C Spot
While the results in Calgary were not particularly surprising given the grievances especially in Central Calgary with the Stelmach adinistration, the fact that they happened in the face of significant PC gains in Edmonton was. Of Canada's 22 prime ministers, two have represented a Calgary riding while prime minister.
The Main Campus is in the Northwest quadrant, just north of downtown. As well, Calgary is home to DeVry Career College's only Canadian campus.
School system
In the year 2005 roughly 97,000 students attended K-12 in about 215 schools in the English language public school system run by the Calgary Board of Education. Another 43,000 attend about 93 schools in the separate English language Calgary Catholic School District board. The much smaller Francophone community has their own French language school boards (public and Catholic), which are both based in Calgary, but serve a larger regional district.
However, the city's light rail system (the C-Train) has the highest ridership (both in total and on a per capita basis) of any North American light-rail system with an average of 271,100 boardings per weekday in the fourth quarter of 2007.
With the redevelopment of the Beltline and the Downtown East Village at the forefront, efforts are underway to vastly increase the density of the inner city, but the sprawl continues. In 2003, the combined population of the downtown neighbourhoods (the Downtown Commercial Core, the Downtown East Village, the Downtown West End, Eau Claire, and Chinatown) was just over 12,600.