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   From: AvoidDeadmonton@Murder.Capital.Canada.com   
      
   Deadmonton AB Canada = Unsafe ,Ignored + Disliked Worldwide+Anti-Business   
      
   Last week Brad Ferguson chief blowhard of Edmonton Economic Development   
   Corporation complained to media that his town had less than a 1.5 out of 10   
   worldwide recognition for tourism.   
      
   Actually DEADMONTON Canada has a 15 out of 10 worldwide recognition, but for   
   all the wrong reasons.   
      
   Guess Ferguson must be high on the green herb, to have forgotten the front   
   covers of the SUN newspapers in his town, and Calgary, for 31 July 2011 -   
   DEADMONTON - CITY OF HOMICIDES - MURDER CAPITAL CANADA.   
      
   By year end his town had 49 admitted murders, many times the murders in   
   Calgary !   
      
   How about constant news stories about crooked cops in Edmonton Police -   
   Wasylychen son of former police chief convicted at least 3 times of torturing,   
   $250,000 ,embezzlement by Zenari, tortures and killing by cops, etc.   
      
   Anti-business policies of city council, as in case of Hong Kong billionaire   
   Hop Lee. When they complained to Council, they were told if they did not like   
   it, then go back to Hong Kong.   
      
   Remember a few years ago the anti business action of city council regarding   
   Walmart.Walmart were refused a permit, even though it would have created   
   hundreds of needed jobs.   
      
   No wonder so many businesses, and tens of thousands of jobs are   
   leaving Deadmonton.   
      
      
   In recent years, the following businesses have joined the exodus of jobs:   
           Telus call center - 3000 jobs gone   
           Convergys call center - 3000 jobs gone   
           Nieman-Marcus call center - 600 jobs gone   
           Dell computers - 2500 jobs gone   
           Levi Strauss jeans - 500 jobs gone   
           Gray Beverages/pepsi - relocated to Calgary   
           Safeway regional offices - relocated to Calgary   
           Superstore regional offices - relocated to Calgary   
           Allied Van Lines - regional offices - relocated to Calgary   
           Eagle Hardware from US closed down operations in Deadmonton   
           Walmart was refused permit for new store - 700 jobs lost   
           Now Hunter Douglas Blinds leaving - another 130 jobs gone   
      
      
   How many major developments in Deadmonton will now get cancelled by   
   developers, in protest at having to pay extra taxes just to line the pockets   
   of jew katz and his damn arena?   
      
      
   How many more businesses, fed up with being jewed, will close and   
   take jobs elsewhere ?   
      
   Snow removal is a sick joke.Sensible cities comparable in size such as   
   Ottawa and Winnipeg get all roads cleared of snow within 24 hours.   
   Edmonton took over 4 weeks last winter,at astronomic cost.   
      
   Wastage of city taxes seems to be the hallmark of the incompetents on   
   council. 2 sickening examples were $600,000 for a few stell ball, paid   
   not to a Canadian but a yank; then $800,000 for a stupid balloon.   
      
   The city closed down the airport in town, so that property developers   
   can make hundreds of millions in profits. At the same time communities   
    in northern Alberta who used and depended on the Muni Airport now   
   boycott DEADMONTON   
   in protest. They have transferred their business to Calgary and Vancouver.   
      
   By the way the airport at Leduc, called Edmonton International, drains $8   
   million to $12 million from Edmonton taxpayers, even though it benefits   
   another city.   
      
   In fact, the Edmonton airport gets only HALF the passengers of Calgary   
   airport. Most international airlines avoid YEG, and according to local TV   
   news, overseas tickets when flying  from Calgary, can be as much as $1,000   
   per person CHEAPER than flying from Edmonton. A family of 4 could save up to   
   $4,000.   
      
   In Edmonton, the penalty for motor manslaughter = killing someone with a car,   
   is only between $115 to $1,500. Like in Manila.   
      
   Plus, the dump is too cold in winter, and infested with bloodsucking mosquitos   
   in summer.   
      
   The city goes out of the way, to discourage new businesses.   
    De Dutch Pannekoek House Restaurants,  was supposed have its Edmonton debut   
   in June. Waring partly blames the delay on red tape and a slow-moving city   
   bureaucracy.   
      
   “We’ve been around since 1975 and opened a lot of restaurants in a lot of   
   communities, and without speaking ill of the folks at City Hall here, we ran   
   into more roadblocks here than I’ve run into anywhere else.”   
      
   These are just a few reasons, Brad, why your town has such an unsavoury   
   international reputation.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)