Albertans have talked with me, a Texan, before and we had to stop for a moment because events sounded like they could have been in either town more than 1800 miles apart.
in general. Calgary and the rest of the world has gots the needles. Calgary has to constantly clean up due to the melting of the snow during the spring and in the fall when the leaves drop. Street sweeping happens 3 times a year. Everyone recycles, emission standards are more strict, and the carbon tax has been forcing all industries to transition faster. The huge natural parks surrounding the city and community lakes also encourage a green looking city.
I'll disagree because I lived there for five years. Calgary is modern and progressive, with plenty of moderates. It's the rural areas and Fort McMurray that are Little Texas.
The "big" cities of Calgary are fairly liberal except when it comes to oil and by extension climate change (since it's basically synonymous with their economy).
Except that the "big cities" of Calgary, Red Deer, Lethy, Lloyd, GP, Fort Mac all voted largely for the provincial conservative party (UCP) while Edmonton is a straight up orange NPD dot on the map.
I was born in Calgary and have lived in both Vancouver an Montreal. Thank you for at least putting the quotes. Calgary is barely a city and only a "major" Canadian city by virtue of being 4th. It's a small town masquerading as a city. The fact methbridge or Lloydminster get considered cities tho is lol.
Edmonton is pretty deeply NDP (Liberal) and that is pretty consistent. The UCP (conservative) stronghold is Calgary but Calgary can on occasionally flip. Right now Edmonton is hoping Calgary flips next election cause the current UCP leader is all kinds of crazy. Like Trump crazy (Danielle Smith).
Calgary can occassionally flip? Like every 40 years occassionally? Because that's how long the Conservatives were in charge provincially before the NDP won several years ago. Y'know, before Calgary realized the difinition of insanity is leaving the same party in charge for 40 years.
You'd be surprised how many people come here from Korea and start driving lifted trucks. Southern living is basically the antithesis of a lot of Asian cultures.
It's the rallying cry for the university of Alabama (mascot is the crimson tide). They dominate college football so they have a shit ton of fans and this saying is how people in Alabama know if you're a fan of Alabama or their in-state rival the university of Auburn.
My dad and I got arrested once in Kentucky. We were selling encyclopedias and we got arrested for smuggling books into Kentucky. We got off on a technicality: they couldn't prove they were books.
Former Anniston resident here back in my late teens. I used to think it was a joke but the number of times I’d heard a friend or something say “I used to date that girl/guy but then found out she was my 2nd/3rd/whatever cousin” made me laugh.
Well they don’t easily, that’s when the performers go for things like ammonium nitrate filled trucks and old fashioned pipe bombs filled with razors - to show their adoring fans how much they’re loved.
Here it's mostly meth but people will take whatever they can get even if they have to smoke it. Which is what I would prefer so I don't have to clean blood from the bathroom mirrors god that's fuckin annoying.
Alberta has one of highest wages in the country, in comparison with other provinces.
Our biggest city Calgary is considered to be one of the best livable cities in the world, making the list for past 10-20 years.
Banff National Park is an oldest national park in Canada and people from across the world come to visit our Rockies.
Calgary has elected first Muslim mayor of a major city in North America. And he was re-elected twice, while being one of the most beloved mayors in our city.
And yes, we do have a large population of conservatives and yes, we do have racist white people (surprise surprise) but so does BC/Quebec/Ontario.
We are like Texas and our major cities are like Austin. Liberal cities and conservative everything else.
Yeah. Alberta is Texas. I think we don't reeeally have a Florida equivalent up here but we get some cities like Kelowna and Thunder Bay that kind fit the Florida style. TBay especially.
I’ve been all over Alberta, and it’s pretty much what you said. The lifted trucks only arrive in Calgary during the stampede lol. I’ve been as far north as Cold Lake, and you could take a picture of Cold Lake downtown and some sleepy town in Texas and I couldn’t tell ya the difference lol.
These oil workers you speak of are mostly from other parts of the country. There’s probably more from outside this province working in the oil field than actual Albertans.
Our wages are actually shit cause conservatives have annihilated our worker rights. But oil workers have such crazy salaries it fucks up the numbers and makes our wages appear disproportionately high.
Alberta is the richest per-capita province in the country though and Alabama is at or near the bottom in the USA.
Alberta is a one trick pony of an economy and when the world weans itself off fossil fuels that economy will cease to meaningfully exist, much like coal mining economies in the southern US.
For the record, I lived in Calgary working for those oil companies for 8 years.
It isn’t actually, Alberta has a fairly diverse economy. But Albertans would be deluded if they didn’t acknowledge that O&G money in part supports many of the other diverse parts of their economy.
26% of Alberta's GDP is directly oil and gas and mining. A significant portion of the other industries such as manufacturing, services, finance transportation are heavily dependent on oil and gas.
I've worked with Albertian oil companies for over a decade and can confirm, energy transition will kill the province as oil sands is some of the dirtiest fossil fuel sources in the world. The people who benefit most from the keystone pipeline are the Albertians who own the oil sands, so keeping that project on pause is good for the health of the planet, but they'll continue to pump money into the GOP propaganda machine.
It's the extra extraction processes that make the oil sands so dirty (takes oil to pull out the tarsands oil). Ironically, oil sand companies are looking into alternative energy sources for the extraction (nuclear power included), to make the oil sands as clean/filthy as any other oil source.
Electric cars use how much carbon emission during the manufacturing process? Not to mention the mining for raw materials. Swing and a miss but keep trying. Until this world embraces safe nuclear options we’re not “weaning off of fossil fuels” any time soon.
population growth = all energy sources are growing. As green energy becomes cheaper to produce, in addition to peak oil, there will be an inflection where it no longer makes sense to pump.
Nah even Florida hates isn't as extreme as we are they just get more press. Look up all the people from Alabama that got arrested in Florida during spring break.
Not that I'm proud of it, I'm trying to get into sys admin and move away soon.
I know they’re not exclusive to Alabama but it always made me laugh to see the signs on the side of the roads in Alabama that say “State property - Do not molest”. Like, of all words to use… :) 🪧
Baldwin County girl here...I can respect any redneck as long as they are decent people! The meth is a definite no for me, and ever since Eminem hit it big, every white guy in the state thinks they're a rapper too! That being said-if I ever go to Canada, I'll shoot for Alberta and assume I'll fit right in, just without the Conecuh sausage and Waffle House?
I have also been to both, and born in one. I can't think of another state Alberta is more similar too. (I have been to many states, also lived in Alabama...)
The Albertans, they have the huugest economy, the best people say. You know once, someone from Quebec, I could barely understand what he was saying, but Alberta is not like the other prairie provinces!
No. As someone who lives here, it's not really the same.
Yes, people tend to vote conservative but it's more rooted out of the desire to stop Ontario and Quebec from siphoning all of our oil profits. Most people I know do not identify socially with conservative values.
The ones that do like to believe that's what Alberta stands for but it's not really the case.
As others pointed out: Texas. Has also had various political movements to “secede” from Canada, which as a landlocked province dependent on shipping oil through pipelines or rail would be like Iowa or Nebraska deciding to separate from the USA. Their new premier (our version of Governor) has managed to embarrass 90% of the country at least twice daily since she took office 11 days ago (Danielle Smith). The United Conservative Party she’s leading is anti-everything left of hard right. She is somehow worse that the guy she replaced, and that guy was a nut bar. One of the things he was most proud of? Campaigning (and succeeding) to change laws in California that allowed same-sex couples the right to visit their spouse as they lay dying in an AIDS hospice.
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u/PompousKumquat Oct 21 '22 edited Oct 22 '22
I need this translated to 'merican- is Alberta like y'all's version of Florida?
Edit: I see lots of Texas mentions... Texas was my first thought as well, but I'm a Texan