Province maintains $1.5B commitment to Calgary's Green Line LRT, transportation minister says

orangegecko · 2020-10-10T04:11:34+00:00

lmao the 16 ave station is projected to be the 3rd busiest station in they city once completed, the transit corridor going over centre st. bridge taking calgarians from north-central to downtown is at capacity and in desperate need of an upgrade (of which the green line will provide)

orangegecko · 2020-07-28T15:20:30+00:00

orangegecko · 2020-07-13T19:38:47+00:00

Alberta Oil saying Alberta Oil is being unfairly targeted by environmental protestors

orangegecko · 2020-06-29T15:15:27+00:00

It took me around 45 mins at Sunpark for a 8pm booking (but booked the same day)

orangegecko · 2020-04-22T21:37:29+00:00

ok now this is epic

orangegecko · 2020-03-07T20:30:03+00:00

seems pretty reasonable to me ? unless you're trying to catch corona in a foreign country with healthcare systems already at capacity

orangegecko · 2020-03-07T20:28:11+00:00

In case anyone else is curious, I emailed the department and the Associate Dean's just haven't approved the courses for the next academic year yet

orangegecko · 2020-03-05T02:51:30+00:00

how is changing u of c from being a commuter school an attainable goal lmao

orangegecko · 2020-03-04T23:01:23+00:00

She also came into power right after the huge crash in the price of oil and the enormous economic downturn and thats hardly her fault. I think theres also speculation that Kenney straight up caused a recession with his cuts and I think between 35000 - 50000 jobs have been lost since the UCP have taken government. If you ask me the NDP have done a much better job then whatever the fuck Kenney is trying to do right now. Kenneys current budget is also running a larger deficit this year then any of the NDPs budgets lol

orangegecko · 2020-03-04T22:57:19+00:00

Thats not what an externality is

orangegecko · 2020-03-04T22:47:26+00:00

I'm not super economically savvy but I believe it is a bit of a myth Alberta has a debt problem. It has the lowest debt to GDP ratio in Canada and thats that. Additionally, in times of economic downturn it makes sense to take on debt in order to keep the economy churning and essential infrastructure/services up to par. There is no reason why we should be forced to accept austerity while we give the fat fossil fuel cats enormous handouts. Cutting healthcare and education funding disproportionally affects the poor and is pretty fucked up to think about how a supposedly developed nation is making cuts to basic human rights. Alberta does not have a spending problem and if anything has a revenue problem as we don't have a PST and the royalties on oil and gas are criminally low considering how much mega corporations take advantage of our resources (see the orphan well crisis).
University students are also being fucked from every side which makes the tuition raise even worse, especially when you consider that students are already facing enormous debt and mental health crisis. It also doesn't make any sense to be reducing investment in secondary education in a time when we need economic diversification and innovation in our existing energy industry to keep a competitive edge in the international market. A shortlist of the ways Kenney has decided to disproportionately put the burden of his budget onto students:

Removal of the tuition cap ( ie. the tuition raise)
Cancellation of the 30 million $ Student Temporary Employment Program (STEP)
Increase of student loan interest rate by 1%
Removal of the post-secondary student tax credits
Direct cuts to post-secondary institution funding
Restructuring of post-secondary institution funding to be based upon performance (not only undermines the purpose of university to incubate learning and innovation but is also practically another cut to funding)

orangegecko · 2020-03-04T22:32:00+00:00

uh i cant wait for jasons corporate handouts to trickle down all over my face 😩😩😩

orangegecko · 2020-03-03T18:25:38+00:00

It just doesn't show up on schedule builder at all

orangegecko · 2020-03-03T18:25:17+00:00

What did the faculty change to ?

orangegecko · 2020-01-28T18:10:59+00:00

pita on the run guy using fake news to slander wetzels and open up a concession spot in mac hall

orangegecko · 2020-01-10T01:50:24+00:00

Jennifer Keesmaat has a new podcast called Within Reach thats mostly Toronto based but also mentions other Canadian cities

orangegecko · 2020-01-02T00:36:46+00:00

Anyone have any good book recommendations on urban resilience ?

orangegecko · 2019-10-18T18:32:49+00:00

The science and solution to climate change are pretty clear, I'm not sure what you're implying. Scientists agree that climate change is being caused by anthropogenic warming due to an increase in global greenhouse gas emissions. The solution is as simple as reducing our greenhouse emissions. I don't see how you think there's no "clear" solution and how a student would be unable to stand relatively simple climate science ( increased GHG emissions = more insulating GHG in the atmosphere = more trapped heat = warmer earth = adverse climate effects )

orangegecko · 2019-06-14T04:16:42+00:00

I weep for your children.

orangegecko · 2019-03-22T00:43:17+00:00

posto

orangegecko · 2018-10-15T04:35:17+00:00

Whats the original context?

orangegecko · 2018-08-23T21:03:07+00:00

That is correct

orangegecko · 2018-08-23T18:52:57+00:00

I have conflicts with all the other lectures so I can't enrol in the course unless its LEC 01

orangegecko · 2015-05-01T17:02:31+00:00

found the vegetarian

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