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Calgary Sun

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Leong: Calgary's proposed residential rezoning is about offering housing choices

Despite what the political rhetoric suggests, upzoning will allow our neighbourhoods to evolve slowly and naturally to enable more housing choices....

15.04.2024 10

Winnipeg Sun

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Leong: Calgary's proposed residential rezoning is about offering housing choices

15.04.2024 5

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Calgary can learn from New Zealand's upzoning experience

Faced with skyrocketing housing prices and insufficient housing stock, the New Zealand government relaxed zoning rules in 2021. Auckland, its largest...

01.04.2024 8

Winnipeg Sun

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Leong: Calgary can learn from New Zealand's upzoning experience

01.04.2024 5

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Proposed zoning changes drives debate on parking, neighbourhood character

Calgary is less than one month from public hearings on proposed citywide upzoning. You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in...

25.03.2024 10

Winnipeg Sun

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Leong: Proposed zoning changes drives debate on parking, neighbourhood character

25.03.2024 7

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Allowing more types of low-density housing won't ruin our neighbourhoods

Calgary's proposed residential zoning changes have been described at times as some kind of free-for-all, but this is not the case. It didn’t take...

18.03.2024 6

Winnipeg Sun

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Leong: Allowing more types of low-density housing won't ruin our neighbourhoods

18.03.2024 6

Calgary Sun

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Leong: It takes more than easy parking to stimulate economic activity

A sea of parking spaces won't be of any assistance if there's no reason for people to be somewhere As a driver, there’s only one thing more annoying...

11.03.2024 7

Winnipeg Sun

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Leong: It takes more than easy parking to stimulate economic activity

11.03.2024 10

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Alberta can stop calling and instead let the job market sort itself out

04.03.2024 6

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Alberta can stop calling and instead let the job market sort itself out

You wouldn’t be faulted if you were starting to wonder if the Alberta is Calling campaign, while well-intentioned, has resulted in more drawbacks...

04.03.2024 7

Winnipeg Sun

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Leong: Stop saying Canada is too big for us to get things done

Enough with the excuses to explain why Canada can't have or do anything There was a time when Canada’s awesome breadth was in itself a call to...

26.02.2024 7

Winnipeg Sun

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Leong: Stop saying Canada is too big for us to get things done

26.02.2024 6

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Why the residential property tax system is broken and how we can fix it

Most Calgarians thought talk of local budgets and property taxes had been put to rest, months ago. Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city...

29.01.2024 8

Winnipeg Sun

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Leong: Why the residential property tax system is broken and how we can fix it

29.01.2024 8

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Albertans have power to conduct rational discussion about electrical grid shortcomings

In addition to the obvious potential solutions to secure Alberta's power grid, there's an entire conversation we aren't having. It’s been more than...

22.01.2024 9

Winnipeg Sun

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Leong: Albertans have power to conduct rational discussion about power grid shortcomings

22.01.2024 10

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Let summer patios liven up Banff's main street

Banff isn’t just an ordinary town: it has to operate within the confines of the Canada National Parks Act — and this is where things get sticky....

15.01.2024 6

Winnipeg Sun

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Leong: Let summer patios liven up Banff's main street

15.01.2024 8

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Politicians seem entitled to extravagant gifts from friends

You'd think people like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Danielle Smith would know how perception can be more powerful than reality — and...

08.01.2024 7

Winnipeg Sun

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Leong: Politicians seem entitled to extravagant gifts from friends

08.01.2024 20

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Electric vehicles aren't a magic solution to our problems

Switching to electric vehicles would address the trouble with emissions but it fixes nothing else Electric vehicles don’t emit exhaust but the topic...

28.12.2023 10

Winnipeg Sun

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Leong: Electric vehicles aren't a magic solution to our problems

28.12.2023 10

Calgary Sun

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Leong: It's long past time for us to get rid of tipping

18.12.2023 9

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Calgary Co-op's compostable bags target of pointless federal crackdown

Of all the actions taken by the federal government in the name of protecting the environment, clamping down on compostable shopping bags has got to be...

11.12.2023 9

Edmonton Sun

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Leong: Calgary Co-op's compostable shopping bags target of pointless federal crackdown

11.12.2023 10

Calgary Sun

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Leong: We should stop allowing right turns on red lights

04.12.2023 5

Calgary Sun

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Leong: What's Calgary waiting for to stop recent wave of violent crime?

30.11.2023 5

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Can Calgary afford to keep the lights on? Streetlight budget says no

20.11.2023 9

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Why we shouldn't be surprised higher interest rates are likely here to stay

13.11.2023 5

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Small-town Canmore faced with big-city growth problem

30.10.2023 6

Calgary Sun

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Leong: How Calgary can get better snow clearing without spending an extra cent

23.10.2023 7

Calgary Sun

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LEONG: Good reasons to be skeptical of proposed Alberta Pension Plan

During the election campaign earlier this year, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith did everything she could to avoid talking about her party’s proposed...

17.10.2023 8

Edmonton Sun

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Leong: Good reasons to be skeptical of proposed Alberta Pension Plan

16.10.2023 5

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Calgary's new housing strategy only the first of many hurdles to clear

18.09.2023 4

Calgary Sun

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Leong: On housing file, Calgary can't keep kicking can down the road

11.09.2023 10

Calgary Sun

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