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Canadian Pacific plans to move headquarters by the end of 2013
Just like he did at CN moving US headquarters from downtown Chicago to the Homewood office a mile away from the electric line.
Speaking of Calgary’s light rail ( C Train ) system, in 2012 it had around 263,000 daily boardings, outstanding for population of just over 1.1 million…rode the system extensively during recent visits.
VIVA LA HARRI$ON
VIVA LA C P R
$MART MAN LOOK AT HI$ RECORD
$$$$$$ DOING AWAY WITH " WA$TE ’ THAT CO$T$ ALL OF U$
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HOW CAN ANYONE COMPARE HARRI$ON ( THE BO$$ ) WITH ANYONE EL$E OF COUR$E HE $HOULD KEEP HI$ DOWN TOWN OFFICE
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE $HARE$ IN THE C P R - IF NONE -KEEP QUIET - YOU DO NOT HAVE AN OPINION…
BLEEDING HEART$
Now I knoe why he’s called Hunter…Because he kills morale 
Was it really cheaper in the first place to even move CP out of Montreal? Is not the cost of living and doing business in the West more expensive, and with all the space available in Ottawa or Toronto, Ont… would this not have been a better decision way back when??
Maybe the help just needs to see what a trains looks like.
Wow…now thats a prestigious address!
You beat me to the thought, Susan.
I bet Hunter keeps his downtown office.
1100 employees will move from a downtown area well-served by light rail. Probably most use it.
Now 1100 people will have to drive their cars to get to work. CP “saves” money, but how much does the move really cost its employees and the environment.
Harrison, of course, could not care less about either.
Just wait until Hunter gets really going and he will probably have nearly half of the 1100 cut off before the move starts…Look what he did to the IC and CN…He cares only about what the stock does and less about the working employees…
maybe with all the money they save ,they could donate a portion for seed money to get a new lite rail line to the new headquarters.
Susan’s comment is in-sightful! Maybe the CEO will run a ‘Doodle-bug’ from the downtown station, for employees?
Good solution to an old problem. Odds are most of the office people are completely clueless when it comes to what the real employees who make everything operate, have to put up with. If CP really wants to bring reality to the office people, stick them out in the snow with the real workers and have them just stand there and observe. Don’t touch. Don’t interrupt. Don’t get in the way. Just observe. After about two weeks of that for each office person, CP will find out really fast which ones are worth keeping. And the ones that do make the cut will have a new respect for those who do the real work and make the railroad operate.
Put all office workers out in the snow, eh because it is assumed they are clueless? That kind of “re-education” has been tried before --by Joseph Stalin (not to mention Pol Pot).
Downtown Calgary very expensive real estate with the oil and gas business. Calgary is the financial hub of Canada’s oil and gas industry. Much cheaper in the 'burbs. Are Fort Worth (BNSF), Omaha (UP), Norfolk (NS) and Jacksonville (CSX) prestigious locales? Hardly. Sounds like a reasonable move by CP, at least they’re not moving to a different city!
Mr. Johnson;
Last time I looked CN headoffice was in downtown Montreal, two blocks east of the FORMER CP headoffice. Which is now vacant.
CP likely figured out that with all the fuel spills, that they could never sell the Ogden property. But thats a good location, as traffic in Calgary is crazy, and having most of their operations together just makes sense.
Good move CPR.