CORY MORGAN： Calgary didn’t become famous by apologizing for its cowboy culture
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Summary
The Calgary Stampede has been going on for almost a century. It s a state of mind that grasps the city for 11 days every year, and it s the envy of countless cities that can only dream of having such a distinct and ongoing event that takes over the entire city for a period of time. Unfortunately, to woke snobs, however, it s something shameful.
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i mean if you've been watching the news what's going on with uh what turned into a politicized
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battle with well it's left versus right as usual it seems actually you know premier smith and other
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conservatives saying that uh it's okay to have a party in the stampede and some others on the
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other side saying no the city needs to crack down on the noise and such and i'll give it to rick
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bell right in the middle complaining and curmudgeonly about the whole thing no matter what
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at least he's consistent but it's an element of a bigger issue and calgary has a culture problem
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and the problem isn't among the citizenry though it's it's in city hall where these
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woke self-loathing souls have taken up habitation and they've been actively trying to undercut civic
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pride and change the nature of the city they despise the agricultural and oil-filled roots
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of the city and are incrementally trying to erase traces of them the calgary stampede is
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just their latest target and they're not trying to regulate the nightlife out of the world acclaimed
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party. Every city on earth has some sort of annual festival or fair but there's only a handful that
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have unique events that take over the entire city for a period of time and Calgary is fortunate
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enough to be one of those. The Calgary Stampede began as a rodeo but has become much more than
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that. It also has a large exhibition in Midway but again the event is much more than that. It's a
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state of mind that grasps the city for 11 days every year. People across the city dress in
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western wear from the tasteful to the outright cheesy it doesn't really matter if a person's a
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cowboy or not it's a period of good-natured fun cosplaying and people come from around the world
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to take part in it even downtown in the corporate world it's been a long-standing tradition that
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dress codes are relaxed during the stampede week and employees can wear denim the events go well
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outside of the stampede grounds themselves pancake breakfasts barbecues parties held in every quarter
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of the city and in people's homes businesses are decorated with hay bales and rail fences and
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windows are painted with western and cowboy scenes. You can't walk a block in Calgary in any part of
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town during Stampede Week without seeing evidence that the event is going on. Every bar tends into
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a party hub during Stampede Week. Western bars such as the ranchmans have become legendary for
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the Stampede parties held there. Downtown tents are erected with stages where live acts perform
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and people party for every night of the event. Yes, it's just a giant piss-up for many people,
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but that's part of the whole affair. I mean, should we pretend that Mardi Gras or Oktoberfest
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are really any different? The Stampede brings in over $720 million in economic activity to
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Alberta every year, and it's the envy of countless cities that can only dream of having such a
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distinct and ongoing event. Unfortunately, to woke snobs, however, they see the Stampede as
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something shameful. Look up Deborah Yedlin. She was complaining about the cowboy culture a few
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years ago. That's the head of the Chamber of Commerce. They envision cowboys as hicks and
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rodeos is primitive. They envision a city of coffee shops and art galleries unsullied by these
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hundreds of thousands of partygoers, and these pompous, fun-hating fools are entrenched in
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Calgary's City Hall. It really began during Nenshi's era and continued with Gondek. They began
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filling the vacancies with woke hipsters and continued for over a decade. Now we're seeing
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the fruits of all of that. Fort Calgary was renamed the Confluence, lest its proper name
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offend an Indigenous person somewhere. They tried to cancel the fireworks at Fort Calgary as well
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because they felt the city should be hanging its figurative head in shame
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over the Kamloops residential school child burial hoax.
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Calgary's slogan was changed from Heart of the New West,
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because it was too Western, to be part of the energy.
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But that referred to energy, so then they changed it to the
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embarrassing and meaningless slogan of Blue Sky City.
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It took them two steps, but they managed to eliminate references
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to the West and oil field in a city slogan, and it was no mistake.
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Now it's cracking down in the downtown partying.
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Calgary City Hall is attacking a vital part of the whole affair, and they know it.
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The young people coming to the Stampede are coming to party and to build memories.
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If the lights are cut early and the sound is kept down, it isn't a party.
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Out of 1.4 million people, just over 200 of them complained about the noise last year.
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And City Hall felt that was enough to justify moving in.
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Look, the Stampede's been happening for over 100 years,
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and partying downtown's always been a part of that.
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If it's really that onerous for a few people living near these event tents,
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It's like moving next to an airport and complaining about the planes.
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take a week out of downtown and move to the suburbs then if it's that bad the battle brewing
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over the party tents is much more than a small point of principle it's over the city taking a
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big step towards killing a festival that made the city famous people have to push back and not let
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these self-loathing calgarians work towards turning the calgary stampede into just another milquetoast
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city fair rest assured the latte lappers in city hall won't stop with just the tents it's part of a
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larger uglier plan and they can't be allowed to win here guys
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