Academic Director of the Ualberta Sustainability Council and Director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning.
Joined April 2012
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Robert (Bob) Summers retweeted
Apr 16
Each time Alberta has established an Electoral Boundaries Commission to redraw election maps the government has accepted the commission’s majority report, so I was surprised and disappointed to learn that a committee of MLAs has instead been tasked with creating a new map. /1
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Robert (Bob) Summers retweeted
Apr 16
Such a bummer knowing left wing transit advocacy groups are going to spend the next few decades campaigning against autonomously driven buses (which could drastically increase service hours) because they prioritize the demands of transit unions, not the riding public.
Apr 16
For the first time in Norwegian history, a bus will carry passengers in regular traffic without any human behind the wheel. The first pilot without a safety driver was tested Friday, and if all goes as planned, anyone can ride driverless buses starting in May.
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Robert (Bob) Summers retweeted
“If you were Mr Poilievre would you quit today?”
Carney unsuccessfully tries not to laugh.
“Pierre Poilievre called you badly educated in economics,..”
“Did he?”
Dumbfounded.
“Wow”.
“Can I take back my previous answer?”
My guy.
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LMAO.
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Robert (Bob) Summers retweeted
Apr 13
okay I guess I have to talk about Péter Magyar here.
Let me just start with saying, in a very unladylike way, that you guys seem to have zero clue what happened in Hungary in the last two years, you completely miss the point, and you're a disappointing bunch.
Let's go.
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Robert (Bob) Summers retweeted
Apr 14
Did the head of lettuce express a view?
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Trump urges people in Hungary to “get out and vote” for Kremlin-backed kleptocrat Viktor Orbán.
It’s Trump, Putin, and Orbán vs. the free world.
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Ok, you can push a magic button that automatically makes whomever is in the Bunny suit immediately become the President replacing Donald Trump. How quickly do you push it?
Apr 6
Trump: "How did I do with the voters that do eggs? Did anybody in the egg industry vote for Kamala? A low IQ person. She's a low IQ person."
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Mar 28
If freedom prevails, future academics will need to look back and study why universities provided basically zero resistance to the rise of authoritarianism.
In any other administration there would have been massive protests over this single interview.
FCC Chair: Trump is winning. Look at the results—PBS and NPR defunded. Joy Reid, Sleepy-Eyed Chuck Todd, Jim Acosta, John Dickerson are gone. Colbert is leaving. CBS is under new ownership, and soon enough CNN will have new ownership as well.
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Mar 22
This is the right solution. Make it easier to build new homes, make it easier to rent spaces out legally.
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Robert (Bob) Summers retweeted
Mar 20
Delighted to join Minister @EleanorO_MP, and Deputy Mayor @AshleyASalvador this morning to launch five new #yegdt Student Housing Incentive projects that will provide over 550 new units in downtown Edmonton. This is great news for learners at @MacEwanU, @NorQuest and @UAlberta!
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Robert (Bob) Summers retweeted
Mar 19
This should have been on the front page of The New York Times.
I speak to students in America and most have no idea that more than 30,000 Iranians were killed for protesting and demanding freedom.
No names. No faces. No coverage. This silence kills me.💔
Thank you, Australia.
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Robert (Bob) Summers retweeted
Mar 17
The United States is no longer a democracy and is sliding towards autocracy faster than Hungary and Turkey, according to the annual report of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Gothenburg University. theguardian.com/world/commen…
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Robert (Bob) Summers retweeted
Mar 17
"Six months ago the Navy decommissioned its four Avenger-class minesweepers that had been stationed in Bahrain precisely to deal with Iranian mines.
It gets dumber: Those four final American minesweepers left the theater in mid-January."
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Robert (Bob) Summers retweeted
Platform screen doors are going in on Madrid Metro Line 6. The cost to add them to 28 stations is $150 million CAD, or $5.4 million per station. The TTC's cost for installing Platform Screen Doors at 70 subway stations is $4.2 billion or $60 million per station.
En Madrid avanza un cambio trascendental en la movilidad: la automatización de la Línea 6.
Por ahora solo hay puertas de andén en Legazpi y Arganzuela-Planetario. Pero, tras el ramp-up y la curva de aprendizaje, la producción se acelerará y empezarán a verse en más estaciones.
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Mar 12
Honestly, this period will be called the “Great Stupid Era” by future historians.
Mar 12
🗣️ "I'm going to make a prediction that you will be, in the not too distant future, running for political office. And you have my complete and total endorsement"
Donald Trump endorsed Jake Paul at a Republican rally before dancing with the Youtuber backstage
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Mar 10
The oddest crush in presidential history continues.
"He wants to be helpful," President Trump says regarding his conversation with President Putin and Iran, despite reports that Russia was providing intel to Iran on US military targets.
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Robert (Bob) Summers retweeted
Mar 9
1/ Messages hacked from a Russian general's phone illustrate the sweeping scale of corruption at all levels of the Russian army. They highlight a top-to-bottom pyramid of extortion and bribery to obtain promotions and influence, plus scams and theft of military resources. ⬇️
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Robert (Bob) Summers retweeted
Mar 7
SAVE US MACT SAVE THE OILERS
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Calgary is in trouble. A small apartment in a good location with no one speaking in opposition was rejected by council.
Perspectives: On housing, Mayor Farkas promised a plan and hasn’t delivered livewirecalgary.com/2026/03/… via @livewirecalgary
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