Opening. Alberta votes on October eighteenth, twenty twenty-seven. Calgary elects twenty-six of the Legislature's eighty-seven members, and many of the province's closest seats are here. This is what the numbers say, for any candidate.

How close every seat is. Thirteen of Calgary's twenty-six electoral divisions were won by less than five points. In Calgary-Acadia, the margin was twenty-two votes. In Calgary-Glenmore, forty-eight. In Calgary-North West, one hundred and forty-three.

The voters who stayed home. In every division, the people who stayed home outnumber the winning margin. About three hundred and fifty thousand electors on Calgary's lists did not vote. In the Calgary-Shaw by-election this September, turnout was just thirty-six percent, and the seat changed hands by five hundred and ninety-one votes.

The October referendum. The October referendum is the newest map of local opinion. On each of the first nine questions, Calgary's Yes vote was seven to eight points below Alberta's. Eighty-two percent of Calgary voters chose for Alberta to remain a province, against seventy-five percent province-wide.

Social media. Where do voters get their news? Social media now leads television. For half of Canadians aged eighteen to thirty-four, it is the main source of news. YouTube and Facebook lead, then Instagram, TikTok and X. Only thirty-seven percent trust most news, so short, local video with a source goes furthest.

Youth engagement. Young people vote less: sixty-six percent of eighteen to twenty-four year olds, against seventy-six percent of all Canadians. Registration, campus outreach, young volunteers, and plain information on how to vote close that gap, and they help every voter.

The playbook. The playbook for any campaign: know the arithmetic. Map the lowest-turnout polling stations. Register and remind. Listen before you speak. Put local facts on every screen. And measure progress every week.

The full report. The full report has a preview for every one of Calgary's twenty-six divisions. The boundaries are still under review, and every figure will be redrawn on the final map.

Opening. Calgary: a hub of innovation, leadership and future growth. Here is what a new investor should know, with the numbers, and where they come from.

A growing market. Calgary is home to about one point six million people. In the year to July twenty twenty-five, its metro area grew two point nine percent, among the fastest in Canada. Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal grew half a percent or less.

Ease of doing business. Alberta has Canada's lowest corporate income tax: eight percent provincial, twenty-three percent combined. There is no provincial sales tax, no payroll tax, and no health premium. Invest Alberta puts the advantage at sixteen point nine billion dollars this year.

Innovation. Calgary is Canada's fastest-growing startup ecosystem. It ranks in the world's top fifty emerging ecosystems, worth seven billion dollars, with three point four billion in venture capital since twenty twenty-one, and a tech workforce up sixty-one percent in three years.

Infrastructure. The infrastructure is already here. Calgary's airport carried a record nineteen point four million passengers in twenty twenty-five. Calgary is home to CPKC, the railway linking Canada, the United States and Mexico. And downtown has quality office space on competitive terms.

Where the openings are. Where are the openings? Calgary has about six everyday local businesses for every thousand residents. In fast-growing suburbs like Cornerstone, Cityscape and Belmont, there are fewer than two. Grocery, health, child care and food are the clearest gaps.

Quality of life and risks. Calgary is safer than the Canadian average, and far more affordable than Toronto or Vancouver. The risks to plan for: energy price cycles, high office vacancy, and a cooling housing market.

The full report. The full report lists every source, the steps to set up a business, and the help available. Calgary Data Desk.

Opening. Ward 5 has public parks and playgrounds close to almost every home. But how many people share them? This is amenities against population, measured the same way for every ward in Calgary.

Distance. First, distance. Ninety-nine percent of homes in Ward 5 are within four hundred metres of a public park, about the same as Calgary as a whole. And seventy-nine percent are within four hundred metres of a playground, more than Calgary's seventy-one percent.

Park crowding. Now, crowding. Take the park space within reach of each home, and share it among everyone who can reach it. Ward 5 has about two point nine hectares of park for every thousand residents. Calgary has five point nine. That is about half, and the second lowest of the fourteen wards.

Playgrounds. Playgrounds tell the same story. Within four hundred metres, Ward 5 has about two playgrounds for every thousand children under fifteen, against four across Calgary. That is the lowest of any ward.

Why. Why? Homes in Ward 5 are fuller. The 2021 Census counted three point six people per household, against two point six in Calgary, and three in ten residents were under twenty. The same parks are shared by more people, and more children.

Community by community. Community by community, against Calgary's level of one. Redstone, Saddle Ridge, Skyview Ranch and Taradale have well under half of Calgary's park space per person. For playgrounds, Cityscape, Falconridge and Skyview Ranch are the most crowded.

How it is measured. How it is measured: every park's area is shared among the residents within four hundred metres of its edge, and every playground among the children nearby. Each home then adds up its shares. A score of one means the same as Calgary. Every ward and community is measured the same way on the Growth versus amenities screen.

Close. Calgary Data Desk, by Hassan Ali. Near is not the same as enough.

Opening. How is Calgary's population shared across its communities? It starts with one number: the City of Calgary's own estimate, about one point six million people this November.

The City’s figure. Step one. The City's figure comes from its Spring 2026 Economic Outlook, with an estimate for each April. Between those, we draw a straight line, month by month. Right now, that line adds about seventy people a day.

The starting point. Step two. Each community starts from its own count in the 2021 Census: about one point two nine million people in all. Since then, the City's figure has added about three hundred and nine thousand.

Placing the growth. Step three. Where do those people go? About one hundred and eighty thousand live in homes built since 2021, so they are placed in the community where those homes were built. The other one hundred and twenty nine thousand come from more people in each home, seniors' homes, residences, shelters, and people the Census missed. That part is shared by every community: ten percent on top of its 2021 count.

How new homes are counted. New homes come from the City's property roll. We keep residential accounts with a home on them, and leave out vacant lots, commercial property, parking stalls and storage lockers. A new home counts as lived in one year after it is built, and a rental building counts by its units.

The same rule for every community. Step four. Every community follows the same rule: its 2021 count, times one point one, plus the people in its new homes. Abbeydale, with no new homes, grows to six thousand five hundred and twenty. Cornerstone, with about thirty two hundred new homes, reaches eighteen thousand one hundred and eighty five. Together, every community adds up to the City's figure.

Where the new homes are. This is where the new homes are. The most people in new homes are on the edges of the city: Cornerstone, Livingston, Mahogany, Carrington and Seton.

Close. Calgary Data Desk, by Hassan Ali. When the 2026 Census counts arrive in February 2027, every community gets a new starting point.