If you want the real story about why residents in one of Canada’s biggest cities have for weeks been under orders to ration their water usage, you won’t get it from Calgary’s mayor or city bureaucrats. As veteran Postmedia journalist Don Braid tells Brian Lilley in this week’s episode, the catastrophic water-main break is a tale of municipal mismanagement, inferior infrastructure and wilful political blindness. And, Braid says, the same factors — including a whole lot of disintegrating water pipes — are lurking in a lot of other cities, maybe even yours, just waiting to burst open. (Recorded June 20, 2024.)

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