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The fact that most of the "Political Scene" section (regarding current times) talks about left-wing politics seems to really be a bit of a stretch.

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Seems to be a bit of bias regarding newspapers. Will change.

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== "[[:Almadina (school)]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] ==

From what I understand, Albertans are generally pretty conservative.

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== Subarctic climate ==

:Well most are, but some aren't. There's no point in stereotyping. Remember that this is the province that elected the [[Social Credit]] party -- a pretty radical move. -- [[User:Derek Ross|Derek Ross]] | [[User talk:Derek Ross | Talk]] 06:55, 2004 Nov 19 (UTC)

The cutoff for a warm-summer humid continental climate (Dfb) is to have the warmest month be below 22 degrees. The cutoff for a no-dry-season subarctic climate (Dfc) to have 1-3 warm months above 10 degrees. Considering Calgary’s warmest month (July) is 16.5 degrees. How would that not make the whole city be in a warm-summer humid continental climate? (16.5 is closer to 22 than 10.) The source shown describing Calgary’s climate is of Springbank Airport, which is not the normal place that the city measures temperature, and if we use the Calgary International Airport, it shows the July temperature being 16.5 degrees. [[User:NameStuffs|NameStuffs]] ([[User talk:NameStuffs|talk]]) 18:58, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

:: Radical perhaps, but certainly not radical in the left wing sense. In fact the socreds are further right than the conservatives. In others words those who aren't conservative are [[reactionary]]. Scary thought. Although Calgary's mayor is a Liberal, or did he not get re-elected? [[User:Earl Andrew|Earl Andrew]] 18:24, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

:@[[User:NameStuffs|NameStuffs]] 16.5 being closer to 10 than to 22 is irrelevant; that's not really how the Köppen system works. As you said, the city needs to have at most 3 months over 10C to qualify for a subarctic climate. Calgary Int. Airport has 4 months over, so it's not Dfc. And it wouldn't matter if another station had a mean temp of 16.5: If it also has temps above 10C for 4 months, it's not subarctic. The second station in the article does in fact have 3 months, and so does qualify. [[User:Uness232|Uness232]] ([[User talk:Uness232|talk]]) 17:24, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

:: Dave Bronconnier is still the (Liberal) mayor. The city also elected a few Liberals to the Provincial assembly in the 2004 elections. Re the socreds, I thought that reactionaries wanted to change the system back to "the way it used to be". The socreds may well be right wing but I don't see how introduction of a basic income for every citizen fits into the reactionary category. -- [[User:Derek Ross|Derek Ross]] | [[User talk:Derek Ross | Talk]] 15:49, 2004 Nov 25 (UTC)

::Fair enough, but as a note, when the 1991-2020 temperature data for Springbank Airport is (released?), the climate classification may change also to a Dfb climate, if May and/or September become warmer than 10 degrees. [[User:NameStuffs|NameStuffs]] ([[User talk:NameStuffs|talk]]) 18:41, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

== 1991-2020 data ==

Where do they come up with the line that Calgary is Canada's richest city based on per capita income? I thought Oakville Ontario had the highest. Also, when stating that Calgary is the 3rd largest city in Canada, this is refering to the city proper which encompasses the entire urban area. It is a little misleading. Vancouver and Ottawa are smaller in population within the city proper, but when looked at from a continuous urban area, they are larger in population. 1:24, nov 24, 2004 BF

I am sorry because it may appear that I am constantly wondering about this page, but an issue I noticed is that according to Environment Canada at [https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/faq_e.html this page,] they are not publishing the climate data for Springbank Airport. [[User:NameStuffs|NameStuffs]] ([[User talk:NameStuffs|talk]]) 19:10, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

:This page refers to the city proper, and nothing else, so I don't think it is misleading. [[User:Earl Andrew|Earl Andrew]] 07:55, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

:Do not mind this; I will place this in the talk page for Springbank’s weatherbox instead. [[User:NameStuffs|NameStuffs]] ([[User talk:NameStuffs|talk]]) 22:18, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

I don't have the current list handy otherwise I'd do it myself, but the MLA list in the fact box needs updating as several of the folks there were defeated in the Nov. 22 election. [[User:23skidoo|23skidoo]] 03:53, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

== "Largest" ? ==

The word "Largest" is mentioned FOUR times in first paragraph alone. It comes off as insecure, sad, and desperate. I get it, local editors are proud of their city and maybe they are trying to "pump up its tires" a bit. But it is very excessive, especially for a city which really isn't that large. [[Special:Contributions/2607:FEA8:C264:100:34:921A:B61A:4E5|2607:FEA8:C264:100:34:921A:B61A:4E5]] ([[User talk:2607:FEA8:C264:100:34:921A:B61A:4E5|talk]]) 04:08, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Could someone please tell me where the data comes from interms of Calgary having the fastest growing population. When I checked the Statscan website, the latest available was for 2002/03 and it showed Oshawa, Ont. having the fastest growing population followed by Toronto. 3:34, Dec 11 2004 BF

:Agree sounds like it's written for a child we can do much better then making it sound like a pop culture icon ...the best the biggest the largest etc. we'll take a stab at this in the next few days. <span style="display:inline-flex;rotate:-15deg;color:darkblue">'''[[User:Moxy|Moxy]]'''</span><span style="display:inline-flex;rotate:15deg;color:darkblue">[[User talk:Moxy|🍁]]</span> 04:37, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

:I’m an editor who does live here, and I do agree with these changes, but I feel that the lead itself should be reworded, except I’m not sure what. Should we redo the entire lead? For example, [[Edmonton]] doesn’t even mention population until a few paragraphs in. [[User:NameStuffs|NameStuffs]] ([[User talk:NameStuffs|talk]]) 19:15, 6 March 2025 (UTC)