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I’m sorry my story sucked
If you read my story on the labour dispute between the owners of Monterey Place and its employees, I’m sorry. It sucked. Sometimes I read the online comments underneath my stories, and it’s pretty...
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Who is Naheed Nenshi meeting with? UPDATED through September
Every month, the mayor’s office publishes a list of everybody Naheed Nenshi has met with at his Old City Hall office. It’s his voluntary alternative to the lobbyist registry that exists in Alberta...
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FOIPs prompt Diane Colley-Urquhart to post schedule, expenses on Twitter
I want to share another item that was recently FOIPed. My Nov 2010-Dec 2012ward expense budget ow.ly/hElni — Alderman Diane (@BigRedyyc) February 12, 2013 Ward 13′s alderman sent out that Twitter...
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Common Sense Calgary: where are all their friends now?
Common Sense Calgary, the newest advocacy group speaking out on the civic election campaign, has gone from having 11 publicly disclosed supporters to having seven to having zero. In a span of two days,...
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UPDATED: Will candidates disclose donors before election? We’re asking. (and...
There will be a lot of money sloshing around at the ward level this election campaign, and lots of special interest, um, interest. By law, winners and losers don’t have to reveal their donors until...
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2013 Campaign donations: the candidate lists
The candidate filing deadline passed March 1, but it will likely be another week before the city’s election office posts all those records to its website. The Herald viewed the documents in person, and...
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Payback time: Andre Chabot and Joe Magliocca make amends for questionable...
Over the last couple months, the Herald has paid a fair bit of attention to what councillors drink on the public dime — like office-brewed espresso and Italian restaurant wine. Both of those things...
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Opposition parties blast PC government over sunshine list
Opposition parties lashed out at the PC government over its recent decision to reverse course on its plan to require agencies, boards and commissions to disclose salaries and severances of employees...
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Hall Monitor: Council's gift registry, and who gave
I read a column Monday that enlightened me on what sort of classy theatre productions, rodeo events and other soirees councillors got to attend. Alberta Ballet! Calgary Flames! More Stampede events...
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Hall Monitor: Colley-Urquhart had no gifts, or just nothing to report?
It’s not that Diane Colley-Urquhart doesn’t get the invitations. She just turns a lot of them down, and has a different approach to disclosure than many of her council peers. The southwest Ward 13...
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