By the numbers: Calgary’s year in review …
We’ve come a long way since millions of litres of water washed over Calgary, zero people had ever used the term “bitumen bubble,” Naheed Nenshi was a first-term mayor and a great Calgarian skated around with No. 12 on his back.
Here’s how 2013 looked to the Herald, in other numbers:
31: Flames games Jarome Iginla played last season before being traded to Pittsburgh.
12: Iginla’s jersey number — likely to be hung from the Saddledome rafters before the Flames hoist another championship banner.
31: Flames games played this season before the team got its 12th win.
$32: The gap (in U.S. dollars) between the price of Texas crude and oilsands crude Jan. 24, the day Premier Alison Redford first used the term “bitumen bubble.” $15: The gap in July. $32.70: The gap in late November.
$23.25: The gap on Christmas Eve.
$3.4 billion: Oilsands royalty revenue the province expects this budget year (depending on the price gap roller-coaster).
$3.9 billion: Revenue from federal health and social transfers Alberta expects, no matter what.
77%-23%: The gap between Tory delegates who endorsed Premier Alison Redford and those who wanted a leadership review.
32%-52%: The gap between Albertans who approved of and disapproved of Redford, according to a
September opinion poll by Leger.
10: The number of Alberta Health Services board directors in June.
10: AHS directors dismissed in June by Health Minister Fred Horne, unhappy at the “pay-at-risk” executive bonuses the board approved.
5: AHS executives dismissed in September, after the new board (a.k.a. administrator Janet Davidson) reviewed governance.
3: Interim CEOs the health su- perauthority has had since October, when Dr. Chris Eagle left after three years in charge. Two are currently serving.
1: AHS executives who turned down the controversial bonus pay at Horne’s urging, and is a sibling of Alison Redford.
98: AHS executives who took the pay as entitled, and are not directly related to Redford.
45 and 46: Two labour bills the province passed on wildcat strike threats and bargaining rights.
0,0, 1,1: Percentage wage increases over four years Tories can impose under Bill 46 if provincial employees don’t reach deal by Jan. 31.
1: Days after bargaining that bill became law that Alberta Union of Provincial Employees filed legal challenge to strike it down.
15: Years since any CFL player rushed for more than 1,813 yards, like Stampeder Jon Cornish did this year.
35: Years since any Canadian won the CFL’s most outstanding player award, like Cornish did this year.
44: Years since any CFL player won the Lou Marsh Award as Canada’s top athlete, like Cornish did this year.
1,302: Days between when Enbridge made application for Northern Gateway pipeline and National Energy Board panel issued its report in support.
209: Conditions the NEB placed on its support of the pipeline to Kitimat, B.C.
$950 million: Size of the spill insurance coverage policy Enbridge must carry.
45: First Nations bands along pipeline route.
10%: The equity stake in the pipeline that Enbridge is offering aboriginal groups.
$70,500: The estimated annual net income from the equity deal that one band is expected to receive, according to Canadian Press. Enbridge said that’s on the low end.
3: Other major pipeline projects in the, ahem, pipeline: Keystone XL to United States, Energy East to Maritimes, Trans Mountain to Burnaby.
3: Consecutive years that the Giller Prize-winning author has had Alberta roots — either living or born here. Edmonton’s Lynn Coady won in 2013.
4: Consecutive years that no Juno Awards went to Nickelback.
39.6%: Percentage of votes cast for Naheed Nenshi in 2010 mayoral election
0.4%: Percentage of votes cast for Jon Lord in 2010
74%: Percentage of votes cast for Nenshi in 2013
21%: Percentage of votes cast for Lord in 2013
3,721: How many fewer votes Ward 8 alderman John Mar got than in 2010. He lost his seat.
1,082: How many more votes Ward 4 alderman Gael MacLeod officially got than in 2010. She lost her seat.
30: Years it’s been since somebody other than Dale Hodges represented Ward 1. He retired.
220: Music sets cancelled when Sled Island shut down on the Friday of the flood.
70%: Percentage of festival expenses that were non-refundable, and contributed to a $200,000 loss.
70%: Percentage of Sled Island pass-holders that declined a full refund or donated refund to Calgary arts.
$52 million: Size of the tax increase city council approved in April to occupy provincial “tax room.”
51 million: Estimated number of times the dollar figure was mentioned in articles during a year-long public debate over how to spend it.
3: Different uses approved by council for the money. Flood recovery for first instalment, rebate for second, transit for the next 10.
8-7: How council’s vote split on devoting $520 million on southeast and north-central transitway instead of returning money to taxpayers.
8 years, 5 months: Ralph Klein’s tenure as Calgary mayor.
$300 million, $1.7 billion: Size of the city’s debt when Klein became mayor and when he left.
14 years: Ralph Klein’s tenure as Alberta premier.
$20 billion, 0: Alberta’s fiscal debt when Klein became premier and when he left.
6 years, 4 months: Klein’s time spent in retirement, before dementia and lung disease claimed him in March. He was 70.
80,000: Calgarians ordered to evacuate homes during the flood.
8: Calgary households still relying on Calgary Housing Company after flood displacement, as of early December.
$1.7 billion: Insured property losses in the flood, making it Canada’s costliest disaster.
$445 million: Tally of city infrastructure damages suffered in the flood. Some are insurable.
634: High River residents living in temporary trailer neighbourhoods at Saddlebrook and in southeast Calgary.
60%: Percentage of Alberta homeowners in the floodway that didn’t express interest in the province’s buyout offer.
24: Weeks the Calgary Zoo was closed or partially closed during the flood.
13: Days before Stampede gates were scheduled to open after the Elbow River flooded the grounds.
0: Days the Stampede was delayed.
150,000: “Come Hell or High Water” shirts the Stampede sold by the festival’s end, to benefit Red Cross flood fund.