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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Joined December 2008
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Premier Danielle Smith will address the province tonight at 6:45pm. We will be carrying that address tonight on Global Calgary. She will then take questions from reporters on Wednesday morning.
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Premier Danielle Smith will make a televised address Tuesday night at 6:45 following last night's referendum results. She will then take questions at a press conference Wednesday morning at 11:30
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Prominent conservative activist @JeffreyRWRath told @Ebay_10 it's important to recognize the more than 300,000 Albertans who voted to leave Canada. He also says in his view, Alberta independence will never be realized as long as "avowed federalist" Danielle Smith leads the UCP.
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A visibly shaken Pierre Poilievre addresses his constituency in Wainwright
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Industry Minister Melanie Joly has written to the President of Stelco, warning them that the up to 500 layoffs in Hamilton constitutes a breach of their 2024 agreement with the federal government to maintain unionized employment until 2029. She is giving the company five days to present a plan or potentially face “an application to the superior court for orders that may include directing compliance, divestiture, or monetary penalties” #cdnpoli
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Here is a chart being presented to Calgary city councillors about how tariffs on a piece of steel makes it to a city project.
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NEW: City of Calgary estimates show 65% of tariff impact on the municipality comes from Canadian retaliatory tariffs, while 35% of the estimated exposure comes from U.S. tariffs.
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NEW: Calgary's Executive Committee has voted 8-2 to endorse these proposed increases to city water rates in the upcoming four-year budget. The rates will now go to city council for a final say. Couns. Ward and Wyness voted against.
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Mark Carney says that Stelco's American owners "betrayed" the up to 500 workers the company is set to layoff in Hamilton. Cleveland-Cliffs agreed with the feds not layoff anyone until 2029, a deal Carney plan to "pursue to the full extent of the law" There was money on the table from the feds to avoid layoffs according to Carney, who noted that Cleveland-Cliffs CEO has been a vocal Trump steel tariff supporter, while the company blamed those tariffs as one reason why over 80% of their Hamilton workforce is set to be laid off #cdnpoli
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NEW: Calgary city council has released preliminary budget estimates for the 2027-30 budget. It outlines three property tax increase scenarios that would see the typical Calgary homeowner paying an additional $52/month.
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NEW: City of Calgary says the concrete pipe and new steel feeder main between the Shaganappi Pump Station and 73 Street N.W. is now complete. Water restrictions are expected later this year as the new Bearspaw feeder main is hooked up to the system.
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NEW: The City of Calgary says a member of 911 dispatch is “no longer with the city” after a review of the response to the 911 call for missing 11 y/o Parker.
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Council did not debate the motion after Ward 2 Coun. Jennifer Wyness moved to immediately call the vote.
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