Tickets for Cooper Alan - Canada 2023 Tour in Calgary from ShowClix. Doors 7 pm Show 8 pm Standing Room Only If you like country music and you’re on any social media app, you’ve probably seen Cooper Alan on your screen in the past two years. The up-and-coming country star has independen
I run an events account in Calgary, on FB/IG/Twitter, figured I could post some concerts here too. No affiliation with anyone, it's just a side project.
Apparently Edwin is back with I Mother Earth too
A sinkhole has temporarily closed eastbound traffic moving toward Calgary in Banff National Park, grinding traffic to a halt in the area.
The sinkhole has been assessed at seven metres long and two metres wide, the Town of Banff said on social media
One person has died on a popular cycling path in Banff National Park Saturday morning (Sept. 2).
Air Canada is slashing six major routes out of Calgary this winter, in part due to an industry-wide pilot shortage that the carrier says threatens its "overall operational stability."
The country's biggest airline confirmed Wednesday it will no longer offer non-stop flights from Calgary to Ottawa, Halifax, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Cancun, or Frankfurt as of the end of October due to ongoing fleet and crew constraints.
Air Canada is slashing six major routes out of Calgary this winter, in part due to an industry-wide pilot shortage that the carrier says threatens its "overall operational stability."
The country's biggest airline confirmed Wednesday it will no longer offer non-stop flights from Calgary to Ottawa, Halifax, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Cancun, or Frankfurt as of the end of October due to ongoing fleet and crew constraints.
Sell your stuff or pick up some new-to-you equipment at the Community Gear Sell & Swap on Sunday, September 10 at The Fenlands. This is a great way to sell gently used winter sports, camping and recreation items. Sell things like camping gear, equipment for team sports such as hockey, figure skating, cross-country, downhill and backcountry skis, snowboards, snowshoes, fat bikes and winter sport related clothing and safety equipment like helmets, beacons, etc.
The event will also include a Banff Minor Hockey fundraising BBQ.
- Free to attend!
- Open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
- Register online at https://Banff.ca/Active
- Facebook event - https://www.facebook.com/events/1006521004025292/
- Tables only $5! Between 8 - 9 a.m. a limited number of first-come first-serve shared tables will be available for those with only a few items on the day.
Questions? Call 403-762-1235 or email recreation@banff.ca
- Issued: August 22, 2023
- Ends: September 06, 2023
You may have noticed a transformation in several of Calgary’s commercial streets over the past four years. Patios protected by colourful barriers now line some of our trendiest streetscapes. Within these barriers is a story of local art, collaboration, accessibility and safety.“At the outset of the ...
You may have noticed a transformation in several of Calgary’s commercial streets over the past four years. Patios protected by colourful barriers now line some of our trendiest streetscapes. Within these barriers is a story of local art, collaboration, accessibility and safety.
"At the outset of the seasonal patio program in 2020, it began as something more utilitarian – a response to the pandemic and an effort to support small businesses" explains Andrew Sedor, the Mobility Initiatives Lead at The City of Calgary. "Calgarians may remember these same streetscapes once covered with orange cones and barricades, now boasting art covered barriers, protective planters and bike / e-scooter parking platforms".
The evolution of these spaces is thanks to The City of Calgary’s partnership with the Beltline Urban Mural Project (BUMP) and the Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts).
Best Buy stores will soon offer Google Pixel smartphone repairs, right alongside Galaxy and iPhone devices.
Local advocacy groups say they're seeing an unprecedented number of people looking to give up their pets -- mostly dogs -- because they can't find housing.
Calgary’s tight rental market isn’t showing any signs of loosening up and the crunch is getting worse for those looking for pet-friendly housing. Cami Kepke has more on the lengths some are going to in difficult situations.
Personally? Yes. I don't drive though, nor do I live along the side streets lol
- https://twitter.com/CWalcottYYC/status/1677086585786097664
“The fire is still in progress and it looks like it will take out our entire Charleston residence,” said Dan Markham, communications director for Skiing Louise.
“The fire is still in progress and it looks like it will take out our entire Charleston residence,” said Dan Markham, communications director for Skiing Louise.
Using a paint scraper, Graeme says he's been removing stickers with hate speech that have been affixed to city fixtures since March 2022.
Canada Day celebrations Calgarians and visitors are invited downtown on July 1 for a full day of Canada Day festivities! This year’s free and family-friendly celebration features an Indigenous showcase and powwow, live music and will end with a fireworks show to light up the sky above Stampede Park....
I have a friend that went and he said he enjoyed it. He was expecting basically the entire place filled with vendor booths but he said it wasn't like that, lots of stations to play video games and stuff. Worth the $45 ticket? That I dunno.
The only post you've submitted here is this one.... about the CBC.. lol
Perhaps submit non-CBC links? Be the change you want to see.
Never used TekSavvy but always heard good things
hiii just CM now, the old name sucked haha
Lemmy seems like a decent reddit alternative. Hopefully it takes off in a big way. Seems to be getting much more notice at least.
Because it would be faster is all. I can do it myself of course but if I can link an article and ask it to summarize, and it does a good job of it, great. It doesn't need to be much, perhaps just extending beyond the headline a bit to provide a little more context. I can always add in my own as well.
It's not like the output would be some kind of drastically different information that I would take and share without reading it. I've always tried to only share accurate and trusted sources for news, beit MSM or subject matter experts. A source is always included. Also, I generally try to share news without an opinion attached to it but sometimes that can help.
Maybe I can attach a poll to every single article that I create a blog post for, gathering thoughts? Some kind of added value beyond a link would be cool.
The whole point is to circumvent the stupid blocking of articles being shared directly. This should actually be a really good thing for me because I'll be able to make some money from website ads too, but, I've always tried to provide the best experience possible when doing things online and having to share a middle-man approach to keep people informed sucks ass. I predict a lot of media websites will take a huge hit in traffic due to this, which means much less ad revenue. I have no idea why the government is doing this. Links to articles are not taking away anything imo. Services like Google AMP are different and those do take away from the articles, so maybe it's for stuff like that?
Testing it out, here's some examples,
I pasted in the link and said "please summarize this article up in a short paragraph"
"Taylor Swift has announced her upcoming tour this 2023 called “The Eras Tour” where she will perform her songs from past and present. The first leg of the tour has already been announced and it is described as “a journey through the musical eras of my career,” said Swift. However, Canadian cities like Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver were conspicuously absent from the list"
"According to CTV News, Const. Elena Golysheva of the Edmonton Police Service who joined the “Freedom Convoy” in Coutts, Alta., has been allowed back with Edmonton police"
"According to Global News, Lethbridge Police are warning the public about suspected fentanyl resembling candy bear"
"According to CityNews Calgary, Dr. Esther Tailfeathers resigned from the Indigenous Wellness Core after a hiring decision involving former Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw"
"According to The Toronto Star, Canada’s federal environment and climate change ministry has stated that compostable bags “contaminate recycling streams; and they have not proven to perform better than conventional plastics when littered on land or in water”. The bags “remain a threat of harm to wildlife, are difficult to recycle and have available alternatives”"
Results
The results are kinda disappointing but I might need to come up with a better query description. A couple of them were decent. All of them were accurate.
It's actually been a huge "source" unfortunately. A lot of people get their actual news from memes and copy/pasted bullshit.
I share a bunch of local news to Facebook and this is going to be a little annoying, but, I'll deal. I'm thinking about using AI to write a short summary of the news article and then creating a blog post of my own to have that, then linking to the source? Something like that. Or I can summarize news in images? Will have to see how it's actually implemented.
^ I get sent these press releases from Live Nation. Will post the good ones up here.
That sounds so.... complicated. Like, almost a coin toss to see if your post or comment will actually end up being allowed lol. I've always tried to mod reddit with a very laid back but fair approach.
I don't miss that place at all. It's cool to connect with other locals but reddit is such a hive of villainy and egos that it's really hard to find common ground simply because you live in the same area. So many other subs at least have something in common between users, a video game, a celebrity, a topic.... but a location? It's rough. That being said, being a mod in that place is not easy. For whatever reason it has a huge handful of super toxic users that will willingly do whatever they can to cause havoc, get themselves suspended, make a new account... rinse and repeat forever. It's super pathetic but a big part of life there. A lot of dudes in their 30s/40s/50s behaving like edgy teens.
I'm still a mod in r/Alberta but don't actively do very much these days to be honest. I don't look at modmail or take part in any direction or decision making, though I do occasionally handle some reports. It's also a sub that is very complicated and filled with political drama, which isn't really my thing. Lots of screeching.
I actually liked Texasnorth too lol though not for what he said (I disagree with pretty much all of his opinions) but with him you at least knew what you were getting. Always pretty straight forward. Not really hateful comments but just very passionate in his political beliefs. I did spot a new account of his in the wild and messaged him to confirm and say hi, after TN was suspended, but no idea where he might be today. I'd assume still on reddit somewhere. He once told me his name so I can confirm that if I do ever come across him again.
I've been on Lemmy for about 4 years now though pretty sporadically, and just on the OG Lemmy.ml (but I've heard not great things about the founders that run it). Always prefer a locally grown option if there is one. Lemmy.ca is super fast! Quite digging it so far.
While on the topic of subs and moderation, I have r/YYC on reddit, though I've kept it private. I recently had an idea for it but I'm not sure how it would play out in reality. With the latest reddit admin bullshit I don't expect to do much with it anymore. The app I use (reddit is fun) is going away and fuck that :( https://i.imgur.com/VTq97Zh.png - just was thinking of a different approach to a community.
No idea about parking myself, since I live down here and don't have a car.
I'm not sure what you mean by bullshit free, that's pretty ambiguous. What you consider bullshit might not be for someone else etc. That said I think I'm pretty good with moderation, in general. I helped mod r/Calgary for I think 7 years? before it became too much. So much toxicity and drama, it was making me miserable and wasting my time over the most trivial of things. I still use reddit but haven't used that sub since I left so I'm not even sure what it's like now. I still see it sometimes when people drop links to posts in my Discord server but that's about it.
For this place... I would personally roll with the same basic rules lemmy.ca has:
- no posting/commenting with hate/racism/bigotry
- no spamming
- no sharing private info like names/phone numbers/etc
- posts must be relevant to Calgary in some way
Don't give a shit to babysit people, they can just block someone if they don't want to communicate with them. It's cool when people agree to disagree. Not everyone will agree with everything else but as long as you can share your feelings in a civil way, good stuff.
This place seems small and new enough where deeper conversations could be possible. There will probably be one-offs where someone will refuse to stop being a huge toxic asshole to everyone else, but I imagine that would infrequent, especially with the lemmy.ca mini-application to even create an account.
Downtown can be so hit or miss. Friday and Saturday nights are pretty busy, but outside of that, it can definitely feel pretty empty. There's been a long tradition of most businesses down here closing at 6pm and a lot of people only coming downtown for work... so they go home.
I'm sure it'd be a different story of most of the buildings weren't empty office towers lol
