Municipal Round-Up — July 16: Stories of Miraculous Flip-Floppery
All the news that's fit to tweet
I’m handling the round-up this week while co-editor Paradis takes a well-earned break from Raging about municipal politics.
There’s a lot of smoke out there, so I may as well get to it.
What’s the Plural of Referendum?
Welcome to Alberta, where this October we’ll have to ask questions like, “Why am I voting about equalization while also electing a school trustee?” and “Is this Senate election valid?” and “Can a pickup truck park at a grocery store without idling the whole time?”
The latest question is what word we use for multiple, err, referendums.
Apparently it’s ‘referenda’ or ‘referdnii’ (although ‘referendums’ is also commonly used).
Flippity-Flop
How it started:
Then:
How it’s going:
Oh and Slave Lake Mayor Tyler Warman be like …
Friends Back On?
Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo Mayor Don Scott was not friends with the United Conservative Party back in February. Back then, angered by the province’s decision to axe local ambulance dispatch services, he said in a video, “I openly challenge the provincial government to remove me as the mayor.”
Whoa.
But what a difference five months makes. Things are warmer on that front now, apparently:
Calgary’s Fiscal Crisis
Alberta’s cities do the wrong thing chasing the praise of the people who don’t really like cities anyway, chapter 4,687:
Cars Don’t Shop
Big if true:
Is Edmonton Afraid of People?
Nothing frightens some cities more than many people gathering and enjoying themselves:
Ron, Or
Ron Orr is the new Minister of Culture and the Status of Women in Alberta. The mayor of Nanton is not having it: