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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
It's such a dump eh.
Generated 23,500 jobs;
Contributed $339 million in taxes a year;
An annual economic impact of $1.2 billion;
Surpassed the economic benefit of the Town of Banff by generating tourism expenditures of $670 million a year, compared to $565 million a year in Banff;
Established Edmonton and Alberta as a major tourist destination by attracting millions of national and international tourists annually.
http://www.triplefive.com/tourism.html
I don't see anyone defending it like it is a member of the family....there happens to be some people on this site that will bash Edmonton no matter what is there or who good something is. It's not a dump...if it was...it would be out of business and they wouldn't be expanding and they wouldn't have the numbers like above. |
JOM I won't unconditionally bash Edmonton. Their have good sports fans and civic pride, but the city is awful, the mall is the 'tourist attraction', too many flakes per capita, they try to burn down their own city on Canada Day, the numbered their streets and aves the wrong way, and the very same engineer must have built northlands ... where you "can't lean forward in your seat, or you wreck everyone elses sidelines."
There are simply alot of things to bash that are low hanging fruit.