Election 2025: Campaign Roundup - Day 6

Welcome to Day 6 of our Calgary 2025 Campaign Roundup!

With the 2025 municipal election underway, we'll be bringing you daily updates on all the policy proclamations, platform promises, and political point-scoring from the campaign trail.

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Campaign Roundup - Day 6:

• Transit safety is a major focus in Calgary’s municipal election, with voters citing concerns about crime, social disorder, and open drug use on buses and trains. Candidates are proposing a variety of measures: Jeff Davison supports more peace officers, secure operator cabins, panic buttons, and surveillance; Jeromy Farkas wants increased officer presence and a transit advocate to audit safety at every stop; Jyoti Gondek plans targeted patrols, better coordination with outreach workers, and a non-emergency response line; Sonya Sharp emphasizes hiring 500 new police officers to meet national ratios; and Brian Thiessen proposes more cameras and lighting, along with 24/7 mental health support teams integrated with transit police.
  
  
• Calgary’s first municipal election with political parties is creating challenges for progressive voters, as none of the three registered parties - A Better Calgary Party, Communities First, and The Calgary Party - position themselves as explicitly progressive. Many independents are now appealing to progressive priorities like climate action and urban density, with voters concerned about potential vote-splitting in key wards.
  
  
• Two Mayoral candidates - Jyoti Gondek and Jeromy Farkas - hosted Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions on Reddit. You can read the thread for Gondek here and for Farkas here.
  
  
• Mayoral candidate Brian Thiessen appeared on the Ryan Jespersen podcast. Brian is running with The Calgary Party and discusses the perception of being an “underdog” in the race.

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