There's no heros or villians here. If you believe one side or the other isn't just trying to get the best deal for their side then you're just falling for the PR.
The city or mayor aren't idiots. They put the deal falling out on twitter to beat the Flames side to get the story out and to try to frame it how they want it to be framed that the city/mayor is doing reasonable things and the Flames keep wanting more from them.
The Flames then put out their little press release but they also have the Postmedia opinion columnists put out their PR about how the city is going to cause the Flames to leave because they are cheap or screwing something out.
There aren't any Liberal papers in Calgary but the Toronto Star opinion columnist returns fire on the city size.
I'm not saying the Postmedia papers or Toronto Star are being directed to release these articles by the Flames or the city, but no matter what happened, you know Postmedia papers were to support the Flames and the Toronto Star would be against the billionaire owners.
The Flames could say they are dropping out of the deal because they didn't like the mayors haircut and the Calgary opinion columnists would spit out a piece about the how the mayors bad stylist choice is sign of her ineptitude.
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