Here we go again: the City of Calgary makes some ludicrous, arbitrary decision that frustrates citizens and then spends ratepayers’ money trying to persuade us we’re wrong and they’re right.

This time, it involves the renaming of historic Fort Calgary with the ugly-sounding moniker The Confluence. It’s another ham-fisted attempt by city hall to rebrand history, this time erasing the name associated with the birth of Calgary itself and replacing it with some bland, geographical term that’s supposedly infused with the magic of inclusion.

Sure, various people were living on this slice of land long before Fort Calgary came into existence 150 years ago, following the arrival of the North West Mounted Police under the overall command of Col. James Macleod.

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