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18 Feb, 20 tweets, 11 min read
NHL is on tonight, so...

In 2019 #yyccc approved spending $290 Million on a new arena.

In 2018 there were 2911 homeless people in Calgary.

That’s about $99,622.12 going to support Billionaire N. Murray Edwards for each homeless person in the city.

#GoFlames
Source for Calgary’s homeless numbers.

homelesshub.ca/community-prof…
“Coun. Evan Woolley convinced only three fellow councillors that reconsidering the taxpayer-funded portion of the arena was the way forward.”

Woolley was right.

cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
$99,622.12 for each homeless person to house Billionair N. Murray Edwards’ sports team while so many are left out in the cold.

globalnews.ca/news/7630785/c…
And shelters in Calgary have seen covid outbreaks.

But at least Billionaire N. Murray Edwards’ sports team has a home.

#GoFlames

globalnews.ca/news/7454893/c…
Billionaire N. Murray Edwards was not without his own philanthropic efforts.

In 2012 he organized a fundraising dinner at Calgary’s Petroleum Club with oil, gas and pipeline companies helped raise more than $1 million to support Christy Clark in 1 night!
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2017/0…
Since then Billionaire N. Murray Edwards has kept a lower profile with his political “philanthropy.”

Along with Billionaire Daryle Katz he’s used the Alberta Enterprise Group as a way to push policy and lobby government.

#ableg #cdnpoli

Among campaigns to support reactionary Conservatives like Stephen Harper, “in December 2011, AEG led a counter-boycott of Chiquita Bananas in response to the company signing on to an anti-oil sands campaign.”

globalnews.ca/news/191674/cr…
Sometime around 2019, Billionaires N. Murray Edwards and Daryl Katz were joined at the AEG by a new lobby group made up of Jason Kenney’s former staffers called Wellington Advocacy.

(They don’t advocate for the homeless.)

web.archive.org/web/2021012604…
The “advocacy” they do seemed to have paid off.

“Jason Kenney’s corporate tax cuts are buoying the profits of Alberta’s biggest corporations, like CNRL, which is paying out big time to shareholders like billionaire Murray Edwards.”

saltalberta.ca/index.php/2019…
While Billionaire N. Murray Edwards enjoys his tax breaks and looks forward to $99,622.12 from Calgary for each homeless person in the city, the homeless crisis drags on as it has done for years.

#GoFlames

calgaryherald.com/news/local-new…
Late last year @nenshi was optomistic about making progress towards ending homelessness.

“Nenshi said the federal government’s investment of $1 billion for cities to buy motels and hotels for rapid housing is a good first step.”

#yyccc

globalnews.ca/news/7354723/c…
Mayor Nenshi is right that this is an important issue, and he’s right that it can be solved in just a few years if the political will is there, especially from the rest of #yyccc.

Here’s an old photo of him in Billionaire N. Murray Edwards’ sports jersey.
Of course it’s a well known fact that “addressing housing directly is cheaper than relying on cops and emergency rooms.”

(And #yyccc found $99,622.12 for every homeless person to fund a new house for Billionaire N. Murray Edwards’ sports team.)

vox.com/2014/5/30/5764…
Though he enjoys much social and fiscal support from the municipal and provincial governments, Billionaire N. Murray Edwards left Calgary in 2016.

It totally wasn’t to avoid paying taxes.

albertapolitics.ca/2016/05/offici…
While Billionaire Murray Edwards is away, and his sports team and revenue sources team plays on ice, some are still here trying to reduce homelessness.

Groups like @calgaryhomeless...

...And the Bear Clan Patrol.

“The Clan has seen first-hand how these difficult circumstances have impacted vulnerable Calgarians.”

#ableg #yyc

sprawlcalgary.com/bear-clan-calg…
Bear Clan Patrol also has a group working in Edmonton helping to manage the homeless crisis there.

I wrote a thread about #yeg’s homeless crisis here:

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If you see anyone homeless in the cold this winter, or if you would like to donate, here’s how you can reach the Bear Clan YYC.

Forgot this, which belongs in the middle of the thread:

Calgary has more than 20,000 vacant properties, more tha six for each of the city’s homeless.

Remember: in a city with billionaires, the existence of homelessness is a choice.

#yyccc #yyc

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