Your City Hall votes are getting weird, Calgary
Howdy, Calgary. Cassidy Redcloud here, coming to you from the MiTL Sports Desk, checking in on what’s cookin' down at City Hall. For real though, this week's data from the Civic Intelligence Monitor, specifically those recent Council votes from March 10, 2026, are a bit of a head-scratcher.
What’s the Council Hiding?
We've got four motions that passed with unanimous "yes" votes to move into closed meetings or hold "confidential attachments" as confidential. But then, you've got Councillor Landon Johnston voting "no" on two of those motions, and still, they passed. We're talking about Report C2026-0240 and discussions held confidential pursuant to Section 29 (Advice from officials) of the Access to Information Act. Now, I get that some things need to be discussed behind closed doors, but when you have councillors voting *against* holding discussions confidential, it sure makes you wonder what kind of advice they're getting, or what information they're trying to cap from the public. This is Calgary – we've seen the boom, we've seen the bust, and we showed up anyway, so we deserve to know what's going on.
On the development front, the Civic Intelligence Monitor data, collected on April 1, 2026, at 12:03:08.296Z, shows 23 commercial/new construction permits were issued in Calgary this week. That's a steady hum, meaning the city isn't hitting a dry well on new projects, which is good to see. But those confidential votes? That’s the real story to watch. We’ll keep an eye on what spills out from those closed meetings and how it impacts us on the ground.
Cassidy Redcloud, MiTL Sports Desk.
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