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Canadian productivity is flat, which is why rising wages are inflationary. Canada stands next to no chance of ending controls on industries like dairy, poultry, telecom, commercial air travel or financial services as those are concentrated in ON and QC. Laurentian Capitalism is based almost...

If wages kept up, inflation would keep rising.

A party structure would ensure only one serious challenger to the union backed candidate. I suspect it will be Farkas

Looks terrible. How difficult would it be to replace some of the exterior on the lower portion to better transition to the addition?

Many of those on temporary visas will leave as will some recent immigrants. The Canadian economy is nowhere near as attractive as in the past. Calgary probably won't experience as much retrenchment as it didn't attract near as many student visas. I suspect places like KW and Toronto will loose...

Seems to be holding up much better than during the 2003 - 2007 boom, probably because commercial and oil and gas construction were sucking up so many resources then. I was in Calgary last week, traffic is still nowhere as bad as previous booms.

Who won't be gone? I'd guess most likely to survive the purge would be McLean and Sharp

And better to spend it before union negotiations

It probably sealed Gondek not running for re-election, so worth every penny.

How can you tell by looking at the building thst it doesn't have thermal gaps?

Southland was almost as bad

I don't remember a theatre at Watermark (nee Western Gas Tower).

The food court was always there. The theatres became the drug store and optician office. Esso Plaza theatres were tiny, probably the worst in Calgary.

Famous Players closed the Palace when it opened Bankers Hall. For a while, the Globe (know as Towne back in the day) had a Red theatre showing mass market movies and a Blue theatre showing porn. Every few months they would swap the physical locations - likely for cleaning. 12 year old me saw...

It is an Equinix data center now

Why intervene when Council's approval rating is one of the lowest in Calgary history. The Mayor and most Councillors will be gone next year.

Most cities would kill to have an easy right of way for roads and utility lines. That being said, it could have been narrower.

Couldn't disagree more. The better models would be other self invented cities like Denver or Dallas that have supplemented their resource based economies with transportation and logistics, tech and business services. Calgary is what it is due entirely to entrepreneurism. As long as it continues...

American automakers stumbled hugely in the 70s and 80s, losing market share to competitors with more fuel efficient products. Prior to the OPEC embargo, few drivers considered fuel economy. The auto industry also had to deal with new emissions and safety requirements as well as militant unions...

Calgary never had substantial heavy industry. What it did have, left long ago: -munitions plant that is now a strip mall in Douglas Glen - burned down in the 70's -fertilizer plant that is now a storage location off Barlow (remainder of site is solar farm) - closed in 80's -fertilizer plant that...