Sometimes you read a city slogan and you wonder what the town forefathers were thinking when they came up with it. There was a time when someone imagined that travellers and business investors would find the “Land of Rape and Honey” in Tisdale, Sask,. irresistible. Fortunately, that time has passed. Their new slogan is “opportunity grows here.” The City of Ottawa also ditched the old slogan “Ottawa — technically beautiful,” which by all accounts was technically a disaster. The trouble is, when you give up a slogan, you have to reprint every sign with that slogan on it before you can truly put the name behind you. Medicine Hat has quite a few signs and monuments that still display their longtime slogan, “the Gas City.” When I first read the slogan on the city’s welcome sign, I didn’t like it, but as I explored the city and learned more about its history, it grew on me and so did the city.