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Title: Canadians think Calgarians are �cowboys and rich oilmen,�  according to poll | Calgary Herald
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Alta_redneck
Date: 2014-12-10 20:28:09
Canadian

[Yogi]

Barren & a blanket of brown smog

[Public_Domain]

[Thanos]

Sorry, there hasn't been a quality gay-bashing session around these parts in decades.

Pretty sure all the old school cowboys got displaced by all those meathead hipsters who came here from Vancouver and Toronto so they could turn us into another Vancouver and Toronto. That's the only explanation that makes sense when it comes to that ridiculous mayor and city council we now have.

[BeaverFever]

Thanos Thanos:

Sorry, there hasn't been a quality gay-bashing session around these parts in decades.

Pretty sure all the old school cowboys got displaced by all those meathead hipsters who came here from Vancouver and Toronto so they could turn us into another Vancouver and Toronto. That's the only explanation that makes sense when it comes to that ridiculous mayor and city council we now have.

Yes, the fact that a city like Calgary would have a mayor who is a Harvard graduate, a short-list contender for the upcoming World Mayor Prize and the #2 on Maclean's "most important people in Canada" list is pretty ridiculous. I think there must have been a mix-up in 2010 and Toronto got Calgary's mayor while Calgary got Toronto's mayor. Rob Ford is available now, however.

[OnTheIce]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

Yes, the fact that a city like Calgary would have a mayor who is a Harvard graduate, a short-list contender for the upcoming World Mayor Prize and the #2 on Maclean's "most important people in Canada" list is pretty ridiculous. I think there must have been a mix-up in 2010 and Toronto got Calgary's mayor while Calgary got Toronto's mayor. Rob Ford is available now, however.

Being Harvard educated doesn't translate well into politics. See: David Miller

[bootlegga]

Public_Domain Public_Domain:

E-tards and lynched gay people is mostly what that city screams to me.

From what I've seen and heard in my life, lynching gay people is more a Calgary suburb kind of thing - places like Airdrie, Cochrane and Brooks.

Calgary is actually pretty tolerant and quite a bit more progressive than it used to be, although it's nowhere near as progressive as the three largest cities in Canada.

When I think of Calgary, drunks and pick-ups comes to mind, but that shoe fits on most places in Alberta.

[DrCaleb]

bootlegga bootlegga:

When I think of Calgary, drunks and pick-ups comes to mind, but that shoe fits on most places in Alberta.

Funny, but my experience in Calgary lately has been either a douchebag driving a car he can barely afford (and driving it poorly) or some yokel 'rolling Coal' in a 1000 HP jacked up Dodge with Semi-truck stacks.

'Pickups' trend as you move further north, with the F-350 with the welding rig in the back being more common the closer you get to where people work for a living.

[BeaverFever]

$1:

See: David Miller

See: your subjective opinion of David Miller. Just because you're a right-winger and he's not doesn't mean he was a failure. For example, most of the current and waterfront redevelopment, new streetcars, new subways, the de-ghettoization of Regent Park (formerly Canada's largest ghetto), 311, and despite what righty's say about his fiscal policy, the fact is that the city's credit rating as assessed annually by Moody's went up and stayed up during Miller's 7 year term and it went down under Ford.

I'm not saying Miller was the greatest leader of our time or anything like that, and like all politicians he was not witout some controversy. But the right's attempt to paint him as some type of abysmal failure is just propaganda.

[martin14]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

$1:

For example, most of the current and waterfront redevelopment,

You mean all those condos that are blowing out windows left and right, and are going
to cost tens of millions to fix ?

Yeah, good one, that.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/f ... -1.2796979

[BeaverFever]

martin14 martin14:

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

$1:

For example, most of the current and waterfront redevelopment,

You mean all those condos that are blowing out windows left and right, and are going
to cost tens of millions to fix ?

Yeah, good one, that.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/f ... -1.2796979

Nice Try:

$1:

Toronto had no inspection for over a year. Of the 3,735 reported code violations in 2012, only 30 per cent had been inspected, and more violations were issued than closed each year

. Care to look up who was mayor by then?

Miller brought in the developer investment, Ford turned a blind eye to the builders' violations.

[Delwin]

When I think of Calgarians, I picture Texans, only with worse hygiene and down syndrome.

[OnTheIce]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

$1:

See: David Miller

See: your subjective opinion of David Miller. Just because you're a right-winger and he's not doesn't mean he was a failure. For example, most of the current and waterfront redevelopment, new streetcars, new subways, the de-ghettoization of Regent Park (formerly Canada's largest ghetto), 311, and despite what righty's say about his fiscal policy, the fact is that the city's credit rating as assessed annually by Moody's went up and stayed up during Miller's 7 year term and it went down under Ford.

I'm not saying Miller was the greatest leader of our time or anything like that, and like all politicians he was not witout some controversy. But the right's attempt to paint him as some type of abysmal failure is just propaganda.

This isn't a right-left thing at all. In fact, when Miller originally won, I thought he had a lot of great ideas for the City.

His fiscal policy was disastrous, regardless if you look at it from the left or right. Who can forget the numerous laughable 'green' initiatives like the 5 cent bad fee? How about adding a billion in debt and raising City expenditures by 40+%? Not only did he increase taxes to pay for his projects, he overspent and kept putting the City into debt; a structural deficit that could only be overcome by raiding reserves and getting 1 time bailouts from various levels of government.

That's not an analysis from the right, that's just the history of David Miller.

Part of being a Mayor and running a City is managing your finances accordingly and balance that with the needs of your City. Anyone can tax and spend until the money runs out. That's not success.

As for your comment about the City's credit rating...it's been at AA1 for the last 10 years.

[OnTheIce]

Delwin Delwin:

When I think of Calgarians, I picture Texans, only with worse hygiene and down syndrome.

[DrCaleb]

Delwin Delwin:

When I think of Calgarians, I picture Texans, only with worse hygiene and down syndrome.

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

I'm quite proud that English Canada has reacted so warmly and gracefully. A few more Beliveaus and maybe some more of the barriers will disappear.

current-events-f59/jean-beliveau-funeral-thousands-bid-habs-legend-a-final-far-t111020.html#p2102927

As you can see Jabber, we aren't the barrier to East/West brotherly love.