Took their spreadsheet data and made my own conclusions.
Removed:
New Cars (didn't care), Population Growth (didn't care), Weather (seems way off) and Culture (too ambiguous and seems way, way off)
Adjusted:
Everything else that remains gets an equal weighting...
Walk/Bike, Housing, Income, Discretionary, Crime, Doctors, Jobless
These factors seem to have less ambiguity to me, and there's probably some actual decent stats available for them.
Result:
Top 15 places to live:
1. Canmore, AB
2. Ottawa, ON
3. Kingston, ON
4. Calgary, AB
5. Strathcona County,
6. Saanich, BC
7. Lacombe, AB
8. High River, AB
9. Burlington, ON
10. Yellowknife, NT
11. Edmonton, AB
12. Stratford, ON
13. St. Albert, AB
14. Strathmore, AB
15. Halifax, NS
And no I didn't play around with the data until Calgary moved up
Just used the data I felt was less ambiguous and then gave them all equal weighting.
spreadsheet:
http://www.2shared.com/document/XM9V...live_2012.html