Wrote this a year ago:

#humanrights #housing #humanity #human

@dragonfrog

That's what I was thinking too, about Knack. I wish he could stand up like he used to, but I still don't see any better candidate for mayor.

I remember Ashley Salvador now, I hope Ward Metis takes her, and Michael Janz in Ward Papastew.

I believe in my ward, Sipiwiyiniwak, that Giselle General might be the best choice? At least she advocates for public transit as she should, being a former Board Chair of the Edmonton Transit Service Advisory Board.

There are a few people I believe we can count on, but I feel so disheartened when I see nothing but Better Edmonton (Tim Cartmell Party) and PACE party candidates flexing their deep pockets everywhere. Which is EXACTLY what Danielle Smith wanted when she interfered in our municipal elections, is to control our cities through financial backers.

#yeg #abpoli

Are there any city council and mayoral candidates in Edmonton who aren't going to tear up bike lanes or stop them from being built?

EDIT: Maybe Michael Janz? But I'm not in ward papastew.

I am so beyond frustrated by the attacks on active transportation. I can't speak out about it, or I become the target of attacks. I know the politicians are walking a fine line and trying to avoid all the outrage and hate-mongering, but is there ANYBODY (who is not a part of a vulnerable, marginalized group) who has a backbone to stand up to it? I'm crying all the time inside at this bleak future for Edmonton, and all the stress of the constant discrimination against me.

I will never hear my voice over all the angry white men screaming that "nobody wants" what I need to survive. But what do I know, I'm just a blue haired idiot on a bike who's too stupid to hold a real job (despite having a real job, professional credentials, and black hair).

Thanks to the UCP's party politics, the city is full of big-money campaigns and my neighborhood is saturated with Tim Cartmell's party candidates. As well as PACE of course, which should be labeled a hate group (literally just find any of their arguments on social media). The most frustrating thing is their pamphlets are claiming to create an "open and inclusive" city, by openly waging war on Indigenous populations to make white people feel "safe and secure from crime", and actively advocating the deaths of those who use active transportation because "Edmonton is car dependent, and anybody who isn't doesn't deserve security of life". Always insisting that cyclists are a "tax burden", just like how they claim immigrants don't pay taxes either. Open and inclusive for the ruling class; there is nothing more hateful than using those words, "open and inclusive", in that context.

EDIT: Andrew Knack I used to consider an ally, but this is what the (granted, very biased) Juno article claims: "Andrew Knack said bike lanes should only move forward if context-sensitive, such as multi-use trails that do not disrupt traffic", which sounds like it's taken straight out of the Doug Ford/Devin Dreeshen handbook of political rhetoric. Why is there only one type of viable "traffic" to protect? The rest of us are chopped liver? Or that's just what we look like after we get run over by the "protected traffic"? Vulnerable road users need protection.

https://www.junonews.com/p/new-edmonton-bike-lanes-confirmed

#yegbike #abpoli #yeg #urbanism #biketooter