Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek met with representatives from the Alberta government Friday, just days after councillors voted to start the process to 'wind down' the $6.2 billion Green Line and transfer the cost and risk to the provincial government.
Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek waves to the crowds as she rides a horse during the Calgary Stampede parade in Calgary, Friday, July 5, 2024. Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek met with representatives from the Alberta government Friday, just days after councillors voted to start the process to 'wind down' the $6.2 billion Green Line and transfer the cost and risk to the provincial government.
"We are actually commissioning a new alignment that will take place within the next few months, that will stretch, hopefully, as far south as the hospital and southeast part of Calgary to downtown, and then obviously connect into the red and blue," he said.
In July, Calgary councillors approved an updated plan for the first phase of the Green Line, which was shorter and costlier than originally proposed. Phase 1 of the project was supposed to cost $5.5 billion for an 18-kilometre stretch from Eau Claire to Shepard in the Southeast. "We were surprised and disappointed by the decision by the Government of Alberta to withdraw their funding from the Green Line, which will impact thousands of jobs," the statement reads.
"We have to think about, not just the financial risk of waiting and pausing, but the reputational risk. We also have about a thousand people employed on this project, so what does that mean for those employees?" To Erin Tridle, it felt as though the universe paved the way for her to meet the love of her life years before their actual meeting.The 14-year-old suspect in a shooting at a Georgia high school that killed four people and his father will both stay in custody following back-to-back court hearings Friday morning where their lawyers declined to seek bail.Canada Post is proposing an increase to regulated postage rates next year, bringing the price of most stamps up by 25 cents to $1.24.
Alberta's unemployment rate soared to 7.7 per cent in August, while Edmonton's jobless rate climbed to the second-highest of any Canadian city.Manslaughter charges have been laid against three people in connection to the death of a B.C. inmate after an assault at the province's only maximum security prison last year.A suspicious package that prompted a major police response in downtown Vancouver Thursday was not an explosive device, authorities have confirmed.
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