My office is partnering up with The City of Calgary and Calgary Police Service (CPS) for our 2018 Ward 12 Traffic Safety meeting. At this year’s meeting we will be giving citizens an opportunity to share information about specific traffic issues in their communities. The City and CPS will also be on hand to hear […]
During my time on Council I have had a chance to work on a lot of issues that resonate with Calgarians. I can’t think of an issue that has resulted in more traffic to my office than the Olympic debate. And I think that’s a healthy thing. Council has voted to move ahead with a […]
Since I joined Council in 2010 residential street issues have been the top concern brought to my office by residents. Residents are deeply concerned about street safety and excessive speed in their communities. I support building safe streets within our communities. We achieve that through stronger enforcement and offering appropriate infrastructure on our roadways. On […]
A few weeks ago The City of Calgary released the 2018 Civic Census results. The 2018 data tells an interesting story about Calgary and an interesting story about Ward 12. So let’s take a look at some of the data: Calgary is now home to 1,267,344 people. That is up 21,007 from 2017, an increase […]
Something exciting is coming to Calgary. Over the next year we will see one of the largest expansions in transit service in our history. The new service, called MAX, will change the way Calgarians move around our city. MAX will offer four brand new high-frequency direct connection routes: the South Crosstown BRT (opening fall 2018), […]
2018 has been a busy year thus far at City Hall. As the calendar flips into July, now seems like a good time to reflect on what has transpired over the first half of the year: Federal Government Announces Funding for Green Line LRT On May 15th, Prime Minister Trudeau was in Calgary to confirm […]
In June my office will be launching our first ever Ward 12 Speaker Series. Over the course of this term we will be hosting interesting speakers to discuss important issues facing our city. Our inaugural event will focus on the benefits and the challenges of living so close to nature. This event will start […]
I pride myself on being a pretty sensible guy. I think the best way to represent the residents of Ward 12 is by striving to be as informed as possible on the issues that come before Council. You can read some more details on my decision making process here. Being informed means understanding the facts […]
Good public policy is based on facts. Often times the big challenges for a Councillor are sifting through what is fact and what is fiction. Unfortunately, when decisive issues come before Council we see lobby efforts that try to blur the lines of what is real and what isn’t. On Monday, March 5th the Planning […]
For the last 20 years The City of Calgary has done an annual Citizen Satisfaction Survey. The survey asks Calgarians how they feel about The City’s performance, programs, services and overall quality of life in Calgary. I’ll be breaking this particular blog article up into two different parts. First I want to talk about the […]