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Originally Posted by Rutuu
Read the article and appreciate you posting it, but its hard to take any politician that signed that arena deal seriously. Also they rank their education facilities as their largest growth sector? Has he seen a report that deals with Canadian GDP growth and its correlation with the oil sands?
I'm still in disbelief how Edmonton can piss away so many guaranteed city building advantages. The U of A predates U of C by decades, they had the first major oil discovery at Leduc #1, they have the capital for Alberta and all the ancillary services, they have the refineries, they retained their military base when Calgary's was shut down, etc, etc...hard to believe given that kind of head start that Calgary was able to out pace them. I see it as a testament of the quality of politicians and what the citizens demand from them.
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FYI - Refineries arent in Edmonton. They are in the county of Strathcona (in case you wonder why property taxes in Sherwood Park are so much cheaper than in Edmonton).