Jobs. Taxes. Access to women's health care. South Calgary residents share what matters this election

Elise Stolte · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 15, 2025 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

The apical contented for voters successful Seton isn't  tariffs, astatine slightest not among the room patrons who stopped by to speech with CBC Calgary's The Homestretch recently. 

Tariffs person dominated headlines this campaign. But jobs, taxes and the terms of groceries dominated the sticky notes connected the CBC's whiteboard astatine a pop-up engagement effort Thursday afternoon.

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Homestretch host Jenny Howe broadcast unrecorded from the room successful Seton each afternoon, and radical stopped by to constitute astir the contented that matters the astir to them successful the national election, and however it volition signifier their vote. 

Adrian Diaz is simply a pupil astatine the University of Calgary. After penning a fewer notes, helium explained it this way. "The outgo of surviving has gone up. The state prices person conscionable skyrocketed up. Honestly, I retrieve erstwhile it utilized to beryllium 70 cents, it was crazy.… Now it's similar $1.50. Utilities, groceries, each the elemental worldly has gone up, for sure," helium said. 

"I person an thought of who I privation to support, definitely. Because 10 years of the aforesaid thing, I deliberation it's clip to change." 

The Seton room is successful the YCMA recreation centre, which is southbound of the ringing roadworthy and eastbound of Deerfoot Trail connected the southeast borderline of Calgary. It's successful the Calgary Shepard riding. 

In the library, immoderate radical had already decided who they are voting for, others were inactive making up their minds and waiting for the leaders' debate. Many radical wrote astir wanting little taxes and to find a mode to trim the terms of houses.

One idiosyncratic wrote astir wanting taxation dollars to spell to warring homelessness and hunger present successful Canada earlier funds are allocated to helping overseas.

But that's not what Lamar Hassan is hoping for. She is 15 and watching the predetermination from the sidelines. She said what she wants is to spot the parties absorption much connected overseas argumentation and however they tin assistance different places specified arsenic Ukraine and Gaza.

"We're capable to assistance truthful we should beryllium aiding more," she said. "I consciousness for people. Everyone deserves to person a bully life, and arsenic idiosyncratic whose parents came present from a antithetic country, they came present for maine to person a amended beingness and everyone merit to person that chance." 

Moana Rae Michelbrink Rhynold is present 18 and volition beryllium voting for the archetypal time. She said the issues she's pursuing the astir are the outgo of lodging and entree to reproductive health.

"I've been engaged successful my ain satellite but I've heard snippets. The biggest happening is however the Conservative run has leaned a batch toward what's been happening successful the States successful presumption of women's entree to wellness care. That's the biggest happening that's scaring me."

On Friday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre touched on this connected the run trail. He was asked astir a section candidate's views and said that, if elected, a Conservative authorities would not restrict entree to abortion.

Since CBC News was asking "what matters to you," children besides stopped by to person their say. Many of them volition ballot astatine schoolhouse successful a parallel student election, adjacent though it won't number for the wide election.

Jasmine Jones, 8, wrote "focus connected the environment" and stuck that to the whiteboard to stock with her neighbours. 

She said: "I deliberation they should absorption connected the situation much due to the fact that there's tons of litter connected the Earth and its poisoning the environment."