Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still Out of Control

Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by Pxtl on Friday June 03, 2016 @08:03PM (#11834137)

Canada is big. Calgary is one small part, and that guy was exaggerating anyways. Let's remember that Calgary elected mayor Naheed Nenshi, a famously liberal Muslim who is pushing for better transit and more intensification. Iirc, Calgary was also the provincial stronghold of the NDP, a hard leftward swing of Alberta politics against the long control of the Progressive Conservative party.

But yes, the pay sucks for coders outside of Vancouver and Toronto, and there the insane housing market makes it not worth it anyways.

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Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by riphay on Friday June 03, 2016 @08:51PM (#11834308)

> Calgary was also the provincial stronghold of the NDP

Correction: Edmonton is the stronghold of the NDP. Premier Notley's seat in the Legislature is in Edmonton's Strathcona riding, and I believe before last year Edmonton was the only city to elect NDP MLA's. Calgary has always been a Progressive Conservative stronghold.

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Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by cmrdporcupine on Friday June 03, 2016 @10:54PM (#11834709)

Calgary has been die hard right wing for years. Edmonton is the stronghold for the NDP. And historically that was always the case. (I'm old enough to remember Jan Reimer as mayor in the 80s...)

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Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by fudged71 on Friday June 03, 2016 @09:54PM (#11834524)

He's pushing for better public transit, not necessarily private transit ;) #UberScandal

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