I want to say this loud and clear in a post here for everyone to see, but there is an issue here with people having this giant hate boner for Albertans. Not the government, not UCP voters, but Albertans.
It doesn’t matter if you’re politically on the same side as people elsewhere in the country, it doesn’t matter if you present facts to people who are provably wrong on the most basic of things they say, it doesn’t matter if you treat them with dignity and respect by mentioning things with good intentions and not insulting people. You will still get labelled as the bad guy for the very fact you’re Albertan.
I made a response to a comment on this post in the community. My comment was responding to someone who called Albertans “HUGE pussies” for “giving up our rights”.
In my response to said comment, I basically said that the notion that we’re “simply giving up” is completely false, using the following facts:
- Students have been staging walkouts:
- CBC: Calgary students among thousands across Alberta taking part in provincewide walkout
- Global News: Alberta students walk out of class in support of teachers forced back to work
- OkotoksOnline: High River students walkout in support of teachers
- The AFL (Alberta Federation of Labour) has stated that they will retaliate against the back to work order with a “general strike if necessary”
- Global News: ‘General strike if necessary’: Alberta unions declare intent to bring down UCP government
- CPAC: Alberta Union Leaders Respond to Smith Government’s Back-to-Work Legislation
- CityNews Calgary: No general strike yet as Alberta labour unions mobilize against Smith government
- The UCP has faced a dip in the polls resulting from the back-to-work order
- CTV News: Majority of Alberta Gov’t Report Card respondents feel province headed in wrong direction
- Angus Reid: Teachers’ Strike: Most Albertans side with teachers as they criticize UCP’s handling of education
- Calgary Herald: ‘Reputational challenges’: New poll shows public support for Smith, UCP has dipped amid teachers’ strike (Yes I know it’s PostMedia, it’s still relevant and correct in this case)
I went ahead and said that statements like this that blanket Albertans as lazy, dumb, and inept do not help relations between the province and the rest of the country, especially when the actions being taken showcase the exact opposite.
For this, I was labelled as a conservative myself when I’m registered with the NDP provincially and federally, had myself and those around me insulted, and was told I was uneducated by someone who spewed blatantly incorrect information as they did so, and I was the one looked down upon in the entire interaction simply for where I’m from.
I suggested that in order for the NDP or Liberals, or anybody to win over Albertans, they need to address issues here. I gave the example of canola farmers suffering, and how the feds can tariff imported cooking oils to encourage consumers to choose a domestic alternative and/or have marketing campaigns to support canola farmers by increasing their domestic sales.
For this, someone insinuated that I am dumber than them simply based on what they assumed to be the school system I attended. The very same person who said this confidently made another comment where they claimed that the NDP was in charge for a “long time” before Peter Lougheed, and that Lougheed ran on diversifying the economy, and ditched the effort afterwards.
This is provably false. The NDP formed government for the first time in 2015, it was the Social Credit Party who came before Lougheed’s Progressive Conservatives. Lougheed also established the Heritage Fund , which was made specifically to save money for investments in other sectors of Alberta’s economy, the disaster of the fund came with the following leaders.
However, calling someone out for getting their facts wrong, and showcasing a current example of tariffs working to protect domestic goods gets you downvoted if you’re Albertan, with the very people insulting your intelligence getting upvoted as they spew their nonsense.
Apparently explaining working-class issues and what left-wing parties can do to better reach those who normally vote Conservative is treating Alberta as “special” and forcing “everyone else to adapt” to us. Clearly the “majority” of people in Alberta are “hateful morons” and “insular xenophobes” .
Why do people continue to blanket me with the thoughts of a few bad apples they met? Are they more prominent here, sure, whatever, I can agree to that. I can agree that people here can be some of the worst you’ve met, I would know, I live here.
But me and the good, well-meaning people I know, especially those here who are marginalised or among the over 750,000 people who voted for the NDP the last election, do not appreciate having blanket statements made against us simply because we live here. I am pro-abortion, I am pro-immigration, I am pro-expanding healthcare, pro-creating public alternatives, pro-trans rights, anti-privatisation, anti-separatist, and yet sure, I’m a Conservative tip-toeing a line because my thoughts slightly deviate from the norm.
Hate the government, hate the jerks, do not hate me simply for where I’m born and the fact that I live here. I do not do this to you, I do not insult people for where they live or were born, and don’t make blanket assumptions about the entire population of an area based on who’s in power where they live. Why then is it seen as acceptable for this to happen to me?
I am an Albertan who doesn’t want special treatment, but for fuck sake, it is reasonable to want to be treated with respect.
Edit: I don’t know why the numbered lists are showing all as 1’s, I have them properly numbered in the text of this post.
I’m at the same time terribly sorry that you get so much flack for things you’re not responsible for. But you also you’re the one responsible for growing a patience bone and understanding that this is just how stereotypes work, and almost literally everyone in this world carries a few of these on their backs. Hope you can use this experience to empathize with how other communities struggle with their own stereotypes, and incorporate that in your activism.
But the contrary seems to be happening, you seem to be missing the opportunity to self reflect. You’re not respectfully asking for respect, so you won’t get much. I understand you might have some emotions running high right now, but then again you don’t seem to be giving others any leeway either.
What do you mean by “this place”? I see more hate towards anyone conservative leaning than I do towards Alberta. I say this as a Liberal at heart too.
Everybody loves a scapegoat.
I’m in an Albertan union. WTF is taking so long with this general strike? Our union voted in favour, I don’t know the percentage, and a friend of mine told me their union voted 93% in favour of it.
I think a lot more people here are more sympathetic for Albertans than we’re given credit for. We all watched the run-up to the Battle River-Crowfoot federal by-election, and can clearly see there are lots of people that care for their neighbours and are working hard to break the mould.
Yes, but as a person here it is a bit jarring to be labeled that way, when it does happen. And it feeds into the exact alienation that Danielle Smith won on.
We all watched the run-up to the Battle River-Crowfoot federal by-election
The ironic thing being that’s a more straight example of Alberta being a conservative wasteland. I had conversations with people from there that started with how much they hated PP, and then seamlessly moved into how to correctly vote for him, with no warning or acknowledgement of the irony. IIRC he won with 80%+.
Although that also illustrates it’s more brand loyalty than genuine regressiveness, even in the most rural areas.
The AB gov’t effectively just told Albertans that they have no rights, just privileges subject to the UCP’s whims by using the not withstanding clause twice. Where’s the pushback beyond talk? Smith is trying to normalize its use, and contribute to stripping our rights federally, straight from the playbook down south. Poilievre literally just said he’d use it.
We’re in an uncertain time and suffering at the whims of an American madman, and AB has sided with him. I think it’s safe to say YOU haven’t, and honestly most Albertans haven’t, but your gov’t has.
We live in a democracy, and like it or not, we’re defined by our gov’ts. The majority may not have voted for Danielle Smith’s UCP, but the majority absolutely did not vote to stop it.
Ya gotta understand, you live in the most American province in a time when America just started a trade war with us and threatened annexation.
For fuck’s sake you guys are up for a referendum next year to separate which could lead to the destruction of both AB and Canada. Honestly, I think there’s a good chance it’ll pass simply due to voter apathy. We’re in a threatened country, and even within our country, Alberta is threatening it.
Alberta has made it clear, maybe not you or yours, but Alberta has made it clear it doesn’t want Canada. I lived in AB for over a decade, and it’s full of good people. But good people mean nothing when they do nothing.
The separation referendum is being stalled by a referendum to stay within Canada, where the petition to start it has already received enough signatures to start the referendum at 456K signatures.
Polling for separation is laughably low. This is not something that will happen, and not something legally feasible because of Treaty rights, and other numerous legal barriers. Smith herself has admitted she herself does not support separation, but has felt backed into a corner by her base as she fears a party split handing the NDP a win next election cycle more than she does the referendum succeeding, as she sees the former as a far more likely scenario. This can already be seen with the variety of right-wing parties in Alberta as opposed to the province’s left-wing being much more unified behind one party. Basically all this is an issue that could solved by implementing proportional representation in the province.
The pushback is currently being coordinated, it has only been a week since the back-to-work order, I personally feel it is way too early to judge a lack of action, but regardless students have been pushing back in the meantime the labour movement sorts things out on their end.
I do appreciate being distinguished as an individual and not as a part of the government or the worst of the crowd that voted them in.
It stalled nothing. If either got enough votes it would go to referendum, they just beat the separatists to the punch to turn the question into a positive (from our perspective) from a negative. If neither got enough votes it wouldn’t go to referendum.
The danger now is that the positive got enough sigs, almost 200k more than necessary, that I’m worried Albertans will become complacent as Canadians do, and figure “it got so many votes it won’t pass so why bother”. Just. Like. Brexit.
We’ve literally seen this play out less than ten years ago. Don’t let your guard down, this isn’t about the number of people who want to separate, it’s about using the apathy of the majority.
Also, if you believe Smith is only trying to ‘placate’ her base and you believe her, wake the fuck up.
No, the reason that a volunteer army of 6000 was able to collect 456,000 signatures to STAY in Canada is exactly because Albertans are NOT apathetic. The only reason you even hear about the ‘separatist movement’ and the wingnut Republican Party of Alberta is because the press giving them oxygen. There is very LITTLE appetite for separation here. Disgruntlement about the way AB gets treated by the federal government, yes, but separation, no. Its already dead. They wont get enough signatures to cause a separation referendum and this silly movement will die once and for all.
I’ve lived here more than 40 years and I have yet to meet ONE person who thinks separation is a good idea. And Ive seen a site promoting it, but the whole site used AI “Albertans” to present its arguments - not a single real Albertan. No one will even admit to creating the site, and no one is willing to go on national media and say they are heading up this movement. Its bullshit from a few wingnuts who are pretending they have momentum. They dont.
They wont get enough signatures to cause a separation referendum and this silly movement will die once and for all.
This IS a separation referendum, it’s just framed as a positive statement (stay) instead of a negative one (leave). This petition wasn’t about Alberta staying in Canada, it was literally about “do you want the question of separation framed this way on the referendum ballot?” Whether the seperatists got their way and got sigs to ask “should AB be it’s own soverign nation?” or the stay group got sigs to ask “should AB stay in Canada?” the result is the same: next year there will be a question on the referendum ballot about separation. It’s much better having this question than the alternative, but it’s still a risk.
My concern now is that the stay crowd got well beyond the number of signatues they need, which suggests Albertans don’t want to separate. This is great, but the danger is the same danger in every election in Canada: the non-voters. There’s every chance that when this question is up for referendum, too many Albertans are gonna think “why bother voting? There’s no way it’s gonna pass, look how many sigs they got” and stay home. Mark my words, every single separatist is gonna vote. This is literally how Brexit passed. We’ve seen this happen. Voter apathy is very real, and might end up sinking the province.
I dont think most people saw it as a separation referendum. They saw it as a 'lets shut up those silly separatists cause we’re Canadians now and forever.
The question, exactly as written, was “Do you agree that Alberta should remain in Canada?”
Im not worried about apathy. When our place in Canada was questioned, we came out in droves, far more than actually needed. That’ll happen again when its time to vote.
This is the application.
“Therefore, we as represented by the signatory and applicant below propose a referendum on the following question: Do you agree that Alberta should remain in Canada?”
I understand most people didn’t see as a separation referendum, but that is what it is. Arguably, if a referendum is called regardless (as the application suggests) it’s better to have this question rather than the sovereign one, but I’d much prefer separation didn’t go to referendum at all.
I really hope Albertans get out and vote. The last referendum in 2021 (equalization and daylight savings) only saw 38.71% of eligible Albertans vote. Smith once said, if I remember correctly, that separation has about 20% approval (which I suspect is bullshit). If true though, there’s a chance that this referendum could see the same turnout, 39%. Every separatist will vote ‘no’, so potentially 20% of that 39%, which is the majority.
The danger that I see here is that the petition got so many more votes than necessary that Albertans will just assume it won’t pass and won’t bother voting.
The silly bitch is the one handing the election to the NDP on a silver platter with her ridiculous posturing over education and social conservatism bullshit. If she acted like a statesman, she wouldn’t be facing this prospect.
She’s just padding her nest and looking for the soft landing when she gets ejected.
:) The UCP are very popular in AB. Smith is standing up for a lot of things that Albertans want, which is why we have voted conservative for the last 50 years except for that small window with Rachel Notleys NDP.
Where’s the pusbback beyond talk?
https://operationtotalrecall.ca/
Someone made a list of all the MLAs who voted in favor of forcing the teachers back. Some are in various processes like they are at the Gathering Signatures point for Demetrios Nicolaides.
An article on it here:
In fact Elections Alberta asked for additional funding and the UCP blocked it.
I think that a big part of the problem is that many of the people who publicly identify as Albertans are loud mouthed, unnecessarily huge transsexual pick up truck driving, toxicly masculine,l “alpha male”, racist, separatist, Mah rights spewing sovereign citizen, anti-vax tantrumist maple MAGAts.
I love the rest of you but fuck those guys.
I live in northern BC and there are a lot of those types around here.
I live in rural Ontario. Same here. There are dumbth everywhere.
Southern BC too!
Is there a lot of people like that identifying as Albertan, or do you identify people doing that IRL as Albertan, which would be a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Like, those guys exist and are a highly visible small minority here, but I have a strong feeling Ontarian Doug Ford voters do similar things.
As an aside, are there Alberta separatists living outside of Alberta? I can actually believe they’d be that dumb and oblivious to irony, but damn.
I feel like an alien in Alberta. I’m surrounded by insanity. Mostly Take Back Albertans too, like the real insane shit. My neighbor thinks that because we don’t prey in schools anymore this is why children are hellions. All the world’s problems start with us not praying in schools, makes the kids go gay. I’m not even making this up. I’ve gotten quite adept at ninja rolling through the bushes to avoid run-ins with them.
FWIW your neighbor is unusual. Alberta is actually the second most atheist province. Even the chuddery tends to be the sleazy strip club kind, as opposed to religious.
Just an FYI, you pray to God and Conservatives prey on school children.
Yeah the UCP is questionably concerned about where my kids go to the bathroom. What is it with cons and bathrooms, anyways?
Modern JCI religious adherents are extremely focused on genitals. You should not touch your own genitals. You should only touch genitals that are not like yours. You should only touch the genitals of the person with genitals unlike yours who you are married to and only for the purposes of procreation. If you are unmarried and anyone has touched your genitals you are not worthy of marriage. Only people with the right kind of genitals can be clergy. You should only use your genitals in the way that they are used for procreation. You should not modify your genitals. If you are unmarried and use your genitals and become pregnant then you should be forced to carry that fetus to term. You should be denied the means to use your genitals with reduced possibility of becoming pregnant or catching a disease. You should not dressed in a way that people you don’t know and will likely every meet don’t think align with the type of genitals the people isn’t at your birth decided you have. No one should be able to read stories about anyone who touches the genitals of someone who has genitals like theirs, or who feels that they have the wrong type of genitals, or who uses their genitals outside of marriage. No one should teach children about their genitals, or the use of their genitals, or about consent because that would make it more difficult for adults to touch their genitals without anyone finding out.
I mean, does that cover it? Are they focused on anything other than what I’ve listed?
I said somewhere else that I live in rural eastern Ontario and I’m surrounded by maple MAGA dumbth.
Yeah, exactly.
You do see some of that in Ontario too, but it’s not a major political force here in the same way as Alberta. In Ontario their political will is more offset by the NDP, leaving the Conservatives and Liberals to battle for centrists in the middle.
In Alberta it seems that no one will vote Liberal, leaving the NDP to battle it out with the Conservatives, which mean that most of the time the Cons can just count on the centrist swing votes and pander to their base to win.
I think Alberta seems a lot more dogmatic to the rest of the country mostly because they have only elected PC governments despite their massive failings, until the brief fling with the NDP after decades and decades of mismanagement.
That being said, a lot of the recent extremism in Alberta has to do with that aide to Danielle Smith. She’s a huge pile of crap who originally pushed Doug Ford to be a lot more extreme and divisive, and once they fell out she went to D Smith and D Ford mellowed out somewhat.
The NDP basically is the Liberal party here. It’s headed by Nenshi, who historically wouldn’t commit to a side between conservatives and liberals, and they’re thinking about dropping the name entirely. Forget about the labels and federal politics.
You have to remember that before the 40 year Conservative dynasty there was a 40 year Social Credit dynasty. The elections weren’t contested, and brand loyalty especially in rural areas is still insane. Post-Notley everything is new and different, and crazy promises about having our cake and eating it too are fueling Danielle Smith’s populist movement, which has hollowed out the UCP.
Dude, you’re one of the worst offenders of what OP is talking about here. I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve seen your “albertamagastan” comments.
Albertamagastan. Hehehe. That’s awesome!
A serious comment, my Albertamagastan comments are about the government. Danielle Smith tried to eliminate the legislature from the process of law making, essentially making herself the Queen of Alberta, like Trump. They are virtue signaling by attacking LGBTQ+ children, like Trump. They tried to ban books that included non-monogamous heterosexual Christian sexuality from school libraries The parallels are numerous and terrifying.
I know that not everyone in Alberta is a fascist bootlicker but there are a lot of them in government and there are a good number of very vocal ones not in government.
Just my observation but it seems your beef with the UCP is personal, not so much political ideology. Theyve done something to affect your life on a personal level? You dont have to answer, just making an observation.
I’m not sure why you would think that but, no, I don’t have a horse in the race other than the fact that the neo-fascist rot in Alberta might spread to infect other parts of the country. My beef with the UCP is purely ideological. I am an anti-fascist born of an ti-fascist stock. My grandfather was in the RCAF as a tail gunner in a Lancaster bomber flying out of the UK into Europe fighting back the Nazi/fascist scourge and I believe, as he did, that fascism must be stopped.
I believe that EVERYONE is equal, not that white, “Christian” men are more equal. I believe in science, not nonsense. The UCP are maple Trumpist fascist bootlickers playing from the same playbook and singing to the choir of dumbth that believe that weapons grade bullshit.
Oh, I’ve seen you paint with a broad brush, but I’m not going to bother to go creeping on your profile to find examples, though “AlbertaMagaStan” stuck out because I saw you use it 3 or 4 times in a day.
Suffice to say, I’ve tried to see some of your comments as just UCP/Smith/PP hate, but it can be tough. And I (and many of the people that I farm near) utterly despise those toxic chucklefucks so getting painted with that brush pisses me off.
Albertamagastan refers to the province, just as MAGAstan refers to the US. Not everyone in Afghanistan agrees with the government but its still Afghanistan. Not everyone in MAGAstan agrees with the Trump fascists and Trumpist bootlickers but its still MAGAstan. You and your farmer neighbours don’t make the policies but enough of the voters in your province voted for the nut job and her party that they formed a majority government. The same thing happened in Ontario. The Ford government is the most openly corrupt government in Ontario history. I didn’t vote for him and I don’t support him but I’m not butthurt when people point out that the Ontario government is corrupt. It is.
The government of Alberta is playing directly from the Project 2025 playbook.
Tell your neighbors to stop being bigoted hicks and literal Nazis, and people won’t look down on your right-wing community.
Alberta is the Texas of Canada
Way to perpetuate the discrimination that OP was pointing out. Geez. 🙄
The literal white supremacists in the United States pretend like the mean condescending libs “made them” behave like Nazis. I remember these exact same dynamics between city libs and bigoted rural alt-right
In truth they were always like that, and no amount of coddling them would have prevented it.
Enough shame might have worked though.
Yeah, but are you going to assume that just because someone is from a rura area that they’re automatically alt-right nazis? Or, alternatively, that because someone is from a metropolitan area that they’re not going to be bigoted assholes? Don’t you think this is a bit prejudicial? I think that’s what OP meant. At least that’s how I undertand it.
Like they pointed out, just because they’re Albertan, they’re immediately categorized into this alt-right conervative demographic. They also provided proof that there is a progressive movement in Alberta that’s protesting conservative ideologies.
"Why do people keep categorizing these French people as french? I feel like it’s disrespectful. "
If you think it’s disrespectful to acknowledge the political values of a community then that’s a you problem.
If Alberta becomes a progressive place policy wise for long enough people won’t make those associations, people make those associations because those provinces are controlled by the right.
"Why do people keep categorizing these French people as french? I feel like it’s disrespectful. "
There’s a BIG difference between assuming someone is French because they speak French and assuming someone has a specific political view because they are from a geographical location. That’s a really poor example.
Anyway, do whatever you want. If you want to be a prejudicial bigot and automatically classify people based on your own generalized stereotypical view of them, don’t complain if people start criticizing you.
Elect someone who isn’t right wing and people will stop assuming the population is right wing
It has nothing to do with prejudice, you aren’t a victim in this context. Sorry
So you’re just going to round up every Albertan in the same group and treat them all the same regardless if they are progressives trying to fight to turn things around or not. Got it.
From your perspective, what are the major problems your province needs fixed?
Hear Hear!
To all Albertans who aren’t living in ideology ( ANY ideology: I now think they’re damned mind-parasites, trying to destroy our world, the same as rabies-viruses collaborate to do-so, to the lives they infect ),
& there are many, gratitude to you for your culture of saying what you mean, & meaning what you say, which much of the rest of Canada could benefit significantly from…
I’ve never been there, but an Albertan made a big impression on my mind, decades ago, at an accessibility meeting, then I knew some former-Albertans & they were good people, too, years later.
Also, there was a program running in Afghanistan, & what it did was it got Afghani people to be employed outside of the drug-industry, & outside of the endless warlordism…
They sometimes literally paid people to move hills, by hand, if that’s what it took to get people out from the cycles which kept drowning their country…
It was winning…
( then Trump signed an agreement with somebody to pull the US out from Afghanistan, gutting everything )
I don’t know what that program was called, but it took an Albertan to run it.
( read about it perhaps 1.5 decades ago, in some newspaper ).
Gratitude for that, too.
ALL of our provinces & territories have ideologues, who try to increase their importance/significance through making themselves look bigger than they are, right?
We need to out-compete the ideologues.
That is how we win Natural Selection!
Namaste, & Kaizen, fellow Canuckians!
_ /\ _
Having an issue with “ideology” is like disliking pronouns, it’s a part of everyday life that you can’t just sensibly try to distance yourself from
So you’re hating on all of us because one person generalized? Curious.
I have absolutely no stake in this, but that’s not how I read it.
They are stating it’s something they are encountering with some frequency and then they are giving a concrete example and analysis to hopefully illustrate what they are experiencing.
I’m sure you are familiar with the experience of being frustrated with someone’s behavior or actions, but then have a hard time coming up with more than a couple of examples when prompted.
I haven’t been keeping score, but everything OP said matches what I’ve noticed. I used to come here on my Beehaw account and literally couldn’t see the downvotes since Beehaw ignores them, but since I switched, the mass downvoting anytime anyone from Alberta posts is very noticeable. More broadly, people seem to largely be doing one of the shitty things I left Reddit and moved to Beehaw for: using the downvote button as “disagree” instead of what it should be: “not contributing to the conversation”.
I wish more instances removed downvoting; it just accelerates the move to an echo chamber, furthering polarization. I honestly don’t understand what they add.
If it’s hateful/prejudiced, then report it for removal. If it’s incorrect, then ratio them in the comments with your thoughtful response.
More broadly, people seem to largely be doing one of the shitty things I left Reddit and moved to Beehaw for: using the downvote button as “disagree” instead of what it should be: “not contributing to the conversation”.
This is splitting straws. This distinction never made sense anyway
Nah bruv. There’s a world of difference.
4. Upvote and Downvote Responsibly
Upvote: Content you find useful, interesting, or entertaining.
Downvote: Content that is off-topic, unhelpful, or violates community guidelines—not just because you disagree with it.
Why it matters: Misusing the voting system can lead to valuable posts being buried.What’s the fucking point of comments at all if anyone who raises a contrasting opinion is downvoted into invisibility?
The point is that the usefulness of a tool is determined by how people use it, not what it was created for. Downvotes will always be used as “i dont like this” unless their mechanics change
anyone who raises a contrasting opinion is downvoted into invisibility
Also this a great exaggeration. We’re defending contrasting opinions right now and that’s not happening.
Sorry, I thought the context of that quote was clear:
I was referring to raising a contrasting political opinion in defense of Albertans, as that’s the context for this entire discussion.
It’s worth remembering that dividing the country and making us hate each other inherently leads to polarization, which inherently leads to completely unaligned parties succeeding each other which leads to wild amounts of waste and inefficiency from government as it swings back and forth between extremely different agendas.
There is a reason that our geopolitical enemies spend billions on campaigns to try and create division and hate. It truly does weaken us as a country.
It’s also worth remembering that the divisions we’re dealing with now were not brought on by my neighbours or myself. There’s a shit ton of rich assholes out there who understand that if they don’t manipulate the rabble (us) to hate each other, we’ll remember we’re supposed to be forming posses to take care of them.
So true. Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are billionaires because they’ve learned to manipulate our entire society into hating each other. They will have some 'splainin to do sooner or later.
Québec: “Première fois?”
And as Quebec would say, 50% + 1 is all you need to be declared a shitty province.
I was born in Calgary. I lived in Alberta for 27 years of my 49.
In my lived experience: a lot of this disdain is earned. Albertans are entitled as fuck.
my brother lives there and i feel bad for him
