Here's my problem with the Rick Bell article. If you read something else, say, written by an actual journalist who is just a rabble rouser, like, perhaps this:
http://www.metronews.ca/news/calgary...-meetings.html
you get an entirely different view of what has occurred. It was an committee making recommendations and council was debating it. Nenshi wasn't begging for this, it isn't his idea to spend $170,000 and he welcomes different ideas on how to proceed. All of council was involved in the discussion. But if you only read the Sun and The Dinger, you are being greatly misled.