Adam Macvicar

The City of Calgary has used artificial intelligence to determine the 50 riskiest intersections for pedestrians across the city, but it's unclear what will be done to address the issue as just half are recommended for upgrades.

The North Calgary Water Servicing project will deliver 100 million litres of drinking water to northside communities when it's complete in 2029, city officials said Tuesday.

Although it isn't the water main at the centre of Calgarians' attention, a major piece of infrastructure for the city's northern neighbourhoods has received a multi-million dollar boost from the federal government.

The figures were included in a number of confidential, preliminary budget documents obtained by Global News after being presented to Calgary city council earlier this summer.

Any spending requests for city council to consider are simply part of a “wishlist,” according to Calgary's mayor, as fallout continues at city hall over the leak of preliminary budget documents.

“This is a wishlist. Everybody comes out of the woodwork around budget time and asks for all of the stuff,” Farkas said.

Calgary city council will take part in a special meeting behind closed doors to seek legal advice, after a trove of confidential and preliminary budget documents were obtained by Global News.

A city committee has selected its preferred path for the Green Line LRT to travel through Calgary's downtown core, after nearly two years of back and forth on the project's alignment.

Despite his optimism about the city's future, Calgary's mayor isn't shying away from tough decisions in the upcoming city budget, including the need for a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure investment.

Calgary is one of the few major Canadian cities where the supply gap to restore pre-pandemic housing affordability levels has narrowed, according