Calgary Cowbell

nicely said.

OK, I agree. Check out the Worst of 2009 Special Edition - Alberta Conservatives

I reallyb hope I'm not turning int a zombie?

The one along 5th Ave NW from Crowchild to 10th Street is brand spankin' new and looking great. Bogotá is another city setting a great example, not only with it's weekly Sunday Ciclovía route but bike lanes throughout the city much like you describe in Montreal. http://www.streetfilms.org/ciclovia/

"Some things aren't for sale", chimes the Cowboy ethos. Yeah, only MOST things are for sale with Joe, like his City Council votes.

....so, too, the security around it, the abuse of power, the racial profiling, and the treatment of the people who live in the housing units close at hand.

At Chinook station, the disabled and elderly, are forced to purchase their tickets outside - in the winter - it can be brutal....I hope there is a more humane and compassionate way of handling this station. The loud bird calls (obnoxious) that you hear at this station, you would not get away with near city hall....as the public would not tolerate ... See Moreit. Also - who got paid for the metal spikes to deter birds from sitting....incredible waste of tax payers dollars - so too, the advertising on the buses - which, if you were a person of color - much of the messaging is very blatant - and I do not find it acceptable, nor humorous. I wish to be a positive contributor, however - the ghettoing of our communities through city planning - with some areas getting preferential treatment - is a most disturbing trend. Turn it around, please.

people react to brand names, even in politics, in either a positive way...voting for them, or in a negative, by assailing them.
whether there is any validity to these connectives they submit willingly to them by virtue of blind loyalty, the gullibility of self that seeks direction via media assaults on certain brand names as well as shameless ... See Morepromotions of other ones.
all too often these assaults and promotions are laden with lies and deceptions and yes, words and descriptives rendered both meaningless as well as extremely hypocritical. as an example, when the 'conservatives' of harper attacked the liberals for the various sins committed by them, it was seen to be that there was a new political order awaiting in the wings. the reality though was that these very characters were busily doing the very same things, and even moreso once they came into power....thus making them a far worse political entity than the previous; its one thing to engage in such chicanery, but something entirely different-and worse-to rail against it all and then to commit the same sins when able to.

when given the opportunity to do so.
but the real tragedy here isn't that they are committing such acts of malice and immorality, but that they continue to be supported by those who voted them in, many of them on the strength of presenting themselves as being pure, different than the 'corrupt' *left-libs* of the previous administration...

such hypocrisy-from the top down, and from the bottom up....