Posted on 15/07/08
Here's one stampede Calgary isn't celebrating
CALGARY -- The cowboy hats are back on the closet shelf; the cartoonish western window paintings that decorate most of the downtown office buildings here will soon be scrubbed away. The Calgary Stampede - a 10-day party during which "the productivity rate goes down and the birth rate goes up," as one financial type puts it - is over. But in the oil patch, a sense of excitement remains.
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