Western Standard - July 25, 2025


City of Calgary forces woman to remove child’s swing


Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

130.75471

Word count

231

Sentence count

8


Summary

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The City of Calgary is asking a woman to remove a small swing hanging from one of the branches of a big tree steps from her house in the West Hillhurst neighbourhood. What do you want the city to do about that? Um, not remove childhood swings.

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00:00:00.080 The City of Calgary is asking a woman to remove a small swing hanging from one of the branches
00:00:05.840 of a big tree steps from her house in the West Hillhurst neighborhood.
00:00:11.520 On Wednesday, I came home from work to find a violation, a notice in my mailbox
00:00:18.720 with instructions that this tree swing is in violation of a tree protection order
00:00:24.800 and needs to be removed immediately. The next day there was a peace officer at my door less than
00:00:31.760 24 hours after issuing the notice informing me that I had not yet removed the swing and could be fined
00:00:41.120 and he proceeded to remove the swing for me. I'm disappointed that the City is so aggressive in
00:00:49.040 enforcing these violations when there's a lot of other things that are going on that I think the
00:00:53.920 City could be spending their time on, whether that is making sure packages aren't stolen off of
00:01:00.400 people's front porch, there's garage break-ins, bike thefts, somehow being so diligent about enforcing
00:01:08.400 a tree protection order and removing a childhood swing. It surprises me that that's the priority of the City.
00:01:17.520 What do you want the City to do about that?
00:01:19.520 Um, not remove childhood swings. In an email to the Western Standard, the City says the swing needs to
00:01:29.600 be removed for two reasons, an enforcement and parks perspective. Tula Mazloum, Western Standard.