Marathon rezoning meeting and transit troubles among Calgary City Hall's biggest stories of 2024
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Calgary’s city council had a busy year in 2024, contending with backlash over bag fees, a marathon debate about city-wide rezoning, broken water mains and a stop-and-go process with the Green Line LRT project.
Just two weeks into the new year, Calgary council faced its first hurdle of 2024: backlash over bag fees.
The city's single-use items bylaw went into effect on Jan. 16 and the repeal process for the contentious bylaw started by the end of the month.
"I think it's ridiculous," Ward 13 Coun. Dan McLean said at the time. "I doubt they're going to start lowering the price of Big Macs if they're not giving you your bags."
The bag fee was officially tossed later in the year, thus starting another busy year at City Hall.
The new event centre—named Scotia Place – officially broke ground and had its development permit approved by the planning commission; the expanded BMO Centre officially opened up just before the Calgary Stampede.
Spring at city hall was then dominated by Calgary's longest-ever public hearing on proposed city-wide rezoning. Over a span of about 100 hours, 736 people spoke to council on the issue. Nearly 70 per cent of the people who spoke were against blanket rezoning, city officials said.
A 47-unit building hasn't had hot water for nearly two months, and the heat is out too, forcing the city to intervene.
The Ottawa Paramedic Service says four adult women were taken to hospital following a fire that happened in a highrise on Ramsey Crescent, in the west end of Ottawa, in the early hours of Friday morning.
Mounties on Vancouver Island say a 50-year-old motorist who tried to apprehend a suspected impaired driver on New Year's Eve, was, in fact, impaired and was issued a 90-day driving prohibition by police.
Saskatchewan RCMP says it is investigating the death of a 30-year-old woman on Piapot First Nation as suspicious in nature.
Rural firehalls surrounding Saskatoon are having to deal with escalating thefts that could put rescue efforts in jeopardy.
There is a new offer to buy and preserve the Lemay Forest.
The London Knights ran up the score against the Niagara IceDogs Friday night at Canada Life Place, earning a 9-4 win.
A black Ford Mustang had lost control while traveling north along Bayview, crashing into cement pillars near the stores loading dock.
A special meeting of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's national Liberal caucus has been called for next Wednesday, sources say.
An American citizen convicted of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on Capitol Hill and dodging jail time in Whistler may just be the start of an asylum-seeking rush, according to a prominent legal expert.
Several areas in midwestern Ontario have had a snow squall watch upgraded to a snow squall warning.