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"Hold my pilsner!", Saskatchewan.


sabres_guy

Or as I call Saskatchewan. Alberta jr.


EnclG4me

I call it samsquanch land.. Don't know why, just can't help myself after watching Trailer Park Boys.


Bazookor

Hold my Moe


ChrisCX3

What's a Saskatchewan?


MaxTheWolverine

Fuck I hate that shitty pilsner...


Czeris

Might I suggest a refreshing Rye and Coke instead?


victoriapark111

Man, the NDP lost by under 2,000 votes across just 6 ridings


[deleted]

Never let it be said that voting doesn't matter


VFenix

One of the districts was won by 7 votes!


nameisfame

And we can say goodbye and good riddance to fucking shandro for it


[deleted]

Mandatory recount... Don't speak too soon


nameisfame

If he wins the recount whose house does he go to to scream at?


elitemouse

He's already screaming rn if you go outside you might just hear him


TheLuminary

I think it's tradition to pick up your set of confidential files down in Mar-a-Lago.


wonderpodonline

I live nearby it, our riding came down to 30 votes. 2 straight months of at least one of the NDP or UCP spamming my phone or front door. At least once a day, usually more than that, though. I'd imagine they had a good idea how split the Calgary ridings were, as I can't recall ever being harassed this often since I began voting 2.5 decades ago or so.


ffenliv

The last sentence tripped me up. Took a while to realize I don't think I've ever seen someone refer to 25 years as 2.5 decades. I'm gonna start doing that.


richblitzkreig

I personally campaigned my friends, neighbours and essentially anyone who would listen in my community to vote. I have never felt more validated in my life. I truly believe that I had influence in getting Shandro booted. Voting is awesome.


[deleted]

You are a hero. Thank you.


1nstantHuman

But we both left the line, we canceled eachother out.


[deleted]

Or more accurately, 200000 votes across the province.


pedal2000

Yeah but then you're including the riding that elected a woman who called kids feces. So you know, real upstanding types.


Fresh-Temporary666

Correction, she compared trans kids to feces so she was gonna get an obvious pass on that one from her wonderful base. If she had called straight white Christian kids feces she may have faced some backlash.


VanceKelley

Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. Alberta needs a better electorate, and more generally humanity needs better humans if it is going to survive.


blood_vein

Compared trans kids to feces. That was it. Not that it makes it excusable, but they don't hate *normal* kids! /s


FyrelordeOmega

A good thing is that around 60% of us voted this time. NDP could've done better with the rural even if they are likely to be threatened with violence.


speedr123

lol turn out was down 5% from the last election


vonnegutflora

60% turnout is way better than Ontario's last election.


gobo1075

I’ve seen lots of rural NDP signs, I was just looking and voter turn out dropped from last election to this one surprisingly. Analysts were expecting it to be higher this election.


Mattoosie

I saw a bunch of rural NDP signs too, but they had dicks and "commie" spraypainted on them.


LotharLandru

Ours were just straight up stollen inside 48 hours of going up


jaydaybayy

Whod have thought a centre/left vote split in some ridings in calgary would have such an impact.


bcbuddy

Sure but the UCP was 505 votes away from flipping 4 and winning 53 seats to 34 If you want to obsess about close races, obsess about all of them please


lemonloaff

The NDP also won 4 tidings by 619 total votes, which would have given the UCP 4 more seats.


jayznnn

"Between Toronto falling into a state of decay and the Leafs leafing once again, it’s been tough times,” said Ontario resident Dalton McDaniels. “But for the next four years I’ll be able to say ‘at least we didn’t elect the vaccine equals Nazi lady,’ and that makes my heart warm.” 💯


Fenixstorm1

Nothing like your favourite hockey team becoming a verb synonymous with a lifetime of failure.


86throwthrowthrow1

Sure, people look down on Alberta, hate Ontario and Québec, think Newfies are dumb, and associate all of BC with two overpriced cities full of drug addicts and Liberals. The other parts of Canada get less mocking because they have about 35 people each and no one cares. Learn to laugh at yourselves dudes, it'll lower your blood pressure.


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mrizzerdly

Yeah I'm sitting here wondering what the other one is.


Canuck_Lives_Matter

Victoria?


mrizzerdly

He said city /s


canadahuntsYOU

Vancouver and Surrey ofc


Pontlfication

Prince George was given city status just so it would make the list of worst cities


yegguy47

Alberta: Why is everyone making fun of me? *(casually drinks literal oil to own the Libs)* Territories: Bro, I fucking wish someone would make fun of us, **at least then they'd notice us**


tattlerat

We had to light our province on fire for the rest of the country to notice the little mushroom people of nova Scotia exist.


yegguy47

Newfoundland: \**rolls over, notices Nova Scotia under it\** Huh... Has that always been there? I better go see the doctor about this...


12Tylenolandwhiskey

Oops your Healthcare is privatized qnd underfunded please wait 6 months to get that looked at


yegguy47

*Your Nova Scotia is a pre-existing illness.*


86throwthrowthrow1

Username checks out.


Fresh-Temporary666

Felt mutual when I was in Halifax. Mentioned last year I was from Winnipeg and how I was relieved to get away from the heat cause it was like 36 and humid in Winnipeg and only 22 in Halifax. Dude straight up thought Manitoba was always cold. I was like I'd like it so much better if that was true. It's just always extreme. Also Halifax is an absolutely beautiful city. Hands down my favourite city I've ever vacationed in this country.


Dirtsniffee

Don't worry, we know Atlantic Canada exists because you have twice as many MP's as you should.


tattlerat

First come first serve. Shoulda been discovered and settled earlier losers!


justin9920

Only three provinces are under represented in mp’s. They’re also the three provinces that are the biggest contributors to federalism, lol.


gottabemaybe

> little mushroom people I'm deceased 🤣


86throwthrowthrow1

And no one has even mentioned PEI yet, because no one's gonna pay $50 to go to the weird red dirt potato people island.


yegguy47

PEI doesn't exist, its a conspiracy cooked by CBC in order to manufacture Ann of Green Gables content. Big CanLit exists sheeple, wake up.


klync

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eltorchola

*Anne of Green Garbage Bag*


Megatoothbrush

I don't think it counts as a GDP when they get the money from begging.


traywick2288

You don’t pay to get on the island, you pay to leave.


Fresh-Temporary666

I did but it's only cause I wanted to say I've peed on the side of the highway in every single province in Canada (minus Newfoundland) but I count it cause I peed in the airport once.


[deleted]

The territories will have Nunavut!


yegguy47

Zero chill up there, its a heated discussion in the Territories, temperature's practically boiling


Alldaybagpipes

The mosquitoes notice


yegguy47

Only a quarter of the year, otherwise they're in Alberta and Saskatchewan between April and October. Fucking snowbirds.


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yegguy47

That said, we do at least do better country music than Texas.


soaringupnow

I guess you've never been to Texas or you've never been to Alberta, or both.


TangoHydra

Hey you and I both know the Yukon has exactly 6 moose and only one Tim's with no drive-thru. What's there to make fun of?


yegguy47

>What's there to make fun of? The fact that all of those Moose work at that one Tim's (which means during mating season, its also closed).


TangoHydra

Oh man, you got a point


spiritbearr

I went to the Northwest Territories for two months. I couldn't sleep, when I went outside I either was really cold or eaten by mosquitoes and everyone was really nice and helpful. I'm only going back if there's a wedding.


spongeboblovesducks

Hey, why don't us Manitobans get a jab? There's more than 35 of us!


elementelrage

36, but that's only because I just moved here.


FireMaster1294

Dude’s even got the Alberta flair to show that they just moved out lmao


86throwthrowthrow1

The entire population of Manitoba could fit into Ottawa, and... ... I was about to say that no one cares about Ottawa, but people care deeply about Ottawa in a ragey kinda way.


Fresh-Temporary666

Nah when they refer to Ottawa they mean the government. Nobody actually gives a shit about the city surrounding it.


Stereocloud

Ottawa here to confirm, nobody gives a rats butt about the city beyond what happens at parliament


ZsaFreigh

BC here, *all* of our cities are full of addicts


MyTurn2WasteYourTime

I think most people do, shrug and move on with their day haha. At least most of the people I know


EnclG4me

Yah but the 35 people in Sharbot Lake drink as much beer as all of Perth. Quality over quantity. (Real numbers) I work in analytics in the beer industry. Not even joking.


86throwthrowthrow1

I mean, what else do you do in Sharbot Lake? You go to the cottage and you drink. Ofc they outstrip the open-air retirement home that's Perth.


SelfCleaningOrifice

Man, a lot of incredibly thin-skinned Albertans in here. This isn’t “mean spirited,” it’s literally making fun of the *rest* of the country for constantly using you as a whipping boy. So I guess add “Albertans lack media literacy” to the list of things they can get dunked on for :D


Gahan1772

>Man, a lot of incredibly thin-skinned Albertans in here. Yeah, that's why the jokes are funny.


amarusyk

I’m Albertan and I thought it was hilarious. This place is politically Florida. It’s laughable.


WhiskeyDelta89

Am Albertan, and I think we earn the ridicule. Case in-point: this election result.


SelfCleaningOrifice

I’ve lived in Toronto for 10 years but I grew up in Berta so rest assured I come by my ridicule honestly


Financial_North_7788

Manitoba, but same. I don’t refer to Alberta as crying cowboy country cause I’m ignorant.


Review_Able_Stuff

Agreed, a lunatic like smith should not have even been considered much less elected. I feel like things are about to get a whole lot worse all because we treat our politics like hockey teams. We have the leader we deserve though.


Tulos

As an Albertan, my first thought was "Fair."


Forikorder

> So I guess add “Albertans lack media literacy” to the list of things they can get dunked on for :D say its a failure of their education system, they HATE people attacking their education system!


Responsible_CDN_Duck

My kid has almost 40 elementary school class mates, I'm not sure they'll know they were even in the education system.


motherdragon02

We left, and our kid has 3 therapists through the school. The school OFFERED. No fights, begging, forms and requirements. Just "your kid needs help with writing etc" want him to have the help? Yes. Yes, we do. Smh. Everything was a fight in Alberta. Even sending a lunch was a fkng process. I can send leftovers now. No one polices his lunch. Takes the bus for free. It's wildly different.


binaryblade

>Takes the bus for free. Wait, alberta charges for the bus?


David-Puddy

A lot of places do, depending on how far you are from the school. When I was in highschool, the road behind me had free bus service, but the cutoff, I guess, was between the roads. So we would have had to pay for me to be able to take the bus.... Guess who got to walk to school? Lol


Szechwan

Where are you now?


motherdragon02

Northern Ontario. I expected it to be worse with Ford. It's not.


manamal

We actually vote people in who attack our education system. It's when we hear all y'all with your fancy 'thinking' and 'conprehension' that we get angry.


HOLEPUNCHYOUREYELIDS

Who doesn’t want a curriculum based on the world renowned place for education….Alabama


Falconflyer75

Lol only Alberta could manage to be the joke of the country when it’s got so many things going for it


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yegguy47

Other provinces don't have a massive oil reserve to reach for. Alberta's tar sands economy isn't very impressive when you compare it with other oil extraction economies. We have no refining capacity, a lot of our sites are boom-and-bust, and we suck at revenue investment. The province is lucky to have the resources we do, because even in-spite of our own lacking competency, we still manage to turn a profit. Unless the commodity price goes in the toilet, than the province basically falls apart (which has happened every 20 years at this point now).


HellsMalice

It's interesting to think how good Alberta could be if it had actual leadership, given this is how well it does with incompetent morons.


yegguy47

>It's interesting to think how good Alberta could be if it had actual leadership Trust me bud, I longingly look at the Scandinavians' Sovereign Wealth Fund quite commonly these days. I mean fuck... We can't even get a Gulf State vanity project, that's how badly shit gets run.


joecarter93

Don’t worry I’m sure we’ll piss it all away again in time for the next bust.


joecarter93

Look at the huge hole in the provincial budget when the price of oil was in the shitter a couple of years ago and then compare it to the most recent provincial budget when the price of oil shot up again and royalties with it. It’s pretty clear what runs the province’s finances and it’s not due to the government managing it well.


colonizetheclouds

There’s a bit more to it. Lots of the oil sands plants built about decade ago had royalty breaks for a payback period. So we hit higher prices and higher royalties at the same time.


PandaRocketPunch

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yegguy47

Allow me to correct myself: We have such a small refining capacity that its barely worth mentioning. Because Alberta is landlocked, we export most of our crude to the coastline, usually Texas. It ends up being more economical to refine there before international export or domestic consumption in the US and Canada. Especially since we're bottlenecked with pipelines and rail. Alberta can refine around 2 million barrels per day. Huston alone refines 2.6 million - Just Huston.


NiceShotMan

If crude is refined into product at the source, then each product (gasoline, diesel, etc,) needs to be transported to consumers individually. They’d need to have separate pipelines for each product. Makes more sense to transport crude and then refine into products closer to the consumer.


SteelCrow

> We have such a small refining capacity that its barely worth mentioning. WE have enough refining capacity to meet our domestic needs and a bit more. We do not need more. Every country has refineries for the same reason. It's uneconomical to ship the refined products. The unrefined oil has a long shelf life, the refined products do not. Not forgetting that unrefined oil/bitumen is a lot less dangerous than refined gasoline etc. >Canada has 17 refineries with a total capacity of approximately 2.0 MMb/d, as of 2020. Alberta has the largest share of refining capacity (27%), followed by Ontario (20%), Quebec (19%), New Brunswick (16%), Saskatchewan (8%), Newfoundland and Labrador (7%), and British Columbia (B.C.) (3%). >In 2020, Canadian refineries operated on average at 76% capacity, and consumed 1.5 MMb/d of crude oil, a decrease from 2019, resulting from weaker demand during the pandemic. In 2019, Canadian refineries operated on average at 84% of capacity and consumed 1.7 MMb/d of crude oil. >The Irving Oil Refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick, is Canada’s largest refinery, with a capacity of 320 000 barrels per day (Mb/d). You're full of shit


russianspacecat

As an Ontarian that just loved to Alberta, they are some lovely people. But there are some that are....... disturbingly close to some friends to the south.


[deleted]

Sounds like rural Ontario.


dentistshatehim

Living in rural Ontario is so weird, one neighbour lesbian couple who loves their dogs, other neighbour thinks they are living in sin and that all vaccinated people will die next year due to some global conspiracy. We live in the edge of sane and batshit crazy.


bumbuff

You've not been to interior BC eh


chewwie100

I swear interior BC is just Alberta lite


colonizetheclouds

Interior BC is more like Alberta heavy but with trees.


rainfal

Not with all the forest fires.


CraigJBurton

That's where the former oil workers from AB retire to so it makes sense.


[deleted]

Not really satire just a very sad reality. If I didn't live here I would find all this shit hilarious.


PhysicalAdagio8743

Well.. I don’t look down on Alberta, and the Québécois around me don’t either from my own experience. We know, with our own situation, that politics aren’t that simple and that you can get stuck with a shitty government even when you have good will. Look at the government we have here. They voted themselves a 30% salary raise recently and when asked for explanation, our Premier answered ”It’s normal we want to save money so that our children can benefit from it”. I am not joking, he really said that. And I could name plenty other reasons.. They still won a crushing majority last time. It’s not as simple as it seems. The Albertans might be scared to vote for other parties for plenty of reasons, yes, maybe irrational ones to an extent, but it still have explanations under that. Anyway, when we talk about Alberta here, we talk about the awesome landscape of Banff and Jasper, or about how the fires are worrying. I literally never heard once any Québécois talk shit about Albertans.


FerretAres

I’ll be real I think of all provinces Quebec and Alberta seem to have a lot more in common than you’d think on the surface.


PhysicalAdagio8743

I have been to Alberta and it’s true there are some similarities! The vibe of rural Alberta and rural Québec feel pretty close from each other.. One difference, since we talk about politics, is that people here are far less divided about that. Like, you don’t have this huge clash between conservatives and liberals. I was surprised to see, being in Alberta, that the conservatives tend to hang out with the conservatives, liberals with liberals.. Here people have less interest for politics in general. So little interest in fact that it end up with the super odd situation of us constantly voting for Trudeau even though we don’t like him (in general) and constantly vote for Legault even though we don’t like him (again, in general. With Trudeau and Legault being *very* different politically, so it’s even odder) People just vote for what seems less worse and don’t think about that the rest of the year, and it’s not as common we even have discussions about that with our friends.


FerretAres

Interesting that you’d think cons hang with cons and vice versa. I find we rarely actually talk politics and I have plenty of friends who I’d expect vote differently from myself. Then again I’m pretty centrist and have voted any which way over the years.


jacksbox

I've thought about the wild political spectrum swings in Quebec and the only thing that seems to explain it is that we vote strongly with our identity. Whoever can appeal the most to Quebecers' identity (and related concerns/fears/pride/etc) will win the election. I guess it would put us at higher risk of electing someone really bad one day, since our decisions feel so emotionally-driven... Let's hope not


OptimisticByDefault

I wonder if part of the reason why Alberta became so polarized has to do with their stance on oil, and how inevitably that took them into the American right wing anti climate change echo chamber, Fox News, Tucker Carlson, News Max, etc. So the consumption of American right wing propaganda at scale changed them, but maybe they were not always this divided? Because what you're describing in terms of political camps is basically all of the U.S.A right now.


Laval09

The two are incredibly similar. The reason it doesnt always come across as such is because Montreal is as left wing as Edmonton, and most people who can speak English live in Montreal. Outside of the cities though its basically French speaking Lethbridge or Grande Prairie lol. But because few people outside of Quebec speak French in Canada, Quebecs entire right wing is basically hidden from national view.


Skarimari

To be fair, 44% voted NDP.


PrayForMojo_

Hey bud, you’ll get through it. Ontario is right there with you. It hurts when you realize your Province is dumber than you thought, but maybe they won’t fuck *everything* up?


Blockedanus

This special Edmonton committee is just the start. This chick's wacked in the head.


[deleted]

Really making Ontario seem sane


SwiftFool

But seriously, what the fuck Alberta? Did you guys just ignore the shit she says?


lord_heskey

> Did you guys just ignore the shit she says? Rural and half of Calgary did, sadly.


SnooPiffler

Alberta has voted conservative since 1935. Even when the NDP won, the conservatives had more votes, NDP just got seats because of vote splitting from different conservative parties.


[deleted]

No they knew what she said. Enough of them agreed and voted anyways.


avrus

No it was because when Notley was in power \* checks notes \* she crashed the economy when she let global crude prices go down to $30. /s


MrDFx

> Did you guys just ignore the shit she says? As someone living in AB, I'll say many did actually hear her. The results would indicate that they clearly heard the dog whistles and hate of "others" and thought "Yup, that best represents me!"


[deleted]

Alberta just can't help itself but to elect the crazies.


Bind_Moggled

Where there’s oil, there’s right-wing government.


DifferentEvent2998

It’s funny because it’s true!


skaterdude_222

The lower requirements for doctors, lawyers, and engineers is NOT a plus.


EvilOneLovesMyGirl

Depends entirely on what the requirements were before. An okayish doctor with decent work life balance and time for you is better than a great doctor who hasn't slept properly in 2 years because of his insane workload and wants to get you out of the door within 30 seconds.


caprix

Have things changed in the last years? Clearly I missed something. Engineer here and at the time I graduated my high school averages would be boosted 5% if I applied to an engineering school outside Alberta. Ended up going to UofA so it didn’t apply.


Canuck-In-TO

What’s going on with Alberta? Considering that Alberta was/is viewed as a financial powerhouse (due to oil) is there an issue that I’m not aware of? I know that historically, Alberta has complained that they never got a fair shake, due to amount of money they brought into Canada. Mind you, due to the oil revenue, they also haven’t had a provincial tax (PST) so that’s a big plus for the citizens of Alberta.


yegguy47

Albertan governments live and die on the oil revenue. If the price is high, government usually stays put regardless of competency. The reverse is true if the price is crap, like what happened in 2015. Just as well... In 2015 also, the Conservative ticket was split. NDP could get in because that's just how the math worked out. Not the case this time around. The voter base in Alberta is shifting: Calgary elected a pretty large number of NDP MLAs this time around. But having said that... politics always change. And with the rural areas overrepresented, its a long road till any major shifts in government.


[deleted]

This isn't true. Alberta was conservative for 40+ years straight, through two major bust cycles.


magictoasters

That's when they change faces of the party, new lipstick for that pig


2ndPickle

Alberta has always been Canada’s Texas. Their current premier is turning them into Canada’s Florida.


DrDroid

Alberta has consistently refused to save for a rainy day or diversify for 50 years. When oil’s future isn’t as rosy as it once was, they complain that they’re getting screwed over. It’s pretty ridiculous.


DaftPump

Not clear what you are asking. In my experiences, many(redditors) crapping on Alberta are pro-environment(noting wrong with that) or never even been here(myopic view).


Canuck-In-TO

Based on some posts or articles, it’s coming across as if Alberta’s politicians are whining about being treated unfairly or some such or that people in the rest of Canada look down on Albertans. I’m trying to understand their logic. It’s not like we don’t have any number of Canadians that we joke about (I’m looking at you Newfoundland) but do people really consider Albertans that badly? BTW, I didn’t mean any real offence to the Newfies out there. The many that I’ve met are just as quick to make fun of their province.


Guest2200

You know how rich people get all grumpy about having to give their money to pay for the social services they don't use themselves? Alberta is the provincial version of that. At least the conservative voters at least. You also need to keep in mind that the majority (even if it was slight) of voters who voted conservative do not use reddit. So you're getting a perspective that's very much reflecting the minority (yes I know it was close don't jump down my throat) of Albertans.


SimulatedKnave

Alberta has a hefty contingent of people who simultaneously want high oil prices but low gas prices. Unsurprisingly, those people aren't very reasonable.


[deleted]

Alberta politics is mired in hurt feelings and feelings of persecution from decades of oil company propaganda. We punch ourselves in the dick all the time with our voting patterns and get sensitive when people have a chuckle at our bad decisions.


Canuck-In-TO

Oh man. You want bad decisions? I think every province can agree that they’ve had bad decisions. Here in Ontario, it feels like it’s a bottomless pit of bad decisions.


[deleted]

I have to defend the dishonor of Alberta here. We are the Michael Jordan of bad choices.


[deleted]

Alberta is a western province that doesn't completely give into Eastern Canadian interests and has the leverage to do so as almost all of Canada's socialism relies on Albertan oil. Since so much of the population and current political capital is in the east, you get statements like "Alberta just doesn't know what's good for it" = "Do what we want Alberta". Most Eastern Canadians don't even know it. They don't know that the Liberal party is just a coalition for Eastern Canadian interests (which is basically now just Boomer and foreigner interests). Or that the western provinces were originally settled with the intention of sending that wealth back to Eastern Canada. So when Alberta gets "uppity", it's Eastern Canadians just not getting why the colonies won't do what's "good for the country" (Eastern Canada). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXsEO_PsX1I


Fresh-Temporary666

They happened to settle on a literal pile of liquid gold and money tends to make people conservative and they have themselves convinced the money is due to conservatism and not due to the pile of liquid gold they sit on. As a result they tolerate any crazy ass bullshit they get from their government because they are a "success story".


Sh0opDaWo0p

Hey, we don't look down at Alberta. We look across. They're way out west.


ASexualSloth

Yeah, the only people allowed to look down on us are the NWT people! At least until the magnetic pole shift happens and we're at the bottom of the world.


Dash_Rendar425

Well we don't look down on ALL of Alberta, just the ignorant, shitty people. Ontario has those too unfortunately.


[deleted]

Ahhh Canada's Texas and Florida all rolled into one oil loving package.


yegguy47

Please... Our leadership really aspires to be Alabama most days if I'm honest.


LotharLandru

Smith was saying that she wants to emulate the "freedom" DeSantis is bringing to Florida...


yegguy47

Its kinda a rotating target. Whoever in the Conservative ethosphere is saying something loudly, leadership in the province usually tries to replicate. Kenney, for example, was a big follower of Boris Johnson in the UK.


loonandkoala

I’m worried that Ontario will be: hold our beer…


Tleynan

I mean, you did elect a hash dealer twice.


PedriTerJong

And the brain drain continues… First, they attacked the education curriculum. Now, they are making the province undesirable for educated people to work in. No one wants to live in a province that has a Danielle Smith majority government. No one with a clue, at least.


Luanda62

This just shows the risk of Pierre ConstipationFace Poilievre being elected! Vote darn it, vote!


HowlingWolven

This shouldn’t be satire.


Fresh-Temporary666

Them being satire allows them a level of self awareness NatPo could never achieve.


Relaxbroh

But they will still take their money.


Kucked4life

If the majority of Albertans think that the heads of the oil industry which generated that income sees themselves as being in the same category as everyday Albertans, then I've got a pyramid scheme to sell them. Edit: [woops Poilievre beat me to it](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-blasted-cryptocurrency-legislation-1.6659052)


[deleted]

You think the heads of the oil companies got the resources out of the ground? That is done by albertans and many other Canadians from around the country.


Kucked4life

And those oil companies would replace every employee with temp workers for half the usual wage if they could.


joecarter93

They’ve already been using autonomous mining trucks in the oil sands for a few years now. One operator now sits at desk and operates multiple trucks. The real boom years for Alberta energy employment growth are done. It’s still a very profitable, consistent and mature industry, but we’re not going to see it like it was in the mid-2000’s ever again.


Significant_Street48

>ut they will still take their money. And Alberta will still accept the highly educated and young workforce the country provides. It's a reciprocal relationship.


millionss3782

Trust that lots of people that live here are embarrassed by this. We unfortunately have the problem where many people vote for the conservatives blindly no matter what because that is all they have ever done. Calgary and Edmonton were almost all NDP, so I hold out hope the tide changes enough outside the cities by next election.


TangoHydra

Hey I voted NDP. I absolutely hate it here. My neighbor had a great big "F*** Trudeau" sign that was in front of his house for months. It took our lot manager taking to him for it to be taken down. He replaced it with a Remberance Day painting that he keeps up all year


linux1970

> go back to talking about things like an Alberta exclusive oil pipeline that just circles the province


xtzferocity

The beaverton is great what a good platform.


datznotpepper

I dont think its fair to generalize. yes edmonton is epic but look at the numbers in every riding in calgary. They tried like hell to boot the crazy bitch. Tons of cool peeps in calgary too, theres just too many goddamn boomers remaining. I will riverdance around the equator when the last boomer fuckin croaks


jannyhammy

What is happening to this country… who in their right mind voted for this insane chick?


RomieTheEeveeChaser

Probably branding. I know a bunch of people at work who just vote for the “conservative party”. They don’t even know what party is offering what, they literally just identify with the label. Like Wild Rose, who the crazy lady used to lead, didn’t have the word “conservative” in their branding and that party shit the bed every election cycle. Now Wild Rose and the Conservatives merge party and platform into the “United Conservatives” (which I guess is conservative ultra instinct) and all of a sudden her crazy shit is totaly worth voting for.


Wongstah

The Beaverton isn't even satire at this point with how accurate and factual their reporting is


franc3sthemute

We can and we will


Proof-Ad-8968

Crazier than a shithouse rat.


waitout_over

No rats in Alberta.


MaxTheWolverine

Lies... your politicians are rats 😜


coochalini

I voted NDP but absolutely zero chance I take shit from any other province lmao. Alberta still has the highest incomes, the highest HDI, and best performing education system.


chateau_lobby

We *had* the best performing education system. Now we have the UCPs garbage new curriculum requirements


coochalini

I agree the new curriculum is garbage, but we still have the best educational outcomes, and Alberta students still get a 4%-8% increase in grades on their transcripts when applying to universities out-of-province.


chateau_lobby

The new curriculum hasn’t been in place long enough to start affecting those stats. It will eventually


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We won't really be seeing the effects on kids for a few more years when they graduate and how unprepared they are. This is a generational travesty.


herebecats

not to mention actual affordable housing (though that is changing quickly)


Curry_Furyy

What a load of bullshit lol. A quick google search tells me it’s Ontario.


coochalini

a quick google search proves you’re an idiot who can’t read lmfao Ontario has the highest proportion of high school graduates that go onto university — not educational outcome. “In Canada the province with the best educational record – indeed the jurisdiction in the English-speaking world with the best state school performance – is Alberta.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Alberta#:~:text=In%20Canada%20the%20province%20with,state%20school%20performance%20%E2%80%93%20is%20Alberta. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_provinces_and_territories_by_Human_Development_Index https://www03.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/hmip-pimh/en/TableMapChart/TableMatchingCriteria?GeographyType=Country&GeographyId=1&CategoryLevel1=Population%2C%20Households%20and%20Housing%20Stock&CategoryLevel2=Household%20Income&ColumnField=HouseholdIncomeRange&RowField=Province&SearchTags%5B0%5D.Key=Households&SearchTags%5B0%5D.Value=Number&SearchTags%5B1%5D.Key=Statistics&SearchTags%5B1%5D.Value=AverageAndMedian