“We need to embrace the new normal now. Alberta’s deficit is soaring, thousands and thousands of people have lost their jobs, and we are at risk of falling into a self-perpetuating funk of economic and social stagnation if we don’t start acting soon.” Doug Kirby on some ideas from a recent forum, on how we in Calgary can start shaping our future.

There are people in our country, in Paris and around the world who view Calgary as little more than "Dallas north" — a freewheeling, reckless city filled with swashbuckling J.R. Ewing-style oil barons who couldn't give a flying fig about what their plundering does to the land.