Calgary, bulldoze the economic blues away

It's January.It's cold.It's dark.We're in a recession.Gloom stalks the streets of our city.

Well Calgary, we've been here before.In late 1982, the times were tough here in oil and gas country.The world was experiencing an oil glut (sound familiar?), prices were down and Calgarians were in a rut.

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So, the Chamber of Commerce decided we were all being negative and needed a serious attitude adjustment.They created a new campaign called, "Yes we Can". It even came with a nifty song to cheer us out of the economic doldrums.

Calgary Mayor Ralph Klein got onboard, and decided to bulldoze his way through the negativity.Literally.

Check out how we at the CBC reported the whole thing from this story which aired back on November 15th,1982.

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