What’s next? Is anything else falling apart in Calgary? Or have we finally reached rock bottom?

The future of transit is in a state of chaos, the water supply’s been hit and miss all summer, the budget’s a financial boondoggle into which we’ve paid half a billion more than necessary, while the new zoning regulations are causing a citizen revolt on a scale unknown in our city.

And now our libraries have become the plaything of hackers.

No doubt some city councillors are clinging by their fingertips to the convenient view this is simply bad luck: that it could have happened to any city, anywhere. Therefore, nobody’s really to blame and, certainly, no one should be held to account. But those of us who face navigating the real world — one where responsibility isn’t some unmentionable word — cannot help concluding things are far from perfect at city hall and someone should be held to account.

This recently proud and vibrant city is currently engulfed in........

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