Calgary city hall top boss David Duckworth ducked the axe. He got better than he deserved.

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Let’s start by cutting the baloney you’re being fed by those who swallow whatever line the city hall sausage factory pushes out on any given day.

Let’s remember if the city of Calgary election last fall had turned out just a little differently Duckworth would have been on the chopping block as soon as the new mayor and new city council took over.

That would have been Job Number One. Out with the old, in with the new. Time for big change. A clean break from the Naheed Nenshi-Jyoti Gondek years.

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A very long 15 years. Nenshi 11. Gondek 4.

There would have been a shake-up.

You know, the kind of shake-up corporations make happen when they need to up their game. You know, the kind of shake-up sports teams do when they’re facing a rebuild.

But, alas, it was not to be, most Calgarians slept through the election and Duckworth ducked the axe.

Then, during the........

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