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Calgary, I have some news we can all be proud of, and wave all around.

We’ve found a new city flag. And it’s pretty cool.

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Earlier this year, inspired by the retirement of MLA, alderman and original flag designer Yvonne Fritz, your Hall Monitor launched a contest for a less Arby’s-esque flag for the City of Calgary.

As design podcast wizard Roman Mars said in a fantastic recent TedX talk, it says a lot about your city’s flag if nobody knows it exists. And that seemed to be the case in Calgary, with a rather 1980s flag few thought much about.

We sent this search out to you, the readers and design ninjas of Calgary. The irresistible prize: lunch for two (winner and me) at Arby’s. However, the Internet being the Internet, this contest didn’t stay in Calgary. It made it to Reddit — which perhaps one day I’ll try to understand — and we got design proposals from China, Portugal and Chicago. Truly impressed. Lots of thoughtful symbolism and interesting ideas.