From the mayor's website:
So,
-Ripping off the middle hill of the Alberta flag explictly, like a cut and paste job.
-Somewhere the joker's hat is part of this, as is the Gateway to the North.
-The river valley is technically on the north and south side of the river, not east West.
-The slogan/statement that just trails off, as if written by Robert Bateman.
-It's just modernizing parts of the current flag logo, which is fine by itself, but in turn has to add funky colors, a river that trails off the hills, and Lisa Simpson's bad hair in the back ground.
And finally, it's only been a few years, but the itch that is the City motto that someone finally had the common sense to remove from the City's signs, was just nagging at the mayor to be scratched, and he obliged, even though there's no real tie into the flag at all...but is anyone surprised?