Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Economy

🇨🇦 Calgary is a city in the western Canadian province of Alberta. It is situated at the confluence of the Bow River and the Elbow River in the south of the province, in the transitional area between the foothill and the prairie, about 80 km east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies, roughly 299 km south of the provincial capital of Edmonton and approximately 240 km north of the Canada–United States border. The city anchors the south end of the Statistics Canada-defined urban area, the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor.

Calgary's economy includes activity in the energy, financial services, film and television, transportation and logistics, technology, manufacturing, aerospace, health and wellness, retail, and tourism sectors. The Calgary Metropolitan Region is home to Canada's second-highest number of corporate head offices among the country's 800 largest corporations. In 2015 Calgary had the highest number of millionaires per capita of any major Canadian city. In 1988 it became the first Canadian city to host the Winter Olympic Games.

The Economist Intelligence Unit ranked Calgary the most liveable city in North America in both 2018 and 2019. Calgary has been a top 5 contender for this title for the last 10 years.

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Economy Calgary is recognised as a leader in the Canadian oil and gas industry, and its economy expanded at a significantly higher rate than the overall Canadian economy (43% and 25%, respectively) over the ten-year period from 1999 to 2009. Its high personal and family incomes, low unemployment and high GDP per capita have all benefited from increased sales and prices due to a resource boom, and increasing economic diversification.

Calgary benefits from a relatively strong job market in Alberta, is part of the Calgary–Edmonton Corridor, one of the fastest growing regions in the country. It is the head office for many major oil and gas related companies, and many financial service business have grown up around them. Small business and self-employment levels also rank amongst the highest in Canada. Calgary is a distribution and transportation hub with high retail sales.

Calgary's economy is decreasingly dominated by the oil and gas industry, although it is still the single largest contributor to the city's GDP. In 2006, Calgary's real GDP (in constant 1997 dollars) was CA$52.386 billion, of which oil, gas and mining contributed 12%. The larger oil and gas companies are BP Canada, Canadian Natural Resources Limited, Cenovus Energy, Encana, Imperial Oil, Suncor Energy, Shell Canada, Husky Energy, TransCanada, and Nexen, making the city home to 87% of Canada's oil and natural gas producers and 66% of coal producers.

In 2013, Calgary's four largest industries by employee count were "Trade" (with 112,800 employees), "Professional, Scientific and Technical Services" (100,800 employees), "Health Care and Social Assistance" (89,200 employees), and "Construction" (81,500 employees).

In 2006, the top three private sector employers in Calgary were Shaw Communications (7,500 employees), Nova Chemicals (4,945) and Telus (4,517). Companies rounding out the top ten were Mark's Work Wearhouse, the Calgary Co-op, Nexen, Canadian Pacific Railway, CNRL, Shell Canada and Dow Chemical Canada. The top public sector employers in 2006 were the Calgary Zone of the Alberta Health Services (22,000), the City of Calgary (12,296) and the Calgary Board of Education (8,000). Public sector employers rounding out the top five were the University of Calgary and the Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division.

In Canada, Calgary has the second-highest concentration of head offices in Canada (behind Toronto), the most head offices per capita, and the highest head office revenue per capita. Some large employers with Calgary head offices include Canada Safeway Limited, Westfair Foods Ltd., Suncor Energy, Agrium, Flint Energy Services Ltd., Shaw Communications, and Canadian Pacific Railway. CPR moved its head office from Montreal in 1996 and Imperial Oil moved from Toronto in 2005. Encana's new 58-floor corporate headquarters, the Bow, became the tallest building in Canada outside of Toronto. In 2001, the city became the corporate headquarters of the TSX Venture Exchange.

WestJet is headquartered close to the Calgary International Airport, and Enerjet has its headquarters on the airport grounds. Prior to their dissolution, Canadian Airlines and Air Canada's subsidiary Zip were also headquartered near the city's airport. Although its main office is now based in Yellowknife, Canadian North, purchased from Canadian Airlines in September 1998, still maintains operations and charter offices in Calgary.

According to a report by Alexi Olcheski of Avison Young published in August 2015, vacancy rates rose to 11.5 per cent in the second quarter of 2015 from 8.3 per cent in 2014. Oil and gas company office spaces in downtown Calgary are subleasing 40 per cent of their overall vacancies. H&R Real Estate Investment Trust, which owns the 58-storey, 158,000-square-metre Bow Tower, claims the building was fully leased. Tenants such as Suncor "have been letting staff and contractors go in response to the downturn".

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada 
<b>Calgary, Alberta, Canada</b>
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Calgary is rated Beta − by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) which evaluates and ranks the relationships between world cities in the context of globalisation. Beta level cities are cities that link moderate economic regions to the world economy.

Calgary is the #51 city in the world according to the Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI) which evaluates and ranks the competitiveness of the major financial centres of the world according to a wide range of criteria – Human Capital, Business, Finance, Infrastructure and Reputation.

Calgary is ranked #73 by the Global Urban Competitiveness Report (GUCR) which evaluates and ranks world cities in the context of economic competitiveness. Calgary was ranked #233 by the Nomad List which evaluates and ranks remote work hubs by cost, internet, fun and safety. Calgary has a population of over 1,214,839 people. Calgary also forms the centre of the wider Calgary metropolitan area which has a population of over 1,581,000 people. Calgary is the #228 hipster city in the world, with a hipster score of 3.2515 according to the Hipster Index which evaluates and ranks the major cities of the world according to the number of vegan eateries, coffee shops, tattoo studios, vintage boutiques, and record stores. Calgary is ranked #116 for startups with a score of 4.849.

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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Calgary has links with:

🇰🇷 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷 Daejon, South Korea 🇨🇳 Daqing, China 🇮🇳 Jaipur, India 🇮🇱 Mazkeret Batya, Israel 🇲🇽 Naucalpan, Mexico 🇺🇸 Phoenix, USA 🇨🇦 Québec City, Canada 🇫🇷 Rivesaltes, France 🇧🇦 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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  • Thomas Hayton Mawson |

    🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Landscape Architect/Garden Designer/Town Planner Thomas Hayton Mawson is associated with Calgary. Most of the gardens he designed were in the Windermere area.

  • Edward Box Wetenhall |

    🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Architect Edward Box Wetenhall is associated with Calgary. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1924.

Antipodal to Calgary is: 65.942,-51.046

Locations Near: Calgary -114.058,51.0464

🇨🇦 Red Deer -113.809,52.269 d: 137  

🇨🇦 Lethbridge -112.834,49.694 d: 173.7  

🇨🇦 Cranbrook -115.76,49.518 d: 208.6  

🇨🇦 Edmonton -113.483,53.533 d: 279.3  

🇨🇦 St Albert -113.617,53.633 d: 289.2  

🇨🇦 Medicine Hat -110.667,50.033 d: 264.8  

🇨🇦 Nelson -117.283,49.5 d: 286.5  

🇺🇸 Sandpoint -116.567,48.267 d: 357.9  

🇺🇸 Missoula -114,46.85 d: 466.6  

🇺🇸 Coeur d'Alene -116.78,47.693 d: 421.7  

Antipodal to: Calgary 65.942,-51.046

🇫🇷 Saint-Pierre 55.478,-21.342 d: 16589  

🇫🇷 Saint-Benoît 55.713,-21.034 d: 16560.9  

🇲🇺 Mahébourg 57.7,-20.407 d: 16532.8  

🇲🇺 Curepipe 57.517,-20.317 d: 16519.6  

🇫🇷 Saint-Paul 55.27,-21.01 d: 16548.1  

🇫🇷 Saint-Paul 55.279,-21 d: 16547.3  

🇲🇺 Vacoas-Phoenix 57.493,-20.3 d: 16517.3  

🇲🇺 Quatre Bornes 57.479,-20.266 d: 16513.3  

🇲🇺 Centre de Flacq 57.718,-20.2 d: 16510.5  

🇫🇷 Saint-Denis 55.457,-20.867 d: 16537  

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