Darren Krause

Elections Alberta has offered clarity that may give some added flexibility to those entities campaigning for or against Alberta’s upcoming separation referendum question. The province’s Chief Electoral Office issued a new Referendum Advertising Interpretation Bulletin on July 8, to help provide guidance on what is and isn’t considered advertising under the Election Finances and […]

Noise complaints around Calgary’s Stampede music tents continue to scale up, and one councillor said he’s hearing more from communities to the west of Cowboys Park. As of 7 a.m. on July 9, the City of Calgary had received 186 noise complaints related to Stampede events and festival activities around the city. Of those, 124 […]

Stampede officials said 2026 attendance numbers are only one measure they use to determine the success of any given Calgary Stampede. Senior leadership with the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth met with media on Sunday morning, ahead of the final day, and they said that it’s the quality of experience guests have when they are […]

New Calgary Downtown Association (CDA) executive director Sheila Taylor began her first day on the job Monday, ready to continue the core’s evolution. Taylor, the former longtime executive director of Parks Foundation Calgary and former Calgary Board of Education school board trustee, was named to the position by the CDA’s board of directors, effective July […]

Calgary city council’s Executive Committee has moved ahead on a plan to study what a lobbyist registry could look like at city hall. The vote, which passed almost unanimously on July 14, directs city administration to report back on the scope and cost of a system that would track lobbyist activity at city hall. It […]

It’s been nearly 41 years that Calgary’s top bureaucrat and other city officials have flanked the mayor at the head of council, but that arrangement could soon change. Councillors agreed to advance a Notice of Motion from Ward 3 Coun. Andrew Yule that would review the seating position of the Chief Administrative Officer and perhaps […]

Calgary has opened the bus doors on a potential fare integration strategy with Airdrie Transit, with more information expected next year. Members of the Intergovernmental Affairs Committee unanimously approved city admin recommendations to produce a scoping report and the feasibility of potential regional fare integration. Those recommendations, if approved at a future meeting of council, […]

The North Calgary Water Servicing project is roughly 30 per cent over its initial budgeted cost, and it has one councillor questioning the city’s approval-friendly cost estimates. During the July 15 discussion at the Infrastructure and Planning Committee meeting, on a Glacier Ridge growth application, councillors were told that the major water redundancy being built […]

The maximum pay band for Calgary’s Chief Operating Officer jumped by 29 per cent for 2026, separating the position from the City of Calgary’s general managers. Further, in an analysis of public compensation disclosures, director-level pay bands were uniformly boosted from a maximum pay of either $218,500 or $262,500 to a 2026 maximum band of […]

Calgary’s mayor said that the $510 million in federal municipal infrastructure cash announced Wednesday will be ‘game-changing’ for cities, especially those who are seeing significant population growth. The Government of Canada and the Alberta government signed an agreement on July 29 that will allow Alberta municipalities to access more than half a billion in funding […]