There are creative ways to bridge the two sides of the MCC decision.

Our attention is on the electric utility, but it has a twin. In 2008 our natural gas division was valued at $800 million. By 2012 the bottom had fallen out.

Police are increasingly responding to calls unrelated to criminal code violations. We need a different tool.

The standard we should judge service delivery is not perfection, but our peers.

Stop asking staff to recommend options.

Alberta’s municipal governance model requires especially high level teamwork skills.

I didn’t appreciate the difficulty of working as a team until I sat down in one of the nine council chairs. 

A citizen is not a subject, not a spectator, but someone responsible for self-government.

Connecting property taxes to servicing costs unlocks economic and residential development in sustainable ways.

Business competitiveness depends on investment attraction. Separating taxes on land value from improvement values removes the disincentive to investment.