No one in Canada likes Toronto either, other than Torontoians. Calgary is much cleaner, more prosperous, and best of all, is not in Ontario. I’m glad all the Liberals are out there ruining your city and province, they will certainly never gain any power in Alberta.

Do you have local correspondence anywhere in Canada? I enjoy my daily dose of inhabitat, but as a Toronto resident I have often felt that a particular issue of inhabitat would be immensly more accurate and informative with a Canadian point of view.
For instance are you aware that Toronto is the condominium capital of North America (units/permits since 1996)?. And on topic; that Calgary is one of 2 major cities in the province of Alberta, whose great wealth and prolific growth over the past 20 years is directly attributable to the TARS SANDS which is accurately described as the most toxic, environmentally damaging, project on Earth. (see http://www.environmentaldefence.ca for reference).
Anything positive that you might consider about Calgary, must be viewed in the light of this awful project.
Cheers, Michael

as for ecotourism, i\’d say people come here to ski, and locals love to ski and mountain bike in the foothills/frontrange. i know lots of other outdoor sports exist, i just focus on these two. calgary has tonnes of eco sports, not sure about the tourist part.
best, ryan

We love to hear from readers, especially when it comes to places where we do not have local correspondences.

The post has been updated to reflect Calgary as clean and its outlying ecotourism areas per wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary

And as car-centric as it may be, Calgary was noted as one of the “cleanest” cities in 2007 per Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/2007/04/16/worlds-cleanest-cities-biz-logistics-cx_rm_0416cleanest_slide_2.html?thisSpeed=15000

Best -
Evelyn

Sorry, what? Calgary is a textbook case of car-centric city planning, with inadequate public transit and unsustainable urban sprawl. Your average Calgarian makes ~75% of all trips outside the home in a private vehicle, the second-highest rate in Canada. The Bow River has some excellent trout fishing – downstream of the sewage treatment plant. You’re almost as likely to reel in a wad of toilet paper as you are a very large but totally inedible fish. There is no eco-tourism in Calgary. If you want that, you need to travel west to Kananaskis Country or into British Columbia.

As a 30-year resident, I will say that some steps have been made to improve Calgary’s ecological footprint, but not nearly enough to consider it a destination for “eco-tourism”.

Calgary is miniature reflection of the Province of Alberta, where our Environment Minister is openly hostile towards the environment, and our own Premier railed against the dangers of wind turbines when 500 ducks recently sank to their doom in a toxic oil-sands tailings pond.