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Old 02-02-2014, 07:36 PM   #1494
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My favourite thing about the peace bridge whiners, is that one of their main arguments was literally "It won't make Calgary class city, so there's no point".

Then, the New York Times named Calgary one of 50 places to travel to this year, and displayed and mentioned the peace bridge as part of a huge transition from a sleepy prairie city to a cultural hub, lol.
And articles like that will also help Calgary become "world class"

One of the things IMO that helps show that Calgary is indeed "world class" or at least very close to it is the Flames alumni association. I was chatting with Rene Corbet a couple weeks ago and he was saying the alumni association has 120 some former NHL players involved in it, a number of whom never even played for the Flames but they came to Calgary after their careers because of how great of a city it is. These are guys that could live anywhere they wanted including a number of cities that are without question world class and they still choose Calgary.
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