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Old Posted Nov 20, 2018, 7:24 PM
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Hey Malcolm have you always been a negative pessimistic dumbass ? LOL. right back at ya.
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Old Posted Nov 21, 2018, 5:32 AM
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If Canada gets an expo, it should go to Toronto, speaking quite frankly and honesty. A truly connected world city, which hasn't received an Olympics or Expo before like Calgary, Montreal and Vancouver. Unlike with a winter Olympics, Calgary does not have an affinity for a world expo.

The price point of an Expo is huge, with fewer revenue lines (IE no $1.2B from a global body like we were committed for the Olympics). Dubai 2020 is hitting $50B, and how many of you were planning to attend Dubai 2020? Pushing an expo is like pushing for a temporary Disneyland, and we already have the Calgary Stampeded. There is a hobbling expo pumper on the loose, and the idea is a hobbled one.

And the above is without even considering that Calgary citizens rejected spending $390M for $4B of infusion into Calgary. I can't see them wanting to risk for this now. And personally I think the we may have ticked off other levels of government now also, having rejected their generous offers that were on the table.
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Hey Malcolm have you always been a negative pessimistic dumbass ? LOL. right back at ya.
Proposals that involve the feds transferring to the Alberta government billions a year just for budget support is not realistic. We aren't poor.



We have a government revenue problem that is made worse because we refuse to cut entire programs (both the PCs and NDP are guilty of this, and the Wildrose and UCP guilty of not identifying things they want the government to stop doing as Opposition), continuing to believe somehow we can get better results for less money, and we refuse to raise taxes.
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Old Posted Nov 21, 2018, 4:46 PM
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If Canada gets an expo, it should go to Toronto, speaking quite frankly and honesty. A truly connected world city, which hasn't received an Olympics or Expo before like Calgary, Montreal and Vancouver. Unlike with a winter Olympics, Calgary does not have an affinity for a world expo.

The price point of an Expo is huge, with fewer revenue lines (IE no $1.2B from a global body like we were committed for the Olympics). Dubai 2020 is hitting $50B, and how many of you were planning to attend Dubai 2020? Pushing an expo is like pushing for a temporary Disneyland, and we already have the Calgary Stampeded. There is a hobbling expo pumper on the loose, and the idea is a hobbled one.

And the above is without even considering that Calgary citizens rejected spending $390M for $4B of infusion into Calgary. I can't see them wanting to risk for this now. And personally I think the we may have ticked off other levels of government now also, having rejected their generous offers that were on the table.
Their are two tiers of Expos - 6 month World Expos where many countries build their own buildings, and 3 months Specialized Expos where countries outfit the standardized buildings supplied by the Expo itself.



Calgary bid for the 2005 6 month Expo. Edmonton explored bidding for a 3 month 2017 Expo.
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Old Posted Nov 21, 2018, 6:19 PM
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I researched some as well and you are correct in your numbers and bids info. One tries their best to create new visions for alberta but even calgary taxpayers didnt want to risk $390 million for badly needed infrastructure.Alberta is the countries main equalization,transfer payment provider.(or was if the ndp, fed libs and special rockefeller usa funded groups shut our oil industry down). so unless our transfers and equalization formulas are adjusted or we cant ship our current oil to asia more from bc or texas (instead of usa low prices ) then alberta can look forward to being an equalization payment receiver and we pay a new sales tax.
We can all envision how horrible it will be to live in canada if this happens. no handouts to keep bombardier,cbc,supply management dairy farmers,subsidized quebec day care etc..shall I go on about how the east will hate alberta more than now if our payments stop and our current (non leader ) wont be able to explain that one away when he needed to just be more assertive now.
Maybe we need to envision a country where quebec says thank you Alberta just once and perhaps that is the best vision of all.
We love Canada as long as we are all treated equally. God bless Canada
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Old Posted Nov 21, 2018, 6:53 PM
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"then alberta can look forward to being an equalization payment receiver"
It isn't based on our government budget, it is based on the economy.



We would have to fall a long long long way to get below the Canadian average (and Alberta has already had a 19% contraction). And remember as Alberta falls, the average also falls, so to get below, the fall is pretty deep!




Source: https://www.policyschool.ca/unpackin...ments-2018-19/



Source: https://www.policyschool.ca/unpackin...ments-2018-19/


And remember, as our fiscal capacity falls, our existing taxes collect less money, so the deficit isn't solved by equalization. The deficit is caused 100% by spending more than we collect in taxes (because our taxes are the lowest in the country by far), and the assumption that we can have Texas taxes while receiving Swedish services.



Source: https://www.policyschool.ca/unpackin...ments-2018-19/
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I'm slightly confused by their explanation. Are they saying that if, say, Manitoba taxed people at the same rate as the average federal level, it would collect about %110 of the tax it does now? If that's the case then is it saying that Manitoba a low-tax province? Because that doesn't seem right.
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I'm slightly confused by their explanation. Are they saying that if, say, Manitoba taxed people at the same rate as the average federal level, it would collect about %110 of the tax it does now? If that's the case then is it saying that Manitoba a low-tax province? Because that doesn't seem right.
The opposite. If Manitoba set rates at the average of the provinces, Manitoba would collect less revenues from taxes than it does today. Hence why Alberta is the lowest in that graph.
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Anyway... Stephen Avenue Quarter... Thoughts? Renderings?
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Stephen Avenue Quarter

Fantasy Calgary Tower remodel, retrofit with a "Vessel" type mega sculpture (Kinetic Pump Jack on the left, stylized utility pole on the right).

I built miniatures of 17th avenue's 'Tomkins Park' - It would be excellent to see the SAQ tower with a clock face visible from this region. Or an interesting spire.



Consider a remodel of the Tower every century. In this case, a stone facade.



A bucket-list destination...



Tomkins Park miniature model:



Replace gas cauldron with 24 hour X 365 day LED flame that reacts to weather conditions. You'll see Tiffany Lizze pointing at the towers flame flickering
wildly when a wind alert is issued. Exaggerate the beams, encase in glass

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