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Latest Lonely Planet guide throws shade on Edmonton

http://edmontonjournal.com/news/loca...de-on-edmonton

“Alberta’s second-largest city and capital is a government town that you’re more likely to read about in the business pages than the travel supplements,” the book says.

“Downtown is for the moneyed and the down-and-out. There’s hope that the much-lauded Rogers Place will breathe life into it, but this seems like a tall order.”

Conversely, Calgary gets a glowing review with the writers finding Alberta’s most populated city “that to non-Calgarians long served as a somewhat bland business centre or a functional springboard has actually become — ahem — cool.”