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kcantor
Senior Member
Cute! Except I’ve never met anyone - and I doubt you have either - who regularly uses a jerry can to refill their car at home. For good reason.
policyenthusiast
Active Member
Mostly just a joke - gas cans need to be filled at gas stations anyway.
Still, the focus on home charging misses the point. Our electrical grid is broadly falling behind the advances in EV tech. As an example, the Petro-Canada EV charging network is arguably the most extensive in the country, but the chargers are generally below 200kw, with normal charging stations falling around 50-100. The 5-minute charging tech is entering the market soon, but it requires a 1000kw supply to get close to the advertised speeds.
trevorhayden
Active Member
Carney should only agree to adopt North American suggestion to remove minimum electrical vehicle production quotas if Canada also removes tariffs on Chinese EVs.
policyenthusiast
Active Member
EDMONTON, AB, July 11, 2025 - Solving Canada's housing crisis requires immediate action to bring down costs.
To provide Canadians with increased access to affordable and sustainable housing, the governments of Canada and Alberta today announced funding of $203 million to help build over 2,300 affordable housing units across the province. This investment is cost-matched by both governments thanks to the Canada – Alberta Bilateral Agreement under the National Housing Strategy. This funding is delivered through Alberta's Affordable Housing Partnership Program (AHPP).
Projects funded in today's announcement include:
To provide Canadians with increased access to affordable and sustainable housing, the governments of Canada and Alberta today announced funding of $203 million to help build over 2,300 affordable housing units across the province. This investment is cost-matched by both governments thanks to the Canada – Alberta Bilateral Agreement under the National Housing Strategy. This funding is delivered through Alberta's Affordable Housing Partnership Program (AHPP).
Projects funded in today's announcement include:
- Edmonton
- $6 million for 12621665 Canada Association to build affordable housing.
- $20 million for Civida to build mixed-use, mixed-income affordable housing.
- $4.05 million for Williams Hall to build mixed-use affordable housing with a focus to support young adults, students, and individuals facing rental barriers.
- $6.69 million for Brentwood Family Housing Society to build affordable housing for families.
- $4.67 million for The Mustard Seed Foundation to build supportive housing.
- Calgary
- $28.6 million for Calhome Properties to build mixed-income affordable housing.
- $30.5 million for Onward Homes Society to build three affordable housing projects.
- $13 million for 800 GP Corporation to convert a vacant office tower into affordable housing.
- $22 million for Calgary Heritage Housing to build three buildings for seniors self-contained units.
- $3.5 million for Attainable Homes Calgary to build mixed-use, mixed-income affordable housing.
- $7.54 million for Liberty Housing Organization to build mixed-use affordable housing.
- $3.08 million for Victory Outreach Foundation to convert a hotel to affordable housing.
- $6.2 million for Homespace Society to build affordable housing.
- $2.7 million for the City of Calgary to build mixed-income, mixed-use affordable housing.
- Other
- $14.5 million for Homeland Housing to build affordable housing in St. Albert.
- $8.84 million for Heartland Housing Foundation to build affordable housing in Sherwood Park.
- $6.43 million for the Town of Banff to build affordable housing.
- $5.53 million for the Municipality of Jasper to build phase two of its affordable housing project.
- $3.3 million for Westwinds Communities to build affordable housing in Okotoks.
- $3.5 million for Truth North Society to build affordable housing in Strathmore.
- $2.5 million for Canadian Rockies School Division to build affordable housing in Canmore.
- Land transfer for Heartland Housing Foundation to build affordable housing in Fort Saskatchewan.
TAS
Senior Member
Yes, I'm going down this road again because the figures are all outlined in this announcement.
Edmonton: $41 million
Calgary: $118 million
Does Edmonton have to wait for an announcement on correctional facilities and jails to shrink that housing funding gap?
northlands
Senior Member
Possibly weren't as many projects under development who applied for grant funds in Edmonton? + there's $23m for St Alb & Sherwood Park, which really is just Edmonton. But ya... ugly discrepancy there
archited
Senior Member
If you add i conjoined neighborhoods, however, the discrepancy narrows -- Greater Edmonton = $64+; Calgary = $121+
Oilguy
Active Member
Infuriating on the surface given the situation on the ground in both cities. I hope there’s some reasonable explanation for this.
kcantor
Senior Member
You mean more than the fact these funds are all provincially matched so the Province effectively had a veto over how much got spent where? And we already know (a) how much they care about Edmonton and (b) how they have developed absolutely zero on the ground input from Edmonton and (c) how related the first two are.
Oilguy
Active Member
It’s my very obvious suspicion but was leaving myself open to the 1 percent chance it was something else. Our lone liberal mp should be getting some questions.
Gronk!
Senior Member
yeggator
Active Member
I’d assume it’s just because the housing affordability crisis is just worse in Calgary, no? In comparison, house prices have been cheaper and quite stable in Edmonton due in part to us having more available inventory.
policyenthusiast
Active Member
Rewarding their failure to keep up, just like the Housing Accelerator Fund did.
David A
Senior Member
Yes, quite a disparity. I feel the question needs to be asked, perhaps our Federal MP or officials can explain.
It may be due to worse affordability there, but lets not forget Calgary also has higher income levels and there seem to be larger pockets of low income areas in Edmonton, which would seem to me to be where such projects should be targeted.