Naheed Nenshi at TEDxCalgary

[@VictorPanlilio]

I saw Mayor-elect Nenshi give this presentation live at TEDxCalgary. It was one of the most impressive, educational presentations I've ever seen. I hope he'll be able to inspire our new city council, the city hall organisation, and the citizens of Calgary to build a sustainable 21st-century city.

[@karan6]

Watching Naheed an not saying this as another fellow "brown" person he is so relatable actually seems like someone I a 19 year old college student can listen to an not get bored of I hope he wins I am definitely gonna be voting for NENSHI!

[@redleaf07]

Looks like just what we need, a thoughtful, research based, sensible mayor with the good of the whole city in mind. I've seen what happens in places where neighbourhoods are divided by class. The rich spend a large chunk of their wealth on security and the poor live in squalor. You don't have to go too far to see the "gated communities" that result from this. Let's not let Calgary start heading down that road. Nenshi's got my vote!

[@alnasirrajan1]

We need to see beyond into how to unite the city. Naheed is representing us as a people so do not feed false ideas that will divide us. He has worked hard for it and now has an opportunity to make a difference. Wish him well as he wishes us well too.

[@theegger5405]

So organized, eloquent, and meticulous. Clearly there is a reason Ric McIver and Barb Higgins declined to be in a televised debate with the man, because he actually has something substantial to say.

[@davelowe7729]

Best Mayor Calgary ever had its a shame that some nobrains disagreed with his commonsensical ideas .He has always been on point . I would always guit clickin channels to hear what this extremely intellectual person would have to say on any level . Calgary if you ever decide to create a legacy fer this Mayor make sure that no shadow covers his greatness . This man is what the whole world needs now . If you look up common and sense and logic you will find this fine mans face posted under all 3 .

[@iconsumedmt1350]

Sheeple like you is why freedom in the west is dead

[@vinkogrgic]

This is great stuff Nenshi, and so interesting. Calgary, listen to this man and don't head down "that" road!

[@elementInfinitium]

He's obviously very intelligent. I actually had him teach me Globalization at Mount Royal University. I have to say that he would be a very good choice for leading Calgary forward on a reasonable and attainable route. I also really like that he wants to decrease poverty worldwide [and in Calgary, of course]. I think this is vital, as even CHILDREN are living in poverty, in fact, 1 out of 6 children in Canada live in poverty. That's embarrassing on a global scale and unethical as humans.

[@_Kerberos_]

I sincerely hope that Nenshi is able to change Calgary for the better, he sounded like the most researched and thoughtful of all the candidates. Hopefully he'll do an awesome job, and all the rascists and religious regressives will have nothing to say against him.

[@gordonmcdowell]

@popcan4u Board audio was overmodulated from time to time. When that happend, I had to use a hand-held camera audio. Best I could do.

[@MrMASSEYJONES]

The reason why there isn't any residential development eastward around the middle is that the area is most sloughs, with land mostly suitable only for warehouses and heavy industry. Have a good look at Google Earth around 50th Ave and 52 St SE. That is where those geese feed, that we see over Galgary as they fly in vees periodically over the summer

[@AstroAuthor]

And people who say he is overweight, check out Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto. Nenshi is what every politician should be no matter their party.

[@Torontopia]

Great video! Congratulations Calgary, you made a good choice. I hope Toronto does as well in our upcoming election.

[@BeNimbleYou]

This is amazing. Nenshi is a great mayor. I would love to hear an updated Tedtalk based on where we are now as a city.

[@BuiltinCalgary]

It would be great to get a perspective on how the City of Calgary plan is incorporating the 3 D's of a community. Look forward to a 2016 update. As a realtor (you can agree/disagree) Mayor Nenshi provides a platform to have a discussion. While working with a buyer in the N.E. it was interesting to see a cricket pitch instead of a ball diamond in the N.E.

[@TheCrimsonMavrick]

I find it interesting that the mayor of Calgary leaves a closing comment about findinga way to reach those voices that cannot be heard. Then when those voices find a way to reach him, there is an injunction filed against them to remove them from the plaza. I'm not sure I understand how that is an attempt to reach those voices?

[@IntegralBif]

Nenshi just gets it. Do we ever need a prime minister like him, Harper, Mulcaire, Trudeau and even Elizabeth certainly DON'T get it. Honest communication and steady citizen engagement is more valuable then just making the right decisions. We need to know above all the reasoning behind the choices our leaders make. Even a decision we don't like would be acceptable if there is a good reason for it. Nenshi knows this, that a leader MUST be an educator. He gives us back agency over our politics.

[@GsunnyGGamer]

@Joe Schmoe And by ur logic Christians don't belong anywhere outside of Europe.

[@RalfLippold]

Awesome! Thx @Richard_Florida | Calgary 3.0 as the role model for #Dresden 3.0 :-) Just one D short to fill up the Three-D's: DD+D ;-)

[@Drakkenfyre1]

Excellent video. Only problem with it is that his recreational facility map was only of one kind of facility, which is stand-alone arenas. However, in the NE, where I live, we have lots of arenas, but they're part of mixed-use facilities. There's a leisure centre / wave pool / gym / arena that wasn't on the map. There was a pool / gym / arena that wasn't on the map. And so on. And, frankly, stand-alone arenas are approprate to where rich people live. Hockey is expensive.

[@phenej]

@SandwhichDepartment you will be voting in the next election no worries. You can have tremendous influence if you can get others to vote...only about 30% voted in the last municipal election! Even better if you decide to get them to vote for this fellow, the only one in the top 3 arguing over a $3 billion budget who went to university...

[@GamerconnectionVSM]

the majority of calgary did not vote for nenshi

[@DollHouseRealEstate]

wow... thoughtull discussion! You have my vote!

[@relcychoho]

there are many ways to cut costs for the average home owner - get rid of existing method of determining home value - property taxes... by lot size regardless of estimated worth of home...1/2 acre or less - 10 %... anything more could be 15%; with the idea that those people are wealthier... get rid of those corporate assessors who poke around our houses and lots and disrupt our peace of mind... I estimate the city could save 10 million a year immediately

[@HaloAngelBoy]

Why does the sound seem to bounce around from time to time (eg, its like it comes from the mic sometimes and from some echo-y microphone in the back corner of a concrete room sometimes) ?

[@FlavoursofAfrica]

Amazing!

[@cedude69]

It's not a wonder Canada is going to hell!!

[@mrbillmacneill]

the opponents declined to debate this fellow? chickens....

[@Mathgodpi]

@ambustion hmm, if that's the worst thing we can come up with to say about nenshi's campaign, then the guy isn't doing too shabby! Quite frankly, I think we found our mayor!

[@bluejeanss]

i think he's got it

[@rupydisease]

Amazing and brilliant guy, I'd definitely vote for him again! A little disappointed in the quality of audio for a TedxTalk.

[@vapssu]

@EF2000CanFly I'm a athiest but i don't attack any other belief simply because they differ from mine. If you can't stand opinions that differ from your own, it isn't that something is wrong with everyone else, it is that something is wrong with you.

[@miramirov7476]

salaam from Russia ..

[@devious222]

@Knight99less Describe what a true Calgarian is. My parents came to Calgary in the 70s and suffered awful discrimination, meanwhile my father was an architect and worked harder than anyone I've met and helped build this city with his own sweat and blood. He is more Calgarian than most who claim to be Calgarian. Yet you think you have more rights just because your family has lived here longer? Immigrants work just as hard to build this city as anyone else. And most don't take it for granted.

[@madbull338]

This is 2013 he doesn't have to hide the fact that he is gay I bet he will tell everyone when his term is up.

[@rickykokhar960]

Weston Dennis how do you know that?

[@glottis5]

you'd expect a rob ford type to be mayor of calgary and a guy like this to be mayor of toronto. wierd world

[@Roboticpycotic]

In Brazil no one has to stand at a bus stop in -25c for 4 weeks straight every year wondering when a car is going to slide off the road into him. The problem with Calgary is it is a horrible shaped city to begin with for a city built on a plain. Deer foot the roads this city relies on most, is flawed, making much too sharp of turns for its 100km speed limit. County roads with curve: reduce speed 50km. Deerfoot identical curve: reduce speed 5km.

[@WINZ0W]

Wow. That was refreshing to eat from a Calgarian.

[@naksus2]

Civic Engagement! you mocked protesters and had NO PART in the civil resolution of occupy Calgary! Practice what you Preach!

[@DollHouseRealEstate]

@OwnerofaTimexWatch.... My guess from the proponderance and visceral tone of Mr. Watches comments is that you are the vehnerable Mr. Craig Chandler.

[@seventheleven]

Buddy still hasn't approved Uber or Lyft. Meanwhile the cabs in Calgary still suck.

[@TheTTBT]

Get off your ass.

[@TheTTBT]

Get yourself an UBER today, Ralph Klein.

[@gerald02121]

@jsimaluk you're very right, and that is disappointing. Overall though, it doesn't affect the overall point of his message: notice there are still few to no facilities to the upper side of the new red line, and most of the ones that would have been above the original red line, are close to the downtown core and do not venture very far above the original red line. It's too bad he didn't just draw the same line though... would have still supported his argument.

[@kcharlesblakey]

@10Kernel01 What he said.

[@brianlacroix822]

Not all immigrants are the problems, just the immigrants from ontario that move to asspen and airdrie.

[@VeryWittyComment]

@bluejeanss Only if all of us get out to the polls and VOTE

[@brianlacroix822]

@OwnerofaTimexWatch You have been a member for one day. You must be working for........Hawkesworth? I don't remember Nenshi saying "conspiracy" in the video.

[@EF2000CanFly]

@10Kernel01 yes he is

[@makrenee]

I'm from Calgary originally and have had the chance to live in TO and Van and honestly Calgary is actually very progressive.. It'll take a while for Calgary to shake its rep as a podunk, conservative backwater city - but hopefully people can see past their own judgements and realize that the mayor is was elected by the residents and is representative of the cultural shift in the city. I'm sick of always having to defend Calgary when in Van and TO....all these cities are great in their own way.

[@TurdDoodlesworth]

@garycalgary Keen observation. You must be like smart or something.

[@madbull338]

neighborhoods are what you make of it.

[@shanes4128]

worst mayor ever

[@raprockprof]

Increasing engagement. Occupy in Olympic Park was all about citizens wanting to engage with the community from our own public park. You responded with police state harassment. No, Mayor Nenshi, you did not do a credible job hearing the voices of your community. No access to electricity, water cleaning oneself. No heat'...A complete denial of the most fundamental principles of universal human rights. You talk out of both sides of your mouth, Mayor.

[@Mathgodpi]

@pepper9876543 if you think he's so irrelevant, then why did you even bother to post here?

[@KellyLee-nu4ry]

I'd love to talk with Cowboy SmithX .... Anyone?

[@vapssu]

@EF2000CanFly better than being insane

[@shanefage5218]

1) You have misused and apostrophe several times in a single sentence. If you want your ideas and opinions to be taken seriously, research the proper use of the apostrophe. 2) Railway is a compound word. Walkway is a compound word. 3) Learn the difference between your (pronoun) and you're (contraction) 4) Do you have spell check activated? You misspelled "tendency". Peter O'toole: "If a man does not know how to say what he means, he will never mean what he says".

[@SandwhichDepartment]

I'm 14, I have looked at the remaining candidate's platforms, nothing seems as clear and strong as his. You don't need to be able to vote to have an opinion.

[@universalradio]

I live close to Glenmore Reservoir, between 2 of the richest neighbourhoods in Calgary. I have a fortress mentality - can't stand my neighbours. They're judgmental. I'm white, but I don't make a ton of money, and I don't fit the norm. I would WELCOME a diverse neighbourhood here. Bring it on.

[@rken23]

@OwnerofaTimexWatch haha for starters look up communism, then perhaps you can comment on it. You must have watched this video with a blindfold on and plugs in your ears. Listen and see though your preconceived bias. You may learn something. And lastly i'll leave the name calling to you, i wouldn't want to hijack your only tool for argument.

[@ardvarq9027]

you sound like a commie.

[@PanchoQV]

I cannot STAND the audio situation of this video...

[@PaurRoo777]

Its cause the frog in his voice that never goes away

[@shanefage5218]

How many screw-ups can you make in a single sentence? How many in a single word? You screwed up TWICE in a single word. In two syllables, you have two mistakes. quote: rail way's, walk way's, road way's ( I am going to presume you missed inserting the apostrophe incorrectly in "road way's"). How can you screw up TWICE in a single two syllable word?.... SEVERAL times... in a single sentence?

[@GeraldReynolds]

So, he's a Muslim you say. Well, is he an Islamic does he follow the ravings of Mohammad or not? That is the question I ask because they are two different creatures the Muslim and the Islamic. One is a culture or way of life the other is a religion , a follower of a madman. So which is he??

[@brianlacroix822]

LOL. Free electricity and hot showers for people in parks are fundamental human rights? Stop insulting the cause for human rights by associating your irrational demands with real human rights issues. And how does camping in a park accomplish the vague ambiguous cause of "engaging with the community from our own public park"?

[@WayneNeon]

So not Rob Ford

[@RaymundoHB]

Pretty good Talk

[@loftymuses]

I love how it seems to be a goal to make the city, explicitly "non-white".

[@TerminalLanceOfficial]

So true

[@Watermark0n]

OMG THERE ARE BROWN PEOPLE OH THE HUMANITY

[@TheHappydays82]

@@Watermark0n Yet there are so few white people in "brown" countries. You cant deny that "diversity" is one sided.

[@cheegum6296]

@@TheHappydays82 they call em military bases

[@P3RSIANs]

Without a doubt Nenshi himself knew that there's no way to have won the Calgary elections based on the typical campaigning. For anyone who can't connect the two, a minority/muslim mayor and a traditionally white, backwards, population, all it comes down to is the fact that he was able to tap into the dormant youth and immigrant portion of the population. That being said, I'm disgusted at the shit that's being said in the comments. Why is a man's religion the first thing that's seen?

[@ambustion]

Come on at least get some poor film student to cut this together so you're not detracting from your message with terrible audio. Interesting video other than that.

[@devious222]

@Knight99less That was not my point. The point is that you are wrongly assuming that Calgary has gotten worse because of people who came "after the fact". Unless you can point to substantial evidence that people who have recently moved here are less likely to positively contribute to this city then I am under no obligation to take your statement as anything more than a biased assumption. If anything, what you are against laziness and this is a societal problem globally.

[@TurdDoodlesworth]

what the fuck is wrong with the sound.

[@intralemma]

@pepper9876543 please include something constructive to your criticism.

[@intralemma]

@pepper9876543 Because all you are doing is writing empty slander.

[@jbc22112]

This is social engineering. LA actually became great city (it's horrible now because of Democrats but that's a different story). The point is, everybody knows LA, nobody knows Curitiba. Also, people tend to live where they fit. I saw these rich neighbourhoods and I'm glad they exist. They're peaceful, beautiful and inspiring. You won't achieve that if you put all kinds of people into the neighbourhood. People are amazed by this speech but I'm not impressed. He's a socialist, plus he doesn't like rich, white people and it shows.

[@MrJASKARAN101]

Boo

[@AstroAuthor]

I hope he did get that nap...

[@emmygee2156]

Lol wat?

[@brianlacroix822]

@pepper9876543 you got nothing. still.