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Nelson: Calgary's Blue Skies the limit of silliness

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11.07.2024

Maybe Climate Emergency City wasn’t so bad after all. At least it didn’t cost us $5.8 million.

Jyoti Gondek came up with that rather interesting rebranding of Calgary all on her own, as soon as she got nicely settled into the comfy mayor’s chair.

Sure, it was a remarkably daft thing to do, given we rely so much on the energy industry for our wealth, but allow her some slack — there was no messing about nor any accompanying blather about how we need to collectively lift our eyes and welcome a truth we can all stand behind.

She did it; she owns it. And, come October 2025, she’ll receive the citizens’ verdict. That’s fair enough.

You may have guessed it isn’t that previous head-scratcher we’re on about today. We’re much further down the rabbit hole of stupidity than that. Step right up, Blue Sky City.

This is what Tourism Calgary and Calgary Economic Development came up with to replace Be Part of the Energy, because apparently we........

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