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Originally Posted by Frequitude
Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Do you have any idea how many festivals Calgary hosts every year? We've have an extraordinarily festival rich city. I mean, it's Wikipedia, but here's a list. Major music ones include Folk Fest, Calgary International Blues Festival, International Reggae Festival, and Sled Island. You literally couldn't have picked a worse justification for new stadium > retrofitted stadium in this city.
Just curious, where do you live and how big is the stadium? I'm not saying we shouldn't host these events, I'm saying you don't need a brand new stadium to do it. Give me a list of extreme sports events that can only go in a new stadium and not in a renovated McMahon or somewhere else in and around Calgary. If you can't, its just another magic bean.
So no more Grey Cups in any outdoor Canadian stadiums hey? Not Edmonton, not Regina's new stadium, not Winnipeg's new stadium, not Montreal's, not Ottawa's new stadium, not Hamilton's new stadium? BC and Skydome every year it is then. |
I had a point by point rebuttal to this, but it dawned on me that this is fruitless. We just have very different expectations. When you think that "festivals" like the ones you outline are major, we have different perspectives, and its all about scales of magnitude. I'm talking about festivals where the headliner draws as many fans as the entire lineup for the Calgary Folk Festival. So completely different expectations.
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Half the cities in the U.S. are hell-holes compared to Calgary. But I guess since they're hell-holes with $200 million stadiums they're some kind of model for public policy.
Sorry, I'll take boring stuff like balanced municipal ledgers, effective public transportation, schools that work, and safe public parks you can take your family to over the guns a'blazing approach.
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I would like to know what makes Calgary so awesome that other cities are hell-holes in comparison? Again, scales of magnitude count here.