Naheed Nenshi has held Calgary’s top job for a decade, and no other year has been quite like 2020.Nenshi has led the city through a crisis before; he was mayor when widespread flooding devastated Calgary in 2013.
Back then, the water washed away within days and the community came together as a massive and expensive cleanup began.The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic that hit in 2020, however, has endured, bringing with it division and anger, decimating the economy and killing hundreds of Albertans.Global News’ Dallas Flexhaug sat down with Nenshi, virtually, for a look back at 2020 — and a look ahead to 2021.Nenshi says he had an eye on this virus in early January, but since Canada had dealt with SARS before and knew how to handle outbreaks,.