To say Calgary has lost that "can do" spirit is based solely on sports stadiums.
As mentioned on here a few times, there have been countless projects built in the last decade to extinguish that thought.
I moved here roughly 20 years ago, and this city has changed (for the better) far more in the last decade than the first. The urban core and inner city is one of the best in North America given our population.
Have we lost swagger? if by swagger you mean millionaire junior oil and gas execs blowing countless millions on parties, corporate events, and chuckwagon canopies? sure.
Alberta, and Calgary, had it super good for quite a while. $120.00 barrel oil does that to a petrostate. We still have it far better than countless cities and states in North America. This "swagger" is merely a callback to when our own opulence led to our current problems.
Jim Prentice wasnt wrong when he said we all needed to look in the mirror. He was just the wrong person (Party) to say it.
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