downtown revitalization: Crowds are streaming in on foot, and cars are lined up for blocks, according to Globe and Mail. Everyone heading to the downtown mosque, the Markaz ul Islam, trying to make it in time for afternoon prayers.FORT MACA year-long project about Fort McMurray Alta., which has come to be the emblem of Canada energy sector - and all the issues that surround it.MORE FROM THE PROJECTExpropriation, unused land, falling oil, public anger: Fort McMurray downtown revitalization goes awryIn oil boomtown Fort McMurray, ‘it like the place has gone dead’Success eludes recent migrants as Fort Mac braces for TFW falloutA man from West Africa comes in with one from Pakistan, walking past an SUV whose licence plate sits in a frame marked Dubai. It Friday at noon, and a balmy minus 5 – pretty good for Fort McMurray in late November. Somali cab drivers are parking, taking a break from their shifts. Others arrive in bright yellow construction vests, on their way back from the oil sands. Most of the faithful are wearing parkas, some with a shalwar kameez underneath.
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