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"Drawing the city, or places in the city, just made me love it more somehow." A Q&A with Calgary cartoonist and author Teresa Wong, who has created a new piece of artwork specifically for The Sprawl's Pop-Up Press. Join us on June 14!
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CJF Dr. Eric Jackman Award (Small) Finalist Spotlight: The @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social was shortlisted for “Calgary 2025 Election Edition”. The team livestreamed candidate forums, organized debates, built an online candidate tracker w/ independently-written bios & created printed election guides. /1
the CTrain free fare zone is one of the nicest things we have in Calgary.
The numbers from the recent survey are pretty clear: people use it, they like it, and they want it to be expanded.
City Hall should just listen to what people want.📣
Putting a new Curious Calgary zine into my neighbourhood zine box! This one is about the @ucalgary.bsky.social arch, which did not start life as an arch! Take a look at the comic at @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social to learn the arch's origin story.
Hey, #yyc's Refinery Park is in the news!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO3w...
I learned about Refinery Park when I wrote a comic strip about it for @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social in 2024. You can read the comic here:
www.sprawlcalgary.com/calgary-zine...
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In the 1940s, Calgary’s streetcar equipment languished while auto companies lobbied city hall to scrap it and replace streetcars with motor buses. #yyccc
HUGE bike bus turnout this morning for our Year-end Coffee & Conversation and Bike Bus at KGS. I'm still trying to get a final count, but it was close to 100! WAY TO GO, #yycbike & thank you to @mykeatkinson.bsky.social @jeromyyyc.bsky.social and @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social for joining us!
Good news! The Sprawl is nominated for 7 Alberta Magazine Awards. For our municipal election coverage, our tree canopy coverage (ha!) and our Pop-Up Press. www.sprawlcalgary.com/alberta-maga...
I love that @calgarytransit.com reads @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social! Subscribe, too! That tells me CT have the capability & capacity to produce a better evaluation & report on the free fare zone than they did. To omit the environmental impact of eliminating the free fare zone was shoddy analysis. 2/
It is perhaps for the best that the Rainbow Bridge for pedestrians and presumably their pets was retired in the 80s but I also had no idea it is what is now the U of C arch! Thanks @klaszus.bsky.social for another great @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social CTrain story!
Calgary Transit is coming out strong against the CTrain free fare zone to improve "overall perceptions of safety on transit"—but is obscuring why we got it in the first place. We dug into it. #yyccc
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'It was the ultimate leveller—a club where no one was excluded.'
