Election 2025: Campaign Roundup - Day 7

Welcome to Day 7 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 7:

• A nationwide postal strike has disrupted mail delivery just weeks before Calgary’s municipal election on October 20th, prompting Elections Calgary to implement new contingency plans. Voter Information Cards may be delayed, and mail-in ballots will now be delivered by courier, with voters covering the return cost. To keep residents informed, voter guides and election details are being shared online, at public locations, and through increased advertising and outreach efforts.
  
  
• Communities First Mayoral candidate Sonya Sharp announced a plan to use a Community Revitalization Levy to spur development on underused land around Calgary’s CTrain stations. She said the approach would lower barriers to building, involve communities early, and support projects that add housing, retail, and transit connections without raising taxes.
  
  
• Jeff Davison, an independent vying for the Mayor’s chair, pledged to make transit worker safety a top priority in Calgary. His plan includes expanding safety programs, increasing patrols, installing secure operator cabins, adding panic buttons, and strengthening rapid response enforcement teams. Davison said these measures are needed to ensure bus and train operators can do their jobs without fear and return home safely.
  
  
• Mayoral candidate Jeromy Farkas unveiled his “Open by Default” plan, pledging to make Calgary the most transparent city in Canada. His proposals include campaign finance reforms like weekly donor disclosures, pre-election expense reports, and limits on third-party influence, along with major changes to City Council’s use of closed-door sessions.

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