Stampede Calgary: Immigration

Competition Venue Dept: How Calgary, which is already a modern urban environment, can expect to retain the visible expressions – ridin’, ropin’, wrasslin’ and wranglin’ – that celebrate its unique cultural roots in what will become an uber-urban culture is a question that should dominate its civic conversation. But while most North American cities would kill for an identifying brand as robust as the Stampede, Calgary’s elite is once again seeking to “rebrand” the city’s image into something assumedly more modern, according to Globe And Mail. Indeed, as recently as two years ago, while Alberta’s overall population growth continued, the province actually suffered negative interprovincial migration, which means more native-born Canadians were leaving Alberta than coming to it. Population growth is primarily dependent on new births and immigrants, without whom the economy would be grinding to a halt but who have no roots in or connections to a rural Canadian, let alone cowboy, culture and recent predictions forecast that Calgary, which has doubled in size in 30 years to 1.1 million residents, will again more than double over the course of two generations to 2.5 million by 2050. My grandchildren’s generation will live in a city roughly the same size as the Toronto of 2001, and with a similar demographic texture. Calgary’s development plans call for the importation of an additional 40,000 to 50,000 residents within its downtown core, creating density levels rivalling those in Manhattan and condo towers that inexplicably overlook the rodeo and chuckwagon competition venue. And while the city’s talent and labour pool has traditionally drawn people from across the country, the baby boom’s extinction-inclined levels of reproduction combined with the increased competitiveness of Saskatchewan and British Columbia means a steadily increasing reliance on new immigrants to sustain Calgary’s economy. As reported in the news.
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