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In the spring of 2010, I got a message from a professor at Mount Royal College, asking if I could find time for coffee.
I couldn’t or rather, I didn’t. Really, another guy who wanted to run in the civic election? The bushes were full of them.
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Six months later, Naheed Nenshi was elected mayor of Calgary after one of the most remarkable campaigns ever to come out of nowhere.
Today, on the 11th anniversary of 2010, one year later after last year’s festivities for the decennial, and following nearly a year of being under the weather of COVID-19, the idea of the region staging the 26th Winter Games has further evolved into a rare and timely opportunity to provide Metro Vancouver and British Columbia as a whole with a beacon of hope, and a powerful economic jumpstart for the years-long recovery ahead.
Convincing ourselves always comes as the first major hurdle, but what would it take to overcome the ultimate hurdle of actually winning the rights to host the Games, again?
Jason Kenney takes on COVID-19 conspiracy theorists in Facebook rant
Premier Jason Kenney is urging Albertans who have bought into conspiracy theories about COVID-19 being a hoax or part of a global effort to impose some kind of socialist order upon the world to wake up and smell the coffee and look at the actual data.
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Premier urges Albertans to look at the data, says he s not in cahoots with George Soros or Klaus Schwab