The city of Calgary has a $52m windfall. How do you think they should spend it? Have your say online!
www.calgary.ca/52million
I suppose there's a lot of people here who will write in:
"Give it to the billionaire owners of the Flames, so they can build 1/20th of their new arena/stadium, to help them rake in money faster than they currently do."
Seriously, I cannot believe there are so many people who seriously think that the best possible use of hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds is to build a new arena for a private company, because the line ups for beer and nachos at the current one are too long.
Hmm.
New MRI scanners at every major hospital? Cardiac intervention suites? New STARS helicopters? More surgical staff to cut wait times? Reducing the environmental impact of the tar sands? Diversifying Calgary's economic base?
Not worth it, man, not when we could be paying Murray Edwards hundreds of millions so he can build a building that holds twice as many mini-donut stands.