Kim Kelln

Calgary, we hope to see you at Connections Brewing for another pub night! November 10, 2026 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM MT Last Best Brewing & Distilling (Upstairs in the dining room) 607 – 11th Ave SW Calgary

Danielle Smith didn’t draw a line in the sand for UCP separatists, she instituted a gentle policy of ‘Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell’ albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/dani...

Now, more than ever, Albertans need to kick their addiction to grievance politics. #abpoli #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/26/o...

Few, if any, Canadian commentators are as adept at debunking the Alberta perpetual grievance complex as Max

The mental gymnastics required to formulate her claims are impressive. She turned an incentive meant to solve a housing problem into a “bribe.” She is a world class contortionist with zero scruples and a velvet tongue.

Should Danielle Smith be able to order your local council to vote to approve rezoning for a massive AI data centre? And threaten to fire your democratically elected mayor if they vote against it? This latest provincial overreach isn't about density. It's about your legal right to a fair hearing.

🔥 This isn't about zoning or bike lanes or pedestrian safety or anything else we elect our City Council to do. It's about respect (or complete disrespect) for local voters and communities. Wild.

Danielle Smith orders Edmonton City Council to drop its infill housing policy. Respect for local democracy? Forget about it! This isn’t a request from Alberta’s premier; it’s an order! albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/dani...

Calgary had a record year for pedestrian deaths in 2025. New in The Sprawl, I dig into how our streets got so dangerous after city hall's Vision Zero efforts (or lack thereof).

A decade ago, Calgary city council approved a new pedestrian strategy that aimed to dramatically reduce carnage on city streets by 2025. Instead the opposite happened. We dig into why—and what comes next. #yyccc

The Short Story Challenge 2027 kicks off on January 22nd, and registration is now open! The 21st annual competition will challenge writers worldwide to create short stories based on genre, subject, and character assignments. Learn more and register at www.nycmidnight.com/ssc. Good luck, writers!

Everybody loves the romantic dream of high-speed rail – too bad it’s a boondoggle that’s sure to flop. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/ever...

No matter what happens in the 2026 midterms -- or even the 2028 presidential election -- Canadians will never trust the United States the way it used to. The north remembers. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/29/o...

Danielle Smith’s referendum is an evil plot to keep the separatist fire burning. On referendum day: Vote Option 1 on Question 10. Vote NO on Questions 1–9. It’s the only way to save Canada.  To find referendum information and get involved with the campaign, visit savecanada.albertandp.ca.

I like @jeromyyyc.bsky.social’s take in this @ryanjespersen.bsky.social video. If 2% of people travel in the city by bicycle, let’s allocate 2% of the capital budget to safe bicycle infrastructure. It’s only 2%🤷‍♂️ 🚲😀👍 #yycBike #yegBike

Danielle Smith says she's putting us through all of this and spending $200 million because it will "settle the separatist question." No one believes her. Not even her separatist pals and certainly not Albertans, most of whom think she's a separatist. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I joined @missingmiddleca.bsky.social to talk about the backlash to cycling that's happening in some places in North America recently. youtu.be/6z76EAQYZiU?...

Alberta separation could hammer Calgary families with $5,500 more in taxes plus $5,500 less in income for a typical worker. Talk to your neighbours and get involved. Calgary cannot afford to sit this one out.

UCP slaps ‘punitive tax’ on solar panels, opening new front in its War on Renewable Energy. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/ucp-...

There's a lot of rage farming over a leaked City Hall wish list today. Don't fall for it. Every want and request gets tallied before the hard choices begin. Last time, we started around 6% and finished at 1.2%, prioritizing the the essential services and public safety Calgarians rely on.

It’s official, the Calgary-Shaw byelection has been called. On September 14, you have the opportunity to elect the extraordinary Kyle Campbell as the next MLA for Calgary-Shaw.

The novel will be released as a standard #paperback as befits a story about a #hardboileddetective in #1950s Los Angeles. Mid-century LA is (IMHO) the heart of #noir and #hardboileddetective film and fiction. See more at my newly revamped website kimkelln.com

It's time for the big cover reveal for my forthcoming novel, "the Missing Singer: A Hank Retzer Mystery". I am very close to publishing but I do not have a firm date yet — the last bit of logistics is completely out of my hand. See more at kimkelln.com

If building safe bicycle infrastructure on streets is social engineering (according to Alberta UCP Transportation Minister), then what is the vehicle infrastructure on our streets? #antisocialengineering #Alberta #yyc #yeg #Calgary #Edmonton

I got a $5,200 raise by bicycling to my job downtown thanks to Social Engineering. Great news! It’s available to everyone who works downtown!* #yycBike #Calgary #Edmonton #socialengineering #yegBike

From the DM’s/Reddit… Looks like the new Alberta Healthcare rollout is going just as smoothly as the ADAP rollout. Danielle Smith likes to say that the UCP can walk and chew gum at the same time. Sure doesn’t look that way… #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Analytics from an old survey I ran about winter biking in Calgary way back in 2014. The results are interesting. I might run the survey again this winter to see how the results compare. This was a precursor to the Bicicles movie. #yycbike #wintercycling. kimkelln.com/wcbc/ vimeo.com/173569356

Danielle Smith is no stranger to using leverage to achieve her political goals — except when it comes to Donald Trump. It’s almost like those goals don’t include standing up for the rest of Canada. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/31/o...

“Today’s announcement guarantees faster access to diagnostic tests for those who can afford to pay thousands of dollars for some tests, while everyone else is left waiting even longer,” Mr. Haji said.

Let’s go back to the future Danielle Smith promised us: ‘No one should ever have to pay out of pocket to see a family doctor’ albertapolitics.ca/2026/07/lets...

File this under scaling new heights of hypocrisy, Ric McIver encouraging people to get a mail in ballot. He was the minister who eliminated tabulators and tightened voter ID rules based on no evidence. The long line ups, and astronomical cost of the referendum to taxpayers are on him.

"Democracy demands more than periodic voting. It requires ongoing cooperation with people we've failed to persuade." ☕📖 Weekend read: "losers' consent" meets "winners' restraint" - what each side owes the other in a democracy.

“The government must be upfront and honest with Albertans about how much this will cost families & how much longer waits will get for cancer screening and diagnostic scans."   “These changes could have deadly consequences for Albertans" The NDP on the UCP's recent changes. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

“By September, Albertans will face a system of legislated queue-jumping for surgeries, in direct contravention of the Canada Health Act. The urgency of addressing this threat to our universal Medicare cannot be overstated,” FOM's Chris Gallaway said. medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n...

We’re using the word e-bike to describe too many things. Electric assist bikes are a version of bike & have many public interest benefits. But vehicles being driven by food delivery app drivers aren’t a form of bike…they’re a form of motorcycle. They don’t belong on sidewalks or pedestrian streets.

Given that long waits prompt would-be voters to leave the lines (that's part of the UCP's strategy for urban areas), conventional get-out-the-vote strategies fall short if they don't encourage people to use advance polls and mail-in ballots. +

UCP apologists clutch their pearls about premier’s ‘fascist pancakes’ albertapolitics.ca/2026/07/ucp-...

This referendum will cost nearly $180 million. Today we learned that premier Danielle Smith and the UCP spent $300,000 on a Toronto based firm to create a one-sided biased website to try and get the result they want. Albertans deserve better. calgaryherald.com/news/politic...

Yikes! It was so long ago it’s hard to remember that the UCP and Smith were all about affordability and red-tape reduction / small government. They’re now doing the opposite like that was their goal all along.

"A complaint box returns complaints, no matter what the underlying reality is. Stand up a form asking whether something bothers you, and you will collect a pile of yeses, which the province can then hold up as a mandate" livewirecalgary.com/2026/07/19/p...

$&#% your fascist pancakes! An Alberta moment. There’s just something about FYFP that perfectly encapsulates the current state of political affairs in Alberta. albertapolitics.ca/2026/07/your...

Someone should convince Trump that the wind farms could be used to blow the smoke back into Canada.

Well, looks like a message was received, and the 'survey' has been changed to allow you to choose "None" as an option. #yycbike #yegbike

Send an email instead of participating in dreeshen's social engineering survey #yycbike #yegbike

Remember the restaurant critic who wrote up reviews about places they never ate at? Me neither? So why are we taking advice or surveying people about bike lanes from people who have never ridden in them.🤷‍♂️

"By focusing the public’s attention so deliberately on Ottawa, they can distract them from the very real policy failures happening in their own province." Their strategy is to say "Our grievances are legitimate" often enough that everybody might start to believe it's true.

Right-wing think tankers urge PM Mark Carney to leave Alberta alone to undermine public health care albertapolitics.ca/2026/06/righ... #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

“parallel private-payment systems do not reduce public wait times. They increase them by diverting scarce resources away from public systems.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

It's time to cut through the bullshit about the Cowboys tent. Stampede succeeds because Calgarians welcome millions of people into our city. That goodwill matters. Bad operators do not get to treat neighbours like garbage and damage the reputation of an event that belongs to all of us.

Great idea my darling wife came up with. Let’s all collect our Dani Bucks and donate the $100 to the #ABNDP.