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Originally Posted by ComixZone
Yeah, I mean...with a provincial government snubbing the economic machine that drives Alberta, and the municipal government getting into pissing matches on Twitter and acting like a 6 year old in front of cameras...Calgarians, and Albertans sure do have a lot of reasons to be proud of our politicians right now.
Go politics! To hell with profit driven corporations! Who needs 'em!
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Well, I'm not a Calgarian or an Albertan anymore, so I don't feel any reason to be emotional about the politics there. It not about politics anyhow. It's about spending a lot of public money, end stop, and if people can't see how the Flames owners and the NHL are trying to use emotion and thinly-veiled threats to scare people into spending it those people need to be helped to see it. Calgary holds all the cards here and every player knows it.
I want to see a new stadium for the Flames, as well as a field house and lots of other things, and I'm sure it will happen, but I hope the City can grind every single cent out of the team that it can. It's just smart business.