Reddit pulse / page 15
Every post from Reddit, newest first.
Someone's running a contest called Pluck the Purple — pick 15+ purple flowers, photo your bouquet in a vase or bagged for garbage, submit it, and you're in a draw for a $100 local garden centre gift card. Free entry, enter as many times as you want.
Calgary Fire Department is reminding people not to wear ankle leashes while paddleboarding on the river — a safety issue that has claimed lives.
ivor strong bridge is now open. one less thing to navigate around during the deerfoot upgrade mess.
folk fest pulled in solid numbers this weekend even with the smoke hanging around and the heat. people showed up anyway.
andrew clarke just stepped in as the new ceo of calgary co-op. he's talking about fixing the financials and making the customer experience better.
Heavy police and fire response on Hawkstone Drive in Hawkwood last night. Looks like a house fire — the whole block was lit up.
Workers at the Shops at Heritage complex are noticing the parkade sinking. There are now support beams underneath and a bunch of no-parking signs up front, but maintenance crews aren't visible yet.
The rotten egg smell is back in the northeast again. People reporting it say the fire department confirmed a couple of years ago it's probably the drying-out retention ponds.
311 requests are getting closed without explanation or any actual work done. People report potholes unfixed, missing bus shelters never replaced, pothole tickets disappearing. The system's not working the way it used to.
17th Ave was buzzing Saturday night—someone posted random photos from the Red Mile and is trying to reconnect with folks who wanted to be tagged but didn't exchange socials.
smoke painted the sky again over Calgary this weekend—photos from around the city show bulls grazing under an orange haze, and Deerfoot commuters captured sunsets so vivid they look edited but weren't.
realtors are cold-calling homes in older Calgary neighborhoods to see if owners might consider private sales. one parent asked Reddit if it actually works—the thread has plenty of takes.
parent took the kids down, realized both are still too jumpy around animals to bring one home yet. good call on building exposure first.
folks are suggesting Central and Signal Hill libraries for their kids sections — good spots to beat the heat and smoke.
redditor asking for local groups to talk about books — into Red Rising right now and wants to find people who actually care about reading.
Prince Rahim Aga Khan got the White Hat Ceremony and absolutely nailed the "Yahoo!"—officially an honourary Calgarian now.
Mosquitoes have dropped off hard. Could be the wildfire smoke, could be the dragonflies arrived—either way, no bites tonight.
Green Bottle's closing after eight years. Last night was a bang.
Smoky sunset from Tom Campbell's Hill Thursday night around 9:20 p.m.—wildfire smoke giving the sky a whole mood.
the Henday's northbound lane at 17th Ave is shut down rn — significant crash, all traffic getting pushed onto 17th. major delays if you're commuting through that area.
