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Since April 22, hundreds of Calgarians have expressed their opinions about the proposed blanket zoning bylaw that would eliminate exclusionary zoning for single-family homes.
According to a City of Calgary press release, over the course of two and a half weeks, 736 speakers from 238 panels, presented themselves in council chambers or on the telephone, giving the thumbs up or down to the proposed bylaw change. In addition, the city received 6,101 written submissions.
The first phase of the public hearing portion of the April 22 meetin
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Read MoreThe British Columbia government has started a three-year pilot of the Secondary Suite Incentive Program (SSIP) to what it says will build more affordable rental homes.
BC Premier David Eby said there “is an urgent need for more homes British Columbians can actually afford, and many homeowners want to be part of the solution to the housing crisis.”
“This new incentive program makes it possible for homeowners to add a rental suite to their home, creating thousands of affordable rentals,” said Eby in a press release.
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Read MoreCanadian Armed Forces (CAF) members told pedestrians door-to-door wellness checks, or “door knocks” was an operation the forces conduct on an annual basis.
The military training operation CAF conducted with the cooperation of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) over the weekend, which was announced in the weeks leading up to it, has sparked a debate online.
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Read MoreScientists have created a jab to help protect against multiple coronaviruses, even the ones ‘we don’t even know about yet’, according to its creators.
Created by experts from the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Caltech in California, the project aims to ‘proactively’ build a vaccine before the next potential pandemic causing pathogen even becomes threat.
The experimental shot, which has so far only been tested on mice, works by training the immune system to recognise parts of many different coronaviruses, a family of viruses that includes Covid, SARS and MERS.
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Read MoreFrom near misses to a mid-air door blowout, there have been notable troubles for air travel. This week, Congress revealed a new, proposed five-year plan of action for the FAA. Lisa Fletcher reports it includes some safety upgrades.
When two or more aircraft are on the same part of a runway or taxiway simultaneously, it’s called an incursion, and it happened more than 1,700 times in the U.S. last year. Each incident a potential disaster — as happened in Tokyo, when a landing passenger plane hit a Japanese coast guard aircraft that had taxied onto the runway at the wrong time. Six people died.
The risks posed by incursions at the top of the list as Congress puts forth a new five-year plan for the Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA.
Currently, just 36 major airports have the latest safety systems to stop incursions. They will expand to many more airports, bringing real-time tracking of aircraft on the ground and automated alerts when two aircraft are likely to get too close.
Sharon Pinkerton is senior vice president at the organization Airlines for America, representing the major carriers. She says the FAA’s other urgent challenge is air traffic control.
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Read MoreTesla and X CEO Elon Musk expressed sheer disbelief over the federal Liberals’ recently tabled bill concerning hate speech that could retroactively punish citizens for speech they made years ago.
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Read MoreLoblaw chairman Galen Weston and the company’s new CEO are pushing back against critics who blame the grocery giant for soaring food prices, as a month-long boycott of the retailer gets underway.
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