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A message from FACILITYCalgary publisher Mark Kolke.
We are pleased to celebrate our relationship with iGIFTsight - a Calgary-based Canadian charity with a Canada-wide mission; if you've not heard about iGIFTsight, we urge you to invest a few moments of your time - click on a link to the site. You'll learn there is an unmet need for vision service in our communities. Getting eye exams, treatment, glasses and other corrective actions is something most of us take for granted as something we have funds or a benefit program, or that services are available where we live. This is made worse when families are already stretched so very far. If you can help, please consider helping in any that you can.
For information regarding iGIFTsight:
- donations and planned giving arrangments for iGIFTsight - contact: Mark Kolke: mark.kolke@igiftsight.ca
- for program information or to learn more about iGIFTsight programs, click here, or contact Mr. Aly Bandali, Pres. & CEO: alyb@igiftsight.ca
+ City of Calgary – WATER CRISIS – Stage 4 continues – reduced water consumption is required – but Calgarians aren’t reducing consumption enough …. construction has begun along 33rd Ave NW - 509 million litres used Sunday – still above threshold – WARNINGS are not being heeded by Calgarians; we need to recognize, WE ARE ON THE CUSP OF/ALREADY IN CRISIS: well said by Bell, and even better by Braid … the tic toc is not the ticking of uncertainty, but the ticking of a time-bomb likely to bring us to our thirsty knees – so, let’s TURN OFF OUR TAPS and go without for a while. This requires our attention NOW; we can vote with our ballots next fall, but for now, STOP using water that is not essential. Frankly, I don’t have a problem letting my dirty dishes pile up an extra day or two, but when I walk some neighbourhoods where the grass is a little too green (you know what I mean, I get angry), so whether you are the culprit or the whistleblower reporting the abusers: just stop already!
+ City of Calgary’s GREEN LINE project appears scuttled, derailed and completely run aground; Government of Alberta says they will NOT fund the current plan, and our City/Mayor have surrendered control over the future of the C-train expansion to the province – amid political theatre/politics being played by Premier Smith v. NDP’s Nenshi … it’s childish, stupid, and wasteful. Yes, the City serves at the pleasure of the province – and the province has the authority to fire City Council if it wishes, but the ‘save the new arena project, to kill the Green Line and not admit an ounce of responsibility for the water crisis is convenient partial-abdication of accountability by the UCP government. Calgarians agree, the Green line looks like a money pit of too much building and spending before finalizing design, but the province cannot say they’ve not been along for the ride and at the table for decades on our C-train plans is just simply not true and a lame excuse for politicking on the backs of Calgary taxpayers. It might serve the Premier’s battle with Ottawa and Nenshi, but it doesn’t serve Calgarians well or reflect properly on those who’ve made tough decisions and owned those decisions ...
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REMEMBRANCE
+ Linda Fox-Mellway, former community leader, City of Calgary Councillor, 76
+ Maurice McCaig, former President of Trimac Transportation, community supporter and everything cars and trucks enthusiast, 86
+ the PR and communications industry is getting AI help … or check out the interactive multichannel news release (note: full disclosure, FACILITYCalgary uses the PR newswire feed, among others, and while we don’t endorse anyone’s business – we find PR Newswire to be a superb resource and much content in each week’s FACILITYCalgary issue comes to us via newswires like PR Newswire every day)
+ Intact launched its 2024 Municipal Climate Resiliency Grants program; doubling this program to $2 million dollars over two years, supporting municipalities and communities across Canada develop and implement practical solutions to mitigate the future impacts of flooding and wildfire.
