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Time to get tough on Cowtown

The Globe and Mail

To any urbanite, Calgary is a city that makes your heart rate slow down. Not in a Zen, meditative kind of way, but because of the depressing realization that Calgary is mostly suburbia with a troubled downtown. The city is absent. Not even the ambitious EnCana Corporation tower designed by British architect Sir Norman Foster can fix this one on its own.