I did have to laugh during the referendum because the only signs absolutely destroyed were the pro separatists ones. Some one in Cochrane really hated separatists.

You're not wrong about the imported hate. I'm old enough to remember when the population doubled 20 years ago in less than 5 years. A lot of the people who washed out of polite society in other provinces picked up a shovel and headed here. A lot of "dyed in the wool Albertans" are actually just other provinces trash taking themselves out, and we ended up their landfill.

I still believe there's enough people to win. Even in the small towns, there's a lot more of us than there looks like, we just don't go around broadcasting it because the right tends to resort to violence and vandalism.

Ironic how they always go on about crime and drugs while their own people are shooting meth and assaulting people.

Far too many people in Alberta think "woke mind virus" is a real thing, west is under attack from muslims and trans people are forcing life changing medical interventions on all children.

They are the type who think public executions should be brought back.

Of course the entire province isn't like that. But there are far too many crazies and bigots in Alberta. Alberta also imports lots of crazies and bigots from other provinces. Oil patch is full of them.

UCP winning again won't shock me one bit. Especially when NDP got a brown muslim dude as their leader. It's great that the party itself is mature enough to elect him. Rural voters in Alberta aren't.

I would agree with you, but you haven’t met my neighbours.

You don’t need to worry about me, but at the same time I won’t exactly be holding my breath. Not just yet anyways. The thing is about the NDP, is the UCP will swoop in the week before the election, and they won’t have an answer for it. Just like last time. How people keep buying their bullshit, I just can’t even.

Nenshi is so much better than this genitals obsessed psycho in charge right now. Unfortunately, there are people who will not vote for him because he checks 1 or more biases in their life.

They want you to believe there's no hope. Look at the referendum results. Even the (badly worded and misleading) questions that Alberta voted in ways that hurt our province, the outcome was close, even in most of the most backwards and disconnected rural counties. Nearly half the province, doesn't want this. Yes, half our neighbours are clearly insane. Half aren't. We were 4 ridings from having an NDP government last Election, and people were a lot less angry at the UCP then. I know how easy it is to see only obstacles, but you still have neighbours who are willing to stand with you and support you. We're just struggling to connect and be heard because the powers that be are using every dirty trick in the book to keep us divided and alone.

There. Is. Hope. Smith et al. win when we stop believing that. Canada means community. Like literally, that's approximately the literal translation. We can do this if we work together. That's what it means to be Canadian.

I would not hold my breath. Albertans seem determined to vote against their interests at every turn.

Alberta will just replace her with another right wing Fascist. She's not the problem, she's just a symptom.

Hmmm....maybe she should shut down those woke universities.

One year to election day. Start your engines. The race for sanity begins now.

What we have is an American ownership problem. Americans own the oil patch. The oil patch owns Alberta. The majority of the traitors are concentrated in Grande Prairie. Why? Oil. The rest of rural counties are all half filled with traitors. Why? That's where rig pigs buy houses. They have a city problem because they can't import enough bodies to displace the loyal Canadians there. As long as the Americans own our oil, and their pet politicians make sure it's the only profitable industry in the province, nothing is going to change.

Yeah, she should jump off a bridge about it

I'm definitely not saying it will be easy, I had to restart from scratch, but even with nothing being somwhere that was even remotely sane was such a huge difference. I'm not saying you have to or even that you should, but if you started looking for an escape route I will say I have no regrets pursuing mine.

Alberta has a Danielle Smith problem

Fuck that.

Alberta has a traitor problem.

Definitely hitting the priorities right on the head here. These are definitely needed and what we should be prioritizing! (Said nobody ever)

Berta has money to burn apparently.

Fuck them both.

Oh, the number I was thinking of was 7% of the total voting poluace. I think I heard it on a Fifth Estate bit about the Alberta seperarist movement. I didn't realize the referendum "Leave" numbers were that high...

If you actually use reputable sources, you'll notice O'Leary and Smith met because of the data centre he wants to build in Alberta. Now, not a popular thing I know, but it wasn't separation. So please criticize for real events, not some invented events.

Did they meet to overthrow Canada? Did they meet with the likes of Shark tank billionaire boy wonder? Are they trying to hide the fact that they went to mara lago to meet secretly with fascists? Did they make a "deal" to give away strategic resources to a foreign government? I think not. Try again.

25% is a "tiny minority" when the question voted on was "yes or no" statistically. It would appear even smaller when it was reported that if it had been a binding the "yes" vote to leave would have been closer to 10%. However I see your point and I am just happy that the voters of Alberta didn't go down the asinine path of separatism.

Now you're just repeating stuff you read on Facebook. If you have a reference, please post it and I'll read it.

They did not speak with an American funded Think tank focused on succession like she did. This is just a bad faith argument. Even my concervative father finds it laughable that the alberten cons are turning on her for "not supporting sepratists" when quote "thats all she ever talk about"

I want them to leave so bad, I just don't want them to be replaced by some other monoculture.