Posted Mar 7, 2010, 7:01 AM
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formerly-furry flâneur
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Bankview, Calgary
Posts: 6,912
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Richard White vacillates between being thoughtful and being a complete idiot. A few years ago he wrote a column bemoaning the fact (he assumed) that, while Montreal (he specifically said "Montreal") got immigrants from the world over, Calgary only got immigrants from out east and Sask, so we weren't as cosmopolitan. This was ignorant in two respects: One, immigrants ONLY come from outside the country. Second, Calgary has, and has had for decades, a higher rate of immigration than Montreal has. I tried to contact him about his idiocy but at the time he had no contact info in his columns.
But as to this column- there are lots of examples of malls being geographically close to downtowns- Chinook isn't even the best one; yes, it's near the geographic centre of the city, but it's still 50+ blocks south of downtown. Compare that to Portland and Lloyd Centre. And I'm sure there are tonnes and tonnes of other examples.
Also. North Hill is closer to downtown than is Chinook.
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