Wyness in the Headlines
2024
December
November
- Braid: Who's the boss at Calgary City Hall? Council budget debate shows bureaucracy in charge
- 'Let's fix the damn roads': As budget debate continues, council draws on reserves to keep tax increase at 3.6 per cent
- 'Alleviating the burden on Calgarians'; Conservative-leaning councillors offer proposals for budget savings
- Some Calgary councillors call for more cuts to lower property tax increase
- 5 Calgary councillors call for budget amendments to freeze property taxes
- Calgary city council quintet pushes to pare 2025 property tax hike
- Conservative-leaning councillors call for 20+ amendments to find budget savings
- 'Not enough to make ends meet': Minimum wage falls nearly $10 short of living wage in Calgary
- 'Very frustrated:' Report on Calgary water feeder main break raises questions of readiness
- Calgary council members ‘not impressed’ with budget docs delay
- Calgary Event Centre project lacks proper documentation on risks, quality and close out: City auditor
- Minimum wage falls nearly $10 short of Calgary's living wage
- Group of Calgary city councillors to propose amendments to cut budget spending
October
- Calgary council takes no position on supervised consumption site at Sheldon Chumir
- Concerns at Calgary city hall over funding for police shooting range
- City's purchase of electric buses faces more delay, smaller numbers
September
- Calgary residents saved 9 billion litres during water restrictions
- 'Critical' east-west connector in north Calgary set to open next week
- Calgary looking at potential EV bus impact on city road maintenance
August
July
- Calgary feeder main break to cost ‘tens of millions’: city official
- Repair bill for water feeder main to run into the 'tens of millions'
- Calgary distribution network losing billions of litres of water a year
- City councillors weigh in on water feeder main uncertainties
- Bell: Calgary city hall water pipe probe, still looks like a gong show
- Calgary could ease into Stage 1 outdoor water restrictions next week
- Calgary feeder main break to cost ‘tens of millions’: city official
June
- Committee endorses amendments to incentivize industrial development
- Bell: City of Calgary water pipe probe, don't count on the whole truth
- Councillors question administration over Calgary water main break cause, cost
- Bell: City of Calgary says nothing of busted crisis-causing water pipe
April
- Calgary Fire Department to pilot blue lights on fire engines
- Calgary Fire Department to pilot blue lights on engines
March
- Why Calgary's bylaw on single-use items is headed back to city hall
- Equal Voice Calgary’s model councils approve public transit safety, housing strategy
January
- Braid: Sane Six of city council get no credit for fighting crazy taxes
- Tax rebate could be coming to Calgary homeowners
- Calgary city council approves updated off-site levies bylaw
- Calgary councillors to attempt a clawback of tax shift increase, with potential rebate
- The push is on to sack Calgary’s single-use items bylaw
- Calgary councillor leads push to repeal single-use items bylaw
- Amid public backlash, city's single-use bylaw could be back in the crosshairs
- Councillors say they feel safe at Calgary city hall, as security briefing prepped
- Councillors gear up for debate on budget cuts for property tax rebate
- Bell: Scrap Calgary's bag bylaw, Gondek and her allies are on the run
- Calgary begins process to repeal single-use items bylaw
- Calgary begins process to repeal single-use bylaw
- Calgary council starts process to repeal single-use items bylaw
- Calgary's single-use bylaw challenged by committee
- UPDATED: Calgary city council votes to begin repeal of single-use bylaw
- Why Calgary's single-use items bylaw is being reconsidered
- The process to repeal Calgary's single-use items bylaw has kicked off
- Calgary’s single-use bylaw faces possible repeal after vote
- Calgary city council approves repeal process for single-use items bylaw
- Calgary’s single-use items bylaw to go through repeal process
- Calgary councillors vote to scrap single-use items bylaw
- Bell: Calgarians win big, Gondek loses, council to axe bogus bag bylaw
2023
December
- Citing its pro-Israel theme, Gondek pulls out hall Menorah lighting
- Mayor holds firm on not attending Hanukkah event
- Gondek not backing down on decision to opt out of menorah lighting
- ‘The celebration of Hanukkah has and always will be directly and inextricably linked to Israel’: Menorah lighting goes ahead at Calgary city hall
- About 500 people attend menorah lighting at Calgary Municipal Building
- Shed fire victims mourned, unhoused share glimpse of life in suburbs
- Three people found dead after shed fire in Calgary Lowe’s parking lot
- People were seen living in shed 'for the past month' in Calgary before fatal blaze: neighbour
- 3 found dead after Calgary shed fire in Crowfoot Crossing
- Victims of Calgary shed fire remembered in vigil
- Three people die in a northwest Calgary shed fire
- Calgary Fire Department sees ‘explosive’ growth in calls in 2023
November
- Calgary city council passes budget increases to address safety, housing, infrastructure
- Calgary city council votes to shift portion of tax burden from businesses to homeowners
- Calgary city council passes budget increases to address safety, housing, infrastructure
- Police chief says more officers expected on Calgary streets next year
- Calgary city council votes to shift portion of tax burden from businesses to homeowners
Note: Councillor Wyness voted against the 2023 Calgary Budget Adjustments. View her full voting record here.
October
September
June
- Calgary parking permit program changes put off until December
- Auditor calls for changes to City of Calgary's internal code of conduct policies
- Auditor finds weaknesses in Calgary's code of conduct policy
May
- Calgary reinstates Canada Day fireworks
- Canada Day fireworks back on in Calgary as city hall reverses course amid public outcry
- Calgary's Canada Day fireworks back on as city hall reverses course amid public outcry
- Canada Day fireworks return after Calgary city hall reverses course
- Canada Day fireworks back on after Calgary city hall reverses course
- Calgary to add fireworks back into Canada Day celebrations
- BOOM!: Calgary city councillors submit motion to bring Canada Day fireworks back
- Concern grows as graphic flyers resurface in Airdrie
- City report questions use of turnstiles for safety on Calgary Transit
- Council raises questions about feasibility of a closed transit system
- City committee approves more cash for Calgary Transit safety
- Calgary to require safeguards for images of fetuses on flyers
- Closed system not a fix for Calgary Transit's safety issues, says report
- A study of Calgary Transit says no to closed system
- Calgary adds restrictions on anti-abortion flyers
- New rules for anti-abortion flyers in Calgary
- Flyers showing graphic images of fetuses subject to new safeguards
- Graphic anti-abortion flyers sent to Calgary homes must now come with warning
- Graphic anti-abortion images must be concealed, says Calgary
- Graphic images delivered to Calgary doorsteps will now have to be concealed, carry warning
- Calgary passed its first Anti-Racism Strategic Plan. Now what?
- City report says closed transit system would not improve safety
April
- Calgary to consider bylaw regarding graphic anti-abortion flyers
- Council readies bylaw requiring covers for anti-abortion flyers
- Proposed Calgary bylaw would require graphic images of fetuses be enveloped
- Graphic anti-abortion flyers in Calgary could get cover, warning and return address
- Calgary officials support CUTA transit safety recommendations to curb violence
- Violence against Calgary Transit drivers needs to be addressed: ATU
March
- Bikes on LRT critical for the success of frequency-based transit, says councillor
- Councillor hoping for rules around foxtail barley control in Calgary
- Calgary women in power empower young leaders
- Calgary teenage girls sample the political life
- Group considers legal challenge to Calgary’s protest bylaw
- Calgary's split city hall wrestles with drag storytime bylaw
- Calgary city council passes bylaw that puts distance between protestors, city facilities
- Calgary council passes bylaw to crack down on anti-drag protests
- Calgary passes 'Safe and Inclusive Access' bylaw
- 'Allyship in action': Advocate says proposed bylaw will help protect 2SLGBTQIA+ Calgarians
- Calgary’s women councillors reflect on International Women’s Day
February
- Community impact drives award-winning health researcher
- Calgary Police take part in 2023 Polar Plunge supporting Special Olympics Alberta
January
2022
December
- Calgary shops preparing to do business without single-use plastics
- Some suburban councillors concerned with Calgary Transit's plan for frequent-service network
November
- Brawl at CTrain station spurs some city councillors to call for access changes
- Taxes, services up for debate as council begins deliberations on four-year budget
- Calgary city council to send Chu’s police commission review to province
- City council opposed to anti-abortion flyer photos; Unanimous vote to demand graphic images be covered in any mail handouts
- City hall to draft bylaw restricting how graphic anti-abortion flyers are distributed in Calgary
- Calgary city council approves bolstering restrictions on graphic door-to-door pamphlets
- Sage Hill residents concerned with impacts of proposed condo development
October
- Audit report says 15% of city buildings in poor or critical condition
- Funding to improve Calgary firefighter response not expected until 2025, document reveals
September
- Single-use plastics reduction strategy gets the green light
- Millions of items are in the city's waste and recycling streams, committee members heard.
- Reduction of single-use items supported, but businesses cool to mandatory bag fee
- City council committee approves changes to single-use plastics bylaw
- New single-use product regulations could be on their way for Calgary
- Committee endorses Calgary single-use plastics reduction strategy and bylaw
- Calgary Eyeopener on Anti-abortion pamphlets
- City eyes increasing fees on bags; 'Right direction to go' in effort to reduce single-use items: councillor
- Calgary city councillor to table motion regarding anti-abortion images on door-to-door pamphlets
- City councillor seeks to restrict distribution of graphic anti-abortion flyers
- Proposed Calgary bylaw to restrict graphic images on anti-abortion flyers
- City looks to increase shopping bag fees and reduce single-use items
- ‘Unacceptable’: Councillor wants pro-life flyers concealed, warning attached
- Council calls for crackdown on graphic anti-abortion pamphlets
- 'Good policy': City council to discuss introducing business licences for child-care providers
July
- Bell: Calgary city council lets Carra off the hook
- Carra investigation will not be forwarded to police, municipal affairs minister
- Findings of Carra integrity investigation won’t be forwarded to Calgary police, province
- Carra’s investigation won’t be forwarded to Calgary police, province
- City council defeats motion to further investigate Coun. Carra's code of conduct violation
- Calgary city council approves five – maybe eight – new suburban communities
- Calgary city council to debate motion referring Carra integrity investigation to province and police
- Call for police review of councillor's property deal will be decided next week
- Calgary city council to debate motion referring Carra integrity investigation to province and police
- Carra ethics apology coming to Calgary city council on July 26
- Coun. Carra says he'll make formal apology at July 26 council meeting
- Motion to forward Carra investigation is slated for Executive Committee
- Councillors formally call for investigations into Gian-Carlo Carra property deal
- ‘I screwed up’: Gian-Carlo Carra speaks out on integrity commissioner’s investigation
- Calgary councillor wants investigation into colleague after report on Inglewood property
- Wyness wants integrity investigation into Calgary councillor referred to province and police
- City hall adopts updated climate change strategy, eyeing a net-zero 2050
- Wyness wants fellow councillor’s integrity file reviewed by the province, Calgary police
- Councillor asks Carra integrity investigation be referred to province and police
- Committee recommends council to approve 5 new communities on Calgary’s outskirts
June
- Avalon brings net zero multi-family rentals to Calgary's northwest
- Staff shortage within the City of Calgary is annoying many
- Sage Hill homeowners fight back after residents' association's legal threat over unpaid fees
- Sage Hill residents fight ‘alarming’ association fee collection
- Calgary fire budget needs to nearly double to meet industry standards, city says
- Calgary fire department budget would near double to reach industry benchmark: City
May
- Calgary councillors step into city firefighters’ boots for a day
- First recipients of the ENMAX Community Solar Fund beginning to catch some rays
- Councillors questions exits of women from city jobs
April
March
- Council moves forward with review into firefighter resources, response time
- Coun. Wyness apologizes for protest public hearing tweet
- Council agrees to send letter to Calgary Police Commission around Beltline protests
- Council will send a letter to the police commission encouraging more enforcement against freedom protesters
- Calgary councillors want to investigate improving fire department's response standards
- Councillors push to improve fire department's response
- Calgary fire department response review requested by city councillors
- Removal of time restriction sought for bikes aboard Calgary Transit CTrains
- She Governs model council passes Calgary’s street harassment bylaw, adds community service
February
January
- Hawkwood welcomes public to outdoor recreation facility
- Home security costs for Calgary councillors to be covered by the city
- Calgary councillors able to get help paying for home security
- City of Calgary to cover councillor home security systems amid continued threats
- Council narrowly approves up to $120K for security on their private homes
December 2021