The Sprawl
@sprawlcalgary.bsky.social
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🤠 Calgary’s first town council meeting, in 1884, was in a saloon. They soon upgraded to a town hall—“a very cheerless, cold and inconvenient place,” councillors lamented. 🥶
Each day until Oct 20, The Sprawl is publishing a new Sam Hester comic on Calgary’s political history. Stay tuned! #yyccc
Each day until Oct 20, The Sprawl is publishing a new Sam Hester comic on Calgary’s political history. Stay tuned! #yyccc
October 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
🤠 Calgary’s first town council meeting, in 1884, was in a saloon. They soon upgraded to a town hall—“a very cheerless, cold and inconvenient place,” councillors lamented. 🥶
Each day until Oct 20, The Sprawl is publishing a new Sam Hester comic on Calgary’s political history. Stay tuned! #yyccc
Each day until Oct 20, The Sprawl is publishing a new Sam Hester comic on Calgary’s political history. Stay tuned! #yyccc
Most likely it was @klaszus.bsky.social Instagram feed, which we use instead (not being able to use the Sprawl one).
October 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Most likely it was @klaszus.bsky.social Instagram feed, which we use instead (not being able to use the Sprawl one).
❌ No votes for you! Calgary had a very limited local democracy in its early days…
Every day in October, until Election Day (Oct 20), we're sharing a new @calgaryhester.bsky.social comic about Calgary’s election history. Stay tuned for more! #yyccc
Every day in October, until Election Day (Oct 20), we're sharing a new @calgaryhester.bsky.social comic about Calgary’s election history. Stay tuned for more! #yyccc
October 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
❌ No votes for you! Calgary had a very limited local democracy in its early days…
Every day in October, until Election Day (Oct 20), we're sharing a new @calgaryhester.bsky.social comic about Calgary’s election history. Stay tuned for more! #yyccc
Every day in October, until Election Day (Oct 20), we're sharing a new @calgaryhester.bsky.social comic about Calgary’s election history. Stay tuned for more! #yyccc
Today we're kicking off a new Calgary election comics series by @calgaryhester.bsky.social! Every day from now until Oct 20, we'll be posting a new panel. Think of it as a local election Advent calendar—with a new surprise each day about Calgary's political history! #yyccc
October 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Today we're kicking off a new Calgary election comics series by @calgaryhester.bsky.social! Every day from now until Oct 20, we'll be posting a new panel. Think of it as a local election Advent calendar—with a new surprise each day about Calgary's political history! #yyccc
OK so one candidate was absent (Anthony Ascue, A Better Calgary Party) but five of the six Ward 7 candidates were there. Available to watch anytime. www.sprawlcalgary.com/live-tonight...
September 22, 2025 at 3:27 AM
OK so one candidate was absent (Anthony Ascue, A Better Calgary Party) but five of the six Ward 7 candidates were there. Available to watch anytime. www.sprawlcalgary.com/live-tonight...
Sooo... this happened today! And 15 of these are recurring members. Well on our way to our campaign goal of 80. Support our independent Calgary journalism as we keep digging into the municipal election! sprawlcalgary.fundjournalism.org/donate/
September 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Sooo... this happened today! And 15 of these are recurring members. Well on our way to our campaign goal of 80. Support our independent Calgary journalism as we keep digging into the municipal election! sprawlcalgary.fundjournalism.org/donate/
Join us Saturday, May 10, outside the Village Square Leisure Centre library in Pineridge! We'll be on site with our pop-up press from 1 to 3pm with a special bit of Village Square history for you to print.
(Photos from last weekend's pop-up by the Glenmore Reservoir)
(Photos from last weekend's pop-up by the Glenmore Reservoir)
May 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Join us Saturday, May 10, outside the Village Square Leisure Centre library in Pineridge! We'll be on site with our pop-up press from 1 to 3pm with a special bit of Village Square history for you to print.
(Photos from last weekend's pop-up by the Glenmore Reservoir)
(Photos from last weekend's pop-up by the Glenmore Reservoir)
We publish Sprawlcast, Calgary's in-depth municipal podcast. We also publish Curious Calgary, a comics series by @calgaryhester.bsky.social. In all of it, we want to connect Calgarians with their city through in-depth, curiosity-driven journalism. Thus we are hopeful about this platform!
November 14, 2024 at 4:34 PM
We publish Sprawlcast, Calgary's in-depth municipal podcast. We also publish Curious Calgary, a comics series by @calgaryhester.bsky.social. In all of it, we want to connect Calgarians with their city through in-depth, curiosity-driven journalism. Thus we are hopeful about this platform!
Hello to all our new followers! We're a small Calgary news outlet focused on municipal issues. Transit, housing, city hall politics. We take a "slow journalism" approach so we can dig deep, one story at a time. Check us out (no paywall!) at sprawlcalgary.com! #calgary #yyc
November 14, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Hello to all our new followers! We're a small Calgary news outlet focused on municipal issues. Transit, housing, city hall politics. We take a "slow journalism" approach so we can dig deep, one story at a time. Check us out (no paywall!) at sprawlcalgary.com! #calgary #yyc