As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact Calgary’s economy, the city is looking ahead at how it can best recover in the future.
A task force has been formed to create a list of important projects for the city — should the provincial or federal government announce stimulus funding. “This is not the City of Calgary trying to take advantage of this crisis, or use it as an opportunity to get stuff that we need from other governments,” Mayor Naheed Nenshi said of the task force during Thursday’s Intergovernmental Affairs Committee meeting. “In reality, it’s because the situation is dire.” Nenshi said the future may be a strange thing to think about when jobs are currently being lost, but he said the city needs to be ready for when the