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🛩️ Billionaire Flames owners will pocket 100% of the estimated >$100M per year in arena revenues.
Under the terms of the agreement, the billionaire Flames owners will collect 100% of arena operating revenues, estimated to be north of $100M annually based on financial info from a 2024 Forbes report.
Under the terms of the agreement, the billionaire Flames owners will collect 100% of arena operating revenues, estimated to be north of $100M annually based on financial info from a 2024 Forbes report.
April 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
🛩️ Billionaire Flames owners will pocket 100% of the estimated >$100M per year in arena revenues.
Under the terms of the agreement, the billionaire Flames owners will collect 100% of arena operating revenues, estimated to be north of $100M annually based on financial info from a 2024 Forbes report.
Under the terms of the agreement, the billionaire Flames owners will collect 100% of arena operating revenues, estimated to be north of $100M annually based on financial info from a 2024 Forbes report.
🤑 While the Sharp and the City are telling Calgarians that the Flames owners will contribute $356-million (38%) towards the arena over the course of the 35-year agreement, they will actually only be contributing as little as $170-million (18%).
April 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
🤑 While the Sharp and the City are telling Calgarians that the Flames owners will contribute $356-million (38%) towards the arena over the course of the 35-year agreement, they will actually only be contributing as little as $170-million (18%).
💸 The arena deal even worse for taxpayers than advertised.
Just when it seemed like you couldn’t have imagined a worse deal than the one announced in April 2023, that socialized the costs on the backs of taxpayers and privatized the profits billionaires, Sonya Sharp found a way.
Just when it seemed like you couldn’t have imagined a worse deal than the one announced in April 2023, that socialized the costs on the backs of taxpayers and privatized the profits billionaires, Sonya Sharp found a way.
April 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
💸 The arena deal even worse for taxpayers than advertised.
Just when it seemed like you couldn’t have imagined a worse deal than the one announced in April 2023, that socialized the costs on the backs of taxpayers and privatized the profits billionaires, Sonya Sharp found a way.
Just when it seemed like you couldn’t have imagined a worse deal than the one announced in April 2023, that socialized the costs on the backs of taxpayers and privatized the profits billionaires, Sonya Sharp found a way.
🗑️TAKE ACTION: Tell Danielle Smith to ditch her Trump sympathizer transportation minister waging economic war on Calgary's downtown Green Line, businesses and taxpayers.
#GreenLineYYC
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February 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
🗑️TAKE ACTION: Tell Danielle Smith to ditch her Trump sympathizer transportation minister waging economic war on Calgary's downtown Green Line, businesses and taxpayers.
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🤠 Calgarians are united in opposition to 'reckless' "Dreeshen Drawing" elevated alignment through Beltline and downtown.
Residents, businesses small and large, real estate and property developers are united in opposing the disastrous "Dreeshen Drawing" plan.
Residents, businesses small and large, real estate and property developers are united in opposing the disastrous "Dreeshen Drawing" plan.
January 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
🤠 Calgarians are united in opposition to 'reckless' "Dreeshen Drawing" elevated alignment through Beltline and downtown.
Residents, businesses small and large, real estate and property developers are united in opposing the disastrous "Dreeshen Drawing" plan.
Residents, businesses small and large, real estate and property developers are united in opposing the disastrous "Dreeshen Drawing" plan.
🤑The Province is backing an underground arena and coal mine for foreign billionaires, but refuses to fund efficient underground public transit for Calgarians.
January 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
🤑The Province is backing an underground arena and coal mine for foreign billionaires, but refuses to fund efficient underground public transit for Calgarians.
🎪 This capitulation foreshadows the potential future under a UCP-controlled city council led by the UCP-controlled Billionaires First municipal political party.
Electing an independent local gov in the Oct 2025 election will be crucial to saving our public funds from being diverted to billionaires.
Electing an independent local gov in the Oct 2025 election will be crucial to saving our public funds from being diverted to billionaires.
January 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
🎪 This capitulation foreshadows the potential future under a UCP-controlled city council led by the UCP-controlled Billionaires First municipal political party.
Electing an independent local gov in the Oct 2025 election will be crucial to saving our public funds from being diverted to billionaires.
Electing an independent local gov in the Oct 2025 election will be crucial to saving our public funds from being diverted to billionaires.
💰The City of Calgary will be legally liable for $100's of millions in downtown property value impacts.
The City estimated the cost of these liabilities could fall in the order of $100's of millions of dollars.
The City estimated the cost of these liabilities could fall in the order of $100's of millions of dollars.
January 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
💰The City of Calgary will be legally liable for $100's of millions in downtown property value impacts.
The City estimated the cost of these liabilities could fall in the order of $100's of millions of dollars.
The City estimated the cost of these liabilities could fall in the order of $100's of millions of dollars.
💸 The disastrous "Dreeshen Drawing" plan risks bankrupting the City of Calgary and putting our local government and essential services at greater risk of further provincial interference.
January 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
💸 The disastrous "Dreeshen Drawing" plan risks bankrupting the City of Calgary and putting our local government and essential services at greater risk of further provincial interference.
✅ Thank you to the Mayor and 5 councillors who voted against the Province's disastrous "Dreeshen Drawing" downtown alignment.
Shout out for standing Calgarian's ground against the Provincial Government's riskier, more expensive plan.
Shout out for standing Calgarian's ground against the Provincial Government's riskier, more expensive plan.
January 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
✅ Thank you to the Mayor and 5 councillors who voted against the Province's disastrous "Dreeshen Drawing" downtown alignment.
Shout out for standing Calgarian's ground against the Provincial Government's riskier, more expensive plan.
Shout out for standing Calgarian's ground against the Provincial Government's riskier, more expensive plan.
🤮Councillor Sonya Sharp and her UCP-controlled Billionaires First municipal political party led a block of city councillors in a capitulation to the Provincial Government's 'reckless' elevated Green Line alignment through the Beltline and Downtown.
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January 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
🤮Councillor Sonya Sharp and her UCP-controlled Billionaires First municipal political party led a block of city councillors in a capitulation to the Provincial Government's 'reckless' elevated Green Line alignment through the Beltline and Downtown.
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For those trying to understand the incompetence of the UCP Government here's the gist of what happened today:
The Province told City Council to vote for the riskier, more expensive $7.5-billion "Dreeshen Drawing" or lose $3-billion in provincial and federal funding.
The Province told City Council to vote for the riskier, more expensive $7.5-billion "Dreeshen Drawing" or lose $3-billion in provincial and federal funding.
January 29, 2025 at 4:57 AM
For those trying to understand the incompetence of the UCP Government here's the gist of what happened today:
The Province told City Council to vote for the riskier, more expensive $7.5-billion "Dreeshen Drawing" or lose $3-billion in provincial and federal funding.
The Province told City Council to vote for the riskier, more expensive $7.5-billion "Dreeshen Drawing" or lose $3-billion in provincial and federal funding.
🔫Calgary's real estate and development industry has put the finishing bullet in the disastrous Dreeshen-Smith elevated Green Line alignment:
📄"We feel it would be reckless to support the proposed elevated solution in the Beltline and Downtown"
❌Nobody supports the Dreeshen doodle line.
📄"We feel it would be reckless to support the proposed elevated solution in the Beltline and Downtown"
❌Nobody supports the Dreeshen doodle line.
January 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🔫Calgary's real estate and development industry has put the finishing bullet in the disastrous Dreeshen-Smith elevated Green Line alignment:
📄"We feel it would be reckless to support the proposed elevated solution in the Beltline and Downtown"
❌Nobody supports the Dreeshen doodle line.
📄"We feel it would be reckless to support the proposed elevated solution in the Beltline and Downtown"
❌Nobody supports the Dreeshen doodle line.
💩 Even the Banff Passenger Rail boosters "Friends of CABR" are implying that Devin Dreeshen shat the bed with his crayon map Green Line proposal for elevated alignment through Downtown and Beltline.
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December 20, 2024 at 8:30 PM
💩 Even the Banff Passenger Rail boosters "Friends of CABR" are implying that Devin Dreeshen shat the bed with his crayon map Green Line proposal for elevated alignment through Downtown and Beltline.
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🖍️Devin Dreeshen declared his disastrous crayon drawing the "The best Green Line alignment anyone could develop".
🤡 So when he finally released the AECOM report, why did he redact the "PREFERRED DOWNTOWN OPTION" section unless maybe it says something other than what he's been telling Calgarians?
🤡 So when he finally released the AECOM report, why did he redact the "PREFERRED DOWNTOWN OPTION" section unless maybe it says something other than what he's been telling Calgarians?
December 19, 2024 at 2:40 AM
🖍️Devin Dreeshen declared his disastrous crayon drawing the "The best Green Line alignment anyone could develop".
🤡 So when he finally released the AECOM report, why did he redact the "PREFERRED DOWNTOWN OPTION" section unless maybe it says something other than what he's been telling Calgarians?
🤡 So when he finally released the AECOM report, why did he redact the "PREFERRED DOWNTOWN OPTION" section unless maybe it says something other than what he's been telling Calgarians?
🤠Thanks to everyone who helped call out this total garbage from the province.
🥊LET'S KEEP FIGHTING FOR THE GREEN LINE!
If funding a new underground arena for billionaires was acceptable, Danielle Smith should have no issues funding underground public transit for Calgarians.
🥊LET'S KEEP FIGHTING FOR THE GREEN LINE!
If funding a new underground arena for billionaires was acceptable, Danielle Smith should have no issues funding underground public transit for Calgarians.
December 18, 2024 at 11:41 PM
🤠Thanks to everyone who helped call out this total garbage from the province.
🥊LET'S KEEP FIGHTING FOR THE GREEN LINE!
If funding a new underground arena for billionaires was acceptable, Danielle Smith should have no issues funding underground public transit for Calgarians.
🥊LET'S KEEP FIGHTING FOR THE GREEN LINE!
If funding a new underground arena for billionaires was acceptable, Danielle Smith should have no issues funding underground public transit for Calgarians.
🥳Thanks to citizen push back, Devin Dreeshen has finally released the "confidential" AECOM report - but it's dead on arrival given that we now know it's an even more costly + risky.
Of note, the report fails to contemplate the proposed elevated Banff Passenger Rail alignment.
Of note, the report fails to contemplate the proposed elevated Banff Passenger Rail alignment.
December 18, 2024 at 11:41 PM
🥳Thanks to citizen push back, Devin Dreeshen has finally released the "confidential" AECOM report - but it's dead on arrival given that we now know it's an even more costly + risky.
Of note, the report fails to contemplate the proposed elevated Banff Passenger Rail alignment.
Of note, the report fails to contemplate the proposed elevated Banff Passenger Rail alignment.
😱IT GETS WORSE. BNA missed the proposed elevated Banff Passenger Line along CPKC tracks. See revised rendering below.
🤔Maybe one of these should be buried underground?
🤔Maybe one of these should be buried underground?
December 18, 2024 at 7:11 PM
😱IT GETS WORSE. BNA missed the proposed elevated Banff Passenger Line along CPKC tracks. See revised rendering below.
🤔Maybe one of these should be buried underground?
🤔Maybe one of these should be buried underground?
📋GREEN LINE REPORT CARD⭐️
With all the info and misinformation flying around out there, we decided to set the record straight.
The plans put forward by the City of Calgary are the ONLY viable options. Anything else is just a sideshow distraction🤡🎪.
🥋CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER 🥊
With all the info and misinformation flying around out there, we decided to set the record straight.
The plans put forward by the City of Calgary are the ONLY viable options. Anything else is just a sideshow distraction🤡🎪.
🥋CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER 🥊
December 18, 2024 at 6:27 PM
📋GREEN LINE REPORT CARD⭐️
With all the info and misinformation flying around out there, we decided to set the record straight.
The plans put forward by the City of Calgary are the ONLY viable options. Anything else is just a sideshow distraction🤡🎪.
🥋CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER 🥊
With all the info and misinformation flying around out there, we decided to set the record straight.
The plans put forward by the City of Calgary are the ONLY viable options. Anything else is just a sideshow distraction🤡🎪.
🥋CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER 🥊
🤑Underground arena for billionaires, but no underground public transit for the rest of us.
The new arena is being constructed underground with ice level 37-ft below street level (left). Meanwhile the Province refuses to fund underground Green Line construction across the street.
The new arena is being constructed underground with ice level 37-ft below street level (left). Meanwhile the Province refuses to fund underground Green Line construction across the street.
December 18, 2024 at 3:07 PM
🤑Underground arena for billionaires, but no underground public transit for the rest of us.
The new arena is being constructed underground with ice level 37-ft below street level (left). Meanwhile the Province refuses to fund underground Green Line construction across the street.
The new arena is being constructed underground with ice level 37-ft below street level (left). Meanwhile the Province refuses to fund underground Green Line construction across the street.
🤐 Councillors Sharp, McLean, Chu, Chabot, Wong voted unsuccessfully to gag City Admin from sharing gap in cost analysis with the public.
December 18, 2024 at 3:07 PM
🤐 Councillors Sharp, McLean, Chu, Chabot, Wong voted unsuccessfully to gag City Admin from sharing gap in cost analysis with the public.
🔎City Administration has identified $1.3-billion in costs and risks that were conveniently missed in Devin Dreeshen's infamous crayon map report that he is closely guarding from public release.
December 18, 2024 at 3:07 PM
🔎City Administration has identified $1.3-billion in costs and risks that were conveniently missed in Devin Dreeshen's infamous crayon map report that he is closely guarding from public release.
Is the Alberta Government sharing the secret AEMCOM report with private rail to Banff boosters?
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December 17, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Is the Alberta Government sharing the secret AEMCOM report with private rail to Banff boosters?
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What good is the AEMCOM report if it excludes a long list of things that could potentially wildly increase the cost of the "cheaper" elevated Green Line option?
-Potential litigation;
-Termination of contracts;
-Utility re-re-locations;
-Stranded / sunk costs
-Delays
🍺 It's amateur hour again.
-Potential litigation;
-Termination of contracts;
-Utility re-re-locations;
-Stranded / sunk costs
-Delays
🍺 It's amateur hour again.
December 16, 2024 at 5:29 PM
What good is the AEMCOM report if it excludes a long list of things that could potentially wildly increase the cost of the "cheaper" elevated Green Line option?
-Potential litigation;
-Termination of contracts;
-Utility re-re-locations;
-Stranded / sunk costs
-Delays
🍺 It's amateur hour again.
-Potential litigation;
-Termination of contracts;
-Utility re-re-locations;
-Stranded / sunk costs
-Delays
🍺 It's amateur hour again.
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1) 10 Ave and 4 St SE - Looking west.
2) 10 Ave and 1 St SW - Looking southwest at new Truman First and Tenth development.
1) 10 Ave and 4 St SE - Looking west.
2) 10 Ave and 1 St SW - Looking southwest at new Truman First and Tenth development.
December 16, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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1) 10 Ave and 4 St SE - Looking west.
2) 10 Ave and 1 St SW - Looking southwest at new Truman First and Tenth development.
1) 10 Ave and 4 St SE - Looking west.
2) 10 Ave and 1 St SW - Looking southwest at new Truman First and Tenth development.