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Welcome to the party.
That was the message Monday from Calgary’s mayor to the Kenney government after some decidedly mixed signals were sent from the province about the plight of the city’s downtown.
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Finance Minister Travis Toews said Friday he didn’t see any need to create a targeted program to address high vacancy rates in downtown office buildings in Calgary and Edmonton.
By Monday, Jobs, Economy and Innovation Minister Doug Schweitzer took a different tack, publishing a guest column in The Herald that announced the province was launching a “working group” to examine the future of downtown Calgary.