They’re trying very hard to be Texas north. The Premier of the province is ignoring science and, in many cases, logic. Anti-vax. That’s one reason they have more measles than the entire USA. There is even a fringe group that wants Alberta to secede from Canada and join the US.
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treadful@lemmy.zip 9 months agohmm, I was thinking about visiting Calgary this summer. What’s up with Alberta?
gramie@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
gramie already mostly answered in line with what I’d say: there is an alt-right political shift there, where the lunatics are running the asylum and we keep expecting for sanity to re-emerge. Every country has a pocket like this somewhere. Most people in Calgary are perfectly nice, in the same way that most people in Omaha are perfectly nice, until a trans person is on TV.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 9 months ago
The NDP just won 2/3 of last weeks byelections here. We do have a loud minority voice of right wing crazy but if anything the province is moving away from the right.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Wish you luck 🤞
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 9 months ago
I am involved in local governance here and its not fun under the UCP but its not the bleak right wing hellscape the rest of the nation says it is.