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Ricky Leong

Calgary Sun

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Leong: How to make Calgary Transit easier to use? Start with fixing fares, ticket validation

02.09.2025 5

Calgary Sun

Ricky Leong

Leong: How to make Calgary Transit easier to use? Start with fixing fares, ticket validation

Leong: How to make Calgary Transit easier to use? Start with fixing fares, ticket validation

A litany of little irritants can make public transport less appealing to ride than it could be

02.09.2025 10

Calgary Herald

Ricky Leong

Leong: Beware any politician who offers easy solutions to complex problems

25.08.2025 10

Edmonton Sun

Ricky Leong

Leong: Beware any politician who offers easy solutions to complex problems

25.08.2025 10

Calgary Sun

Ricky Leong

Leong: Beware any politician who offers easy solutions to complex problems

Fixing one issue in isolation almost never enough to tackle larger challenges

25.08.2025 20

Calgary Herald

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Leong: Social media madness and misinformation spread like wildfire

12.08.2025 10

Edmonton Sun

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Leong: Social media madness and misinformation spread like wildfire

11.08.2025 10

Calgary Sun

Ricky Leong

Leong: Social media madness and misinformation spread like wildfire

Nonsense can travel just as fast as the news — sometimes even faster

11.08.2025 10

Calgary Herald

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Leong: A swing and a miss for some complaints against City of Calgary

31.07.2025 3

Calgary Sun

Ricky Leong

Leong: A swing and a miss for some complaints against City of Calgary

From bylaw enforcement to necessary utility work, people at the city are just doing their jobs

31.07.2025 4

Calgary Herald

Ricky Leong

Leong: A swing and a miss for some complaints against City of Calgary

28.07.2025 9

Calgary Sun

Ricky Leong

Leong: A swing and a miss for some complaints against City of Calgary

From bylaw enforcement to necessary utility work, people at the city are just doing their jobs

28.07.2025 10

Calgary Herald

Ricky Leong

Leong: When it comes to bicycle infrastructure, province should stay in its own lane

07.07.2025 9

Calgary Sun

Ricky Leong

Leong: When it comes to bicycle infrastructure, province should stay in its own lane

Alberta government all over the place when it comes to views on road capacity

07.07.2025 10

Calgary Herald

Ricky Leong

Leong: When politicians putting money back in your pocket doesn't really save you money

09.06.2025 10

Calgary Sun

Ricky Leong

Leong: When politicians putting money back in your pocket doesn't really save you money

Opportunistic politicians want to sound good by offering you a tax cut. Sounds like a good deal but sometimes, it isn't

09.06.2025 10

Calgary Herald

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Leong: Hudson's Bay is dead but its aspirations can live on to help build Canada

02.06.2025 10

Calgary Sun

Ricky Leong

Leong: Hudson's Bay is dead but its aspirations can live on to help build Canada

How Canada today can inspire itself from the Hudson's Bay Company of the late 19th century, which sought to drive economic development in the West

02.06.2025 10

Calgary Herald

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Leong: Plan for paid parking at Edworthy Park unworthy of consideration

27.05.2025 10

Calgary Herald

Ricky Leong

Leong: Plan for paid parking at Edworthy Park unworthy of consideration

26.05.2025 4

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Danielle Smith tries to stay politically clean while stoking talk of Alberta separation. It won't work

13.05.2025 10

Calgary Sun

Ricky Leong

Leong: Danielle Smith tries to stay politically clean while stoking talk of Alberta separation. It won't work

13.05.2025 4

Edmonton Sun

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Leong: What did we learn from federal leaders' debates? Not much

21.04.2025 10

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Viscount Bennett redevelopment debate reveals tired excuses against densification

15.04.2025 20

Calgary Sun

Ricky Leong

Leong: City of Calgary's Cowboys Park consultation is pure bovine manure

08.04.2025 10

Calgary Sun

Ricky Leong

LEONG: Danielle Smith's U.S. tariffs diplomacy needs a reset

02.04.2025 10

Calgary Sun

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Leong: CTrains get shorter because politicians keep shorting transit

25.03.2025 8

Calgary Sun

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Leong: A letter to our American neighbours

17.03.2025 20

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Facing threats from Trump administration, Canada must cement other friendships

10.03.2025 10

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Trump’s trade war with Canada makes no sense — and it’s not supposed to

04.02.2025 8

Calgary Sun

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Leong: We share our streets — and the responsibility to keep them safe

20.01.2025 9

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Politicians need to stop weaponizing their own paycheques

13.01.2025 8

Calgary Sun

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Leong: How do you screw up a tax cut? Trudeau Liberals do just that with GST holiday

06.01.2025 10

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Pedestrian crash shows need to alter approach and attitude on road safety

30.12.2024 5

Calgary Sun

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Leong: With Alberta's Green Line report and ultimatum, Calgary faces impossible choice

23.12.2024 5

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Why the Green Line and other transit projects have seen costs balloon

16.12.2024 4

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Glenmore Landing controversy shows need for more conversations on sustainable growth

10.12.2024 3

Calgary Sun

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Leong: How can Calgary build a CTrain tunnel downtown? A 54-year-old report has answers

02.12.2024 5

Calgary Sun

Ricky Leong

Leong: City should do more to clear snow for Calgary Transit buses

25.11.2024 6

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Foreign interference isn't limited to politics. It's happening every time we go online

Much has been written in recent history about the ramifications of foreign interference on Canadian politics. The focus has been deservedly placed...

19.11.2024 10

Edmonton Sun

Ricky Leong

Leong: Foreign interference isn't limited to politics. It's happening every time we go online

18.11.2024 5

Calgary Sun

Ricky Leong

Leong: Shady tow truck operators prey on victims thanks to government inaction

As stories pile up about unscrupulous tow truck drivers swooping in at the site of auto crash scenes, politicians are right to step up to the...

17.11.2024 5

Edmonton Sun

Ricky Leong

Leong: Shady tow truck operators prey on victims thanks to government inaction

14.11.2024 10

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Olympic Plaza redevelopment must be stopped until bricks are made part of revamp

04.11.2024 3

Calgary Sun

Ricky Leong

Leong: Federal electric bus incentive leaves Calgary Transit shortchanged

21.10.2024 4

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Politicians can forget about saving face over Green Line fiasco

15.10.2024 6

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Photo radar can be an effective road safety tool — if used properly

07.10.2024 5

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Safeworks controversy shows needs to close gap between drug treatment and harm reduction

30.09.2024 4

Calgary Sun

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Leong: Widespread political failure led to Green Line's catastrophic collapse

23.09.2024 3

Calgary Sun

Ricky Leong

Leong: Want to run Green Line trains on 7th Avenue? Forget it — there's no more room

16.09.2024 3

Calgary Sun

Ricky Leong