. ”and now they’re going to start moving Browns into the small towns.”
    It started long ago!!

  35. the left made everything about rave so let’s make it about race. If we play the “I’m not racist” game it doesn’t work anyways. This is becoming am existential struggle for our people and our nation.

  37. Sad night, however do keep in mind that in municipal governments, the councilors rule.
    If the majority of the council wants to make your life miserable, you’re in deep trouble!!

  38. Why do you think Nenshi is raising taxes all the time? How many more 50 year old white owned small businesses have to be forced out of Calgary? Who’s buying the real estate? Lots of rich Arabs and Chinese out there just saying. And make way for the replacement population.

  40. Not the result that I wanted, but 10 of 14 councilors are fiscal conservatives endorsed by the CTF. The union backed councilors mostly lost.

  41. Looks like the racists and biggots of Calgary turned out in droves again…and voted for Nenshi.
    YGTGYD
    Enjoy the decline.

  42. It is almost as if when Cities grow multicultural they grow more socialist. Who would have thought? It is as if all the cultural enrichers from every turd world socialist $hithole in the world have voted for a socialist. It is almost as if incompetence did not matter to those people as long as they get to enjoy more free $hit. It is almost as if Canada was slowly turning to the mirror image of turd world $hithole those very cultural enrichers crawled from in the first place. Nah it is all a coincidence I am sure.

  43. He’s not my mayor!! When confronted by evil such as Nenshi, knowing that he is going to be a hitler then anything you do to stop him is morally justified.
    Resist, Resist, shout, stomp, beat, crush, anything goes for those on the right side of history.

  44. Well, guess it is time to move. See ya Calgary, thanks for the good 90’s and 2004 memories…
    Wife has been hinting at moving, she might just be onto something. Carstairs, Didsbury or Olds?

  45. “This is becoming am existential struggle for our people and our nation.”
    Truer words…..this is absolutely no joke! Canadians’ smugness and phoney virtue will literally be the death of us. The indoctrinating rot begins in the school systems, grows and festers in the body politic.

  46. Carstairs, Didsbury, and Olds will soon fill with socialist immigrants too. Its the way they do things.

  49. Better yet, Three Hills, Linden or Trochu. They’re full of Hutterites and rednecks.
    You know, our kind of people.

  50. C’mon guys, your western separation dreams aren’t dead just yet.
    You’ll just have to leave leftist Calgary behind.
    A couple of delusional dipwads challenged me last week when I said Alberta was now too infected with leftardism to vote to leave. Proof…. meet pudding.

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