Every eight to twelve years Calgary goes through a boom and bust cycle. This has been happening forever. There are years where everybody's moving to Calgary and

Every eight to twelve years Calgary goes through a boom and bust cycle. This has been happening forever. There are years where everybody's moving to Calgary and buying rolexes and years where petrochemical engineers are driving taxis. It seems unlikely that Calgary will get another real boom, though. Now that Alberta's mostly just shipping the northern oil sands off through pipelines there isn't a lot of use in having huge offices there.