tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929537540404873123.post7761995013293052588..comments2023-10-04T06:59:20.803-06:00Comments on The Enlightened Savage: Rent Controls & PresumptionEnlightened Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17872131888278838737noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929537540404873123.post-7783175103581444762007-06-07T00:16:00.000-06:002007-06-07T00:16:00.000-06:00I'm clicking on your ads too!But I wanted to tell ...I'm clicking on your ads too!<BR/><BR/>But I wanted to tell you that the government has been busy - and as such Boardwalk reversed my rent increase! Turns out the new laws that the Premier and his team are putting into place only allows for one rent increase per every 365 days... so I am safe until Novemeber... ;-)<BR/><BR/>Cheers!Allie Wojtaszekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17288605727373925328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929537540404873123.post-85321233580174567272007-06-06T22:25:00.000-06:002007-06-06T22:25:00.000-06:00Yes another well thought out and well presented is...Yes another well thought out and well presented issues based post ES...you get better every week!<BR/><BR/>I once again see myself agreeing.<BR/><BR/>I clicked through on all your ads...hope it helps.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6929537540404873123.post-16742763595162333772007-06-06T13:50:00.000-06:002007-06-06T13:50:00.000-06:00Great post. Now if we could get you on part-time a...Great post. Now if we could get you on part-time as a staff writer for the Calgary Herald, we may be able to navigate out of the sheer lunacy that prevails in the current urban (read: Edmonton/Calgary) media.<BR/><BR/>Your point about the level to which the media coverage has fallen is spot on. As someone who has lived in both urban and rural locales, I am particularly peeved at the way certain newspaper columnists are getting away with what amounts to bigotry. The idea that a cabinet comprised with a larger proportion of so-called "rural" MLAs cannot possibly UNDERSTAND Calgary or Edmonton is ridiculous. For one, most rural people have more than a passing exposure to city life. As a young adult you generally move there to go to post-secondary training. And even if you don't pursue further education, you enter the urban centre any time you need to purchase anything but your regular groceries. I think it is a far more backable assertion to say that urban people have no concept of life outside a major city, with the lack of social supports (EMS, public transit) that accompanies it.<BR/><BR/>So what the media is really saying is that people who choose to live outside Edmonton or Calgary are dumb. Apparently, magically, your IQ drops if you leave the city limits of those two main population centres. As an aside, it is funny how Red Deer, Med Hat, Leth. etc are lumped in as rural, not too mention expensive bedroom communities such as Sherwood Park, St. Albert and Bragg Creek.<BR/><BR/>If I was to say that anyone of a certain race, sexual orientation, gender, etc. was less competent to be in cabinet, I would (rightly) be labelled a bigot of some sort. But it appears that discrimination by location is quite all right, thank you very much.<BR/><BR/>If I do decide at some point to move outside of Calgary or Edmonton, I better get my affairs in order, since I will presumably be seized with some sort of serious cognitive failure, and quickly degenerate into a rubber-boot wearing, straw-chomping luddite (a beard is apparently optional)<BR/><BR/>RE: cities. What is to understand? We are not talking Quantum Physics here. The City of ___ (insert name here) is big, getting bigger, and needs money to support growth. The fact that more money is available (it is growing every year, even before adding the "new" money for municipalities delivered by the Premier) appears to be lost on some. What is also missing, is the open acknowledgement, particularly by one big-city mayor, that the province totally or predominantly finances some infrastructure that primarily benefits the municipality, yet is not included in provincial-municipal transfers (hint: Deerfoot is Highway 2 folks).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com