Stampede Breakfasts: Calgary Stampede

Calgary Stampede: The annual parade Friday drew hundreds of thousands of people to the downtown core, people are once again festooned in cowboy hats, boots and jeans and families flock to free Stampede breakfasts, according to Huffington Post. Just two weeks after 75,000 people were evacuated from their homes due to massive flooding from both the Elbow and Bow Rivers in Calgary and the total decimation in the town of High River, 60 kilometres to the south, there's a fragility to the area and CALGARY - All the outward trappings are there but there is something missing from the 2013 Calgary Stampede. But the annual cowboy festival is lacking the usual political partisanship that has traditionally been tantamount to the so-called "Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.