You know exactly who you are. Seriously, pick it up a little. What’s worse is that most times you are dragging your feet shoulder-to-shoulder with your workmates making it very difficult to pass. All I ask is that you walk with a purpose.

Moreover, it should never have been rendered digitally. The computer on which this bridge was designed should be broken. Now come on, good people, tell me this isn’t a $24M Chinese finger trap. But instead of trapping fingers, it might one day confine $24M of our hard-earned money. And for what? To afford us the convenience of not having to walk 2 blocks West to cross at the 10th Street bridge? To spare us from labouring a few blocks to the East to cross at the west-most bridge to Eau-Claire? This has got to be a joke.

If you have ever been to a Starbucks in downtown Calgary during regular business hours, you have likely overheard some well-dressed individual place an order as follows:

<Typing on BlackBerry paused long enough to rattle off> “I would like a quad ristretto iced venti whole milk organic 3 pump vanilla 2 pump cinnamon dolce with foam and whipped cream upside down stirred latte, at 190 degrees fahrenheit with a dusting of fairy magic, a few drops of morning dew from a spring meadow, and a kiss of sunshine.“

Umm… how can I say this politely… fuck off – you are a complete idiot.

Sometime last fall, my 8 month pregnant wife came downtown with our 24 month old on a surprise visit to go for lunch. Unfortunately, the building where I work is not equipped with a wheelchair access ramp, and as my wife started to try and get the stoller up the stairs, 5 or 6 suits [...]