Calgary Grit

Category: 2010 Calgary Municipal Election

  • 2010 Person of the Year

    As 2010 winds down, it’s time to pick a Calgary Grit Person of the Year for the 7th consecutive year. The criteria is simple – a person who made an impact on the Canadian political scene in 2010 (ruling out obvious choices like the PM, or lame picks like “you“). But this was a tough […]

  • Lessons from Naheed

    Generally speaking, the rest of Canada treats Alberta politics as nothing more than a punch line: “Calgary: If you don’t like the weather, wait 40 minutes. If you don’t like the government, wait 40 years“. “The Alberta government is considering adding ‘Liberals’ to the endangered species list“. That sort of stuff. Because of that, no […]

  • Calgary Votes Live Blog

    10:35 pm: We’re ready to call it. Calgary’s next mayor: Yes, that’s right. Canada’s conservative heartland just elected a mayor who is a visible minority, practicing muslim, Harvard graduate, university professor, and a policy wonk. And he wears purple. Nenshi’s rise is truly astonishing when you consider that he was polling in single digits, 35 […]

  • What’s the matter with the Calgary Sun?

    The Sun endorses a Harvard elitist for Mayor of Calgary: The Sun has never shied away from taking a bold stand when we believe it will benefit Calgarians. We believe Naheed Nenshi should be Calgary’s next mayor. Luckily, they explain their decision: He’s a prof at Mount Royal University, but doesn’t engage in the egghead […]

  • Stampede to the Polls: The Candidates Speak

    UPDATE – Joe Connelly and Naheed Nenshi have been added at the bottom Even though I only had time to profile four of the candidates running for mayor in Calgary (McIver, Higgins, Nenshi, and the since withdrawn Kent Hehr), I don’t want to completely overlook the other candidates. Some of these men and women have […]

  • What’s the matter with Calgary?

    Dear Calgary, You used to be cool. You were the conservative rebel without a cause. You welcomed George Bush and Sarah Palin with open arms. You could always be counted on for a good pro-Iraq war rally. Ann Coulter called you “the good Canadians”. The man who embodied this Calgary image was Ralph Klein. He […]

  • Stampede to the Polls: Barb Higgins

    Previous Profiles:Ric McIverKent HehrNaheed Nenshi The general consensus in Calgary seems to be that the mayoral race sits as: 1. McIver2. Higgins3. Nenshi Sure, guys like Bob Hawkesworth and Wayne Stewart are still in the mix but…well…life is too short to blog about Bob Hawkesworth. As such, this will be the fourth and final instalment […]

  • Right Turn

    Polls out today show fiscal conservatives ahead in Calgary and Toronto. Calgary (Leger, n=500 phone) Ric McIver 43% (profile)Barb Higgins 28%Naheed Nenshi 8% (profile)Kent Hehr 4.1% (profile)Bob Hawkesworth 3.9%Craig Burrows 3.6%Joe Connely 2.9%Wayne Stewart 1.8%Alnoor Kassam 1.4%Oscar Fech 1.2%Bonnie Devine 0.8%Paul Hughes 0.8%John Lord 0.4% Kassam and Hughes are actually out of the race. Likely […]

  • Stampede to the Polls: Naheed Nenshi

    Previous Profiles:Ric McIverKent Hehr In the third instalment of my 484 part series profiling Calgary mayoral candidates, I look at a man who has been writing about how Calgary should be run for many years. And he’s finally decided to do something about it. Naheed NenshiAbout Naheed: Naheed is a professor, a Harvard graduate, and […]

  • Let’s Get Municipal

    Calgary: Calgary is still buzzing over Barb Higgins’ entry into the Mayoral race, and there are reports she has hired Liberal strategist Don Lovett as her campaign manager. On the policy side, frontrunner Ric McIver has released his vision for Calgary, and Higgins has responded with her “policy framework“. Both are bland, unoriginal, and short […]

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