Jeremy Klaszus

Tonight only!!! Live Sprawlcast for CJSW 90.9 FM funding drive! 8pm. Will be joined by my pal Lauz, host of Rock Bottom. Gonna air exclusive content re tomorrow’s big #yyccc meeting. Municipal politics meets death metal. You have to hear it to believe it. Tune in and donate!! fundingdrive.ca

What if Calgary instead said to the province that we need them to help clean up these parcels of land so homes could be built there instead? 🤷‍♂️

Blame me if you want... but also, seriously do support The Sprawl!!! sprawlcalgary.fundjournalism.org/donate/

Just updated this story with a synopsis of the main points ("the short version") at the top. Skim or dig in as you prefer.

HOT OFF THE PRESS! Calgary city council will decide whether to approve 7 new communities in the coming weeks (incl 3 on Tuesday). Meanwhile city hall is bracing for less revenue from suburban developers after new UCP restrictions. I dig into all this and more...

Last week the City of Calgary comms department told me The Sprawl puts in "big asks" to their department. I like that. BIG-ASK JOURNALISM. It has a nice ring to it. May use in a future crowdfunding campaign

Alberta seems like they could totally run their own country.

When activist journalism goes.... waaaaaaaay too far. A disgrace.

I just want Monday to be over. And it's only Friday!

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Details are still thin but this is just awful news. Thinking of everyone who is affected and grieving today. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This right here is the perfect headline. Picture it, big and bold, on the front of a tabloid newspaper: THE GRIPES OF RATH. Oh to have thought of that myself!!

Important piece by @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social on the state of pedestrian mobility in Calgary and responsiveness. A deep-dive article is linked below; there's also a complementary Sprawlcast on this topic, released today. Consume, consider both. www.sprawlcalgary.com/calgary-pede...

New Sprawlcast episode out this morning, about pedestrian safety—or lack thereof—in Calgary. (Headline idea from @chealion.ca, who made a bot that tracks and tweets pedestrian incidents in the city)

tired of Alberta, tbh

Will be on CJSW 90.9 FM tomorrow morning chatting with @peterloliver.bsky.social about this story. At 9:15ish. Tune in! 📻

A great read from @klaszus.bsky.social as always. Thank you for writing this! I continue to be dumbfounded by anyone that argues against safer streets after reading the stats in this piece. We know what works, & it's not letting drivers behave recklessly & drive fast.

Just found out from this article that two streets in our neighborhood (Northmount Dr NW and Bulyea Drive NW) will have their speed limits reduced to 40 Kph. 🎉🎉🎉 About time.

Patios are the new dog parks.

Good morning.

David Goa, a friend and mentor, interviewed me for the new episode of his podcast, "In Conversation." I interviewed him for MY podcast a few years back (one of my all-time fav Sprawlcast episodes). Now the tables have turned! Enjoy. www.davidgoa.ca/jeremy-klaszus

There is a big new @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social story coming. Was supposed to come out last weekend. Then this morning. Now tomorrow. Can't quite stick the landing on it. But need to get the damn thing out the door. Wait for it!

I just used the word "ballyhooed" in a story. That makes my day.

Thinking it's time to print brothels on The Sprawl's Pop-Up Press. Yes, brothels. Not this week, trying to get a piece finished for this weekend, but maybe Monday or Tuesday. You heard it here first!

The Pokaiks walk for reconciliation in Calgary today.

Also common now: greeting someone in the neighbourhood with a "hello" and getting no response. They can't even hear it. But I guess listening to a bunch of podcasts makes one "smarter"...

I've stayed up til 1am the last couple nights watching the Red Green Show 🙃

A chilly, dreary day was made brighter and warmer by attending @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social's printing pop-up to spend time with @klaszus.bsky.social and @calgaryhester.bsky.social along with others, serendipitously, from The Sprawl's readership community. 🇨🇦 Let community lift you, friends.💗

Today at Two Pillars Brewery! Sprawl meetup from 2 - 4pm. Drop by anytime. @calgaryhester.bsky.social will be there signing prints!

I have completely lost the plot on the Sprawl story that I'm trying to finish in time to publish in the morning. Good grief

Join us Sat Sept 26 to celebrate The Sprawl's 9th anniversary! At Two Pillars Brewery from 2-4pm. Will have the Pop-Up Press and @calgaryhester.bsky.social will be there to sign prints. Would love to see ya there! 🍻 (there's also good coffee next door if you'd rather do coffee than beer!)

Tomorrow (Thurs Sept 24) I'm moderating a panel at the Central Library on the history of western alienation in Alberta. Killer panel with political scientists Lisa Young @jlisayoung.bsky.social, Lori Williams & Anthony Sayers. You should come!

I want to go to New York City again but am not traveling to the U.S. at all. So no NYC. Fond memories of when I was there in 2017 though. Would get up early and go to this plaza to read the paper.

As The Sprawl begins its 10th year (!) I'm thrilled that we have been named Alberta Magazine of the Year!

It is mortifying to find a typo in a piece you just published. Doubly so when it's in the text AND a pull quote. Although I'm told typos now indicate a human touch and that they are, in our time, kind of a good thing. Okay. Suuuure. But a good editor should not be happy with typos.

“It makes life richer if you can walk down the block and see a place that’s always been there, that previous generations have walked by, that future generations walk by.... You know the place is rooted, and we need roots."

“If you wanted to know something, it didn’t matter who you were. He would find it out for you, and he would share that information with you.”

What a tremendous tribute to Harry the Historian. Thanks @klaszus.bsky.social www.sprawlcalgary.com/remembering-...

Harry Sanders was a true mensch who brought Calgary's history to life. I wrote in The Sprawl about what he meant to the city.

No one's into this but I'm willing to go as high as $90 for the naming rights

Calgary city hall is again seeking a sponsor for the CTrain Free Fare Zone. Time for the Sprawl Free Fare Zone! Everything has been leading to this

In 2019, Harry Sanders wrote for The Sprawl about an old Calgary violin shop that got demolished that year. A lovely elegy capturing a forgotten bit of the city's past. Today I republished it in his honour. (Harry died on Sunday, at the age of 59.)

This morning's special council meeting on Cllr. Johnston leaking budget info was a classic case of "this could have been an email." Council can't do anything (prov killed muni codes of conduct), votes to have mayor write letter to Min. Williams. Johnston vs Farkas is theatrics vs theatrics. #yyccc

The writers and artists I respect most don’t deform themselves to reach the widest possible audience as frequently as possible. They dig deeper and in doing so, are able to speak a resonant word into the times in which they live. My latest in The Sprawl.

Is it just me or is the Calgary city council web feed very quiet at the moment? I've got it cranked and it's still very quiet. #yyccc