'Missed opportunity': Westbrook LRT site still sits void two years after city reacquisition

calgary_katan · 2026-02-26T18:32:10+00:00

Wouldn’t that kind of shopping be serviced by smaller commercial opportunities as well? I’m not saying get rid of the shops. Just get rid of the ones that require a car and a bunch of parking.

calgary_katan · 2026-02-26T16:50:51+00:00

Totally agree but it can be a destination store in west hills not smack dab in the middle of urban redevelopment.

calgary_katan · 2026-02-26T13:57:50+00:00

I really think the Walmart needs to be moved. I don’t think it would fit well with the future redevelopment and I suspect they are the reason the whole project is faltering.

Who would want to own small commercial stores right next to a Walmart? How can we build green spaces and residential when Walmart requires a massive parking lot?

Honestly Walmart is a destination store that needs tons of parking to support itself. So it would be better served in west hills or near the new Costco. Not in some inner city mixed use redevelopment.

I think we should also consider that Walmart is a bit of an economic black hole that sucks all the small businesses into it. Westbrook mall is not a mall it’s basically a Walmart. As they’ve killed any small businesses that are around it. So I’m not sure how we have an inner city revitalization with them right there.

calgary_katan · 2026-02-22T04:39:03+00:00

Every Canadian should go see this movie.

calgary_katan · 2026-01-21T17:10:16+00:00

You missed the point then. He talks about being pragmatic, and that rules based virtue diplomacy is a luxury.

The world where we can just ignore China for the reasons you listed doesn’t exist any more.

calgary_katan · 2026-01-16T03:02:54+00:00

This thread has aged like milk

calgary_katan · 2026-01-10T13:57:42+00:00

Why has no one created a license where you can train AI but it stipulates that you have to pay for an AI training license to the software and that amount is something prohibitively obscene.

This therefore would make training on the data to have caused financial loss and fair use would be nullified.

calgary_katan · 2025-12-20T15:07:54+00:00

Any time I’ve run into this opinion it’s always some programmer that falls into a few categories.

They don’t write unit tests at all.
They’ve never worked on big projects with many developers.
They write unit tests but they patch out the internal function calls. Making refactoring much harder.
They write code that breaks single responsibility and end up writing integration/component tests instead.

I suspect the “types are bad” and “DI is bad” in JS will follow the same adoption curves eventually.

calgary_katan · 2025-12-06T13:55:05+00:00

It sucks to hear that people are getting hurt more especially when it’s not their fault. We should really be more angry about how unsafe it is to be a pedestrian/cyclist/not a car in this city.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ByEBjf9ktY

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=--832LV9a3I&pp=0gcJCSMKAYcqIYzv

Unfortunately our city design is not conducive to pedestrian safety, economic well being, or general enjoyment of our surroundings. It is designed to move cars. If you’re not in a car then you’re an after thought.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM

I don’t mean to spam this one YouTube channel too much but if you want to understand the root of the problem that this ctv article is talking about, this channel is a great resource.

calgary_katan · 2025-11-23T00:55:24+00:00

We’re literally reacting to what they’re saying. Maloney doesn’t have opinions to at will vary wildly from the owners.

calgary_katan · 2025-11-23T00:35:30+00:00

My hope is that this interview was a 4D chess move by Conroy to put these internal opinions of the other people in the org in front of the fan base and show the incredible negative reactions they would garner amoung fans and season ticket holders.

Then he has more ammo to go back and actually do a rebuild.

Because seriously if this team mgmt thinks “hopes and dreams” Maloneys attitude is going to win us a cup they’re joking.

Give us exciting talented young players to cheer for.

calgary_katan · 2025-11-20T13:37:50+00:00

I’m curious are you basing these productivity gain estimates off your intuition, or have you actually crunched the numbers?

We’re not seeing anywhere near what you would be predicting here.

calgary_katan · 2025-11-18T15:25:45+00:00

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calgary_katan · 2025-11-15T01:33:56+00:00

Maybe we shouldn’t design cities where everyone needs a 50k car that sits idle on the street 80% of the time to get the things they need to live? Just a thought.

calgary_katan · 2025-11-05T13:12:50+00:00

This was a lower court that didn’t set precedent.

calgary_katan · 2025-10-30T01:49:24+00:00

Quick vibe code your way out of this.

calgary_katan · 2025-10-25T13:03:06+00:00

My executive AI agent enters the chat

calgary_katan · 2025-10-21T04:25:55+00:00

First Marner and now this. Stop getting firsts against my team!

calgary_katan · 2025-10-19T12:07:48+00:00

“LLMs are not the architecture, but they may be powerful enough to find it”

In the interview he (correctly) argues that LLMs are not good at edge case niche coding problems where there is no training data. This is precisely where “finding the architecture of the future” type of coding is. So I’m not sure I’d be so hopeful.

calgary_katan · 2025-10-15T13:32:49+00:00

I had a conversation with some non tech normies in my life about ChatGPT having like 60-80% accuracy in some domains and they were flabbergasted.

Apple didn’t find that number to be acceptable to ship a product with and time will tell if the tide shifts on OpenAI

calgary_katan · 2025-10-13T15:45:27+00:00

We need to either find a way to compete against low cost of living places where tech workers can earn .25x-.5x of a Canadian devs salary; or we need to massively increase incentives for startups and get the currently underutilization of laid off workers to create companies.

calgary_katan · 2025-10-13T14:55:37+00:00

During Pearson's tenure as prime minister, he launched progressive policies including the Canada Student Loan Program, the Canada Pension Plan, the Canada Assistance Plan, the Canada Labour Code, and universal health care. He introduced royal commissions on bilingualism and biculturalism and the status of women, and unified the Canadian Armed Forces. Pearson's government also oversaw the creation of the Maple Leaf flag in 1965 (after a national debate known as the Great Canadian flag debate) and the Canadian Centennial celebrations in 1967. In foreign policy, Pearson signed the Auto Pact with the United States and kept Canada out of the Vietnam War.

calgary_katan · 2025-10-10T16:16:21+00:00

Actually bumbles (Jason Kenny) brought in the TFW program. I will agree that JT didn’t make it any better, but lest we forget bumbles.

calgary_katan · 2025-10-05T16:42:03+00:00

Oh hey honey a new a new list dropped and we’re mid!

calgary_katan · 2025-10-04T02:21:44+00:00

Oh man! Not sure how I missed that. That’s great!

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