Calgary’s pent-up energy is on full display at the city’s annual Stampede, with actor Kevin Costner leading the parade and a return to the first full rodeo and midway after two years of cancellations or scaled-back events. Conservative leadership races at both the provincial and federal levels are at full tilt, a provincial election is less than a year away, and politicians are filing in for pancake breakfasts and barbecues all over the city.
“We are cautious about our optimism,” said Gregg Scott, who founded one of the city’s major land services firms, which acquire land for oil and gas companies. And a new generation of functions is coming out, including from the city’s growing tech sector. At the Innovation Corridor Stampede Party at the top of a new tech hub in the East Village, the tone on Thursday evening was more counterculture than cowboy. Roller skaters line danced at the Platform Innovation Centre rooftop, and the performing drag queens and Mayor Jyoti Gondek talked about how Calgary is a city that is about far more than its stereotypes.
“People are coming here to be part of the energy associated with the Stampede,” she said. “It’s Calgary’s coming-out party.” “The numbers we saw weren’t record-breaking, by any stretch of the imagination,” said Mr. Rawji, the managing partner of Relay Ventures and the founder and chairman of MobSquad. “It’s not the right signal for this year because the momentum has carried since then.”
I see a lot of clowns will be on site.
Celebrating animal abuse.
Well that’s a bizarre photo to use. Do better.
Business as usual? Why are we fucking using a drag queen as clickbait for a STAMPEDE? or is the media saying drag queens are more important than the actual stampede?
Why did you use a picture of a group of trannys?
Why no coverage on the Dutch Farmers ? WHY ? The MSM doesn't want you to see how big the Dutch Farmers protest is getting.