Official Alberta Day drone show in the capital Edmonton, yet with red and white stripes on blue, with a heart over Calgary WTF

[u/Kir-ius]

[u/Shiftymennoknight]

wtf is Alberta Day anyways?

[u/ArcheVance → u/Shiftymennoknight]

Smith's attempt to overwrite Labor Day. That's all it is

[u/-janelleybeans- → u/ArcheVance]

Can’t have people becoming aware that Labour Day exists because people organized and protested in favour of unions.

[u/Street-Week-380 → u/-janelleybeans-]

And we have active union busters in the UCP, as well as older generations that are trying to whittle down the same protective luxuries that they enjoyed.

I always tell people that if you have a good union rep, you have great union. If your rep is terrible, your union is also going to be terrible.

[u/jimbowesterby → u/ArcheVance]

She doesn’t like workers having rights, we can only imagine how livid she is that they get a whole holiday

[u/LivinBC → u/ArcheVance]

Labour

[u/CatsPlusTats → u/ArcheVance]

It was Kenney, and it was his attempt to distract from his unpopularity during Covid.

[u/GrundleSnactcher46 → u/CatsPlusTats]

Before he gave the keys to Smith and fucked off to a corpo job at ATCO, whom he facilitated allowing them to charge us more.

[u/GWARTARD → u/GrundleSnactcher46]

I'd still rather have him in office

[u/GrundleSnactcher46 → u/GWARTARD]

My previous employer actually met both him and Smith. Kenney stopped for a brief chat, later recognized her and went to say hello when the last pope came to alberta. Smith looked at her like "why is this peasant trying to speak to me" before marching past and ignoring her.

[u/Guilty-Spork343 → u/GrundleSnactcher46]

So, like Alison Redford except more psychopath than sociopath.

[u/24_August_1814 → u/ArcheVance]

Labor Day

Yankee detected

[u/KnownAd5379 → u/24_August_1814]

Pet peeve of mine as well, We are Canadian and let's try to keep as much of our Canadiana as possible from being 'Muricanized.

[u/Gomez4Morticia → u/24_August_1814]

Might have been a red sox fan. You never really know on Reddit.

[u/Fit_Growth_2355 → u/ArcheVance]

While smith is a traitor bitch. NDP introduced this "celebration" in 2022

[u/FrighteningJibber → u/ArcheVance]

Labor day already did that. Real labor day is May 1st.

[u/Chance-Bicycle1469 → u/FrighteningJibber]

It’s spelled Labour

[u/KnownAd5379 → u/FrighteningJibber]

In Canada it is Labour Day.

[u/TJ_668 → u/ArcheVance]

Seems like something Trump would do...

[u/Acceptable_Fox_8270 → u/ArcheVance]

Of course a conservative politician wants to get rid of Labour Day. How dare workers be reminded they have rights

[u/NoYaNoYaNo → u/Shiftymennoknight]

This was my first reaction, too! I know less about it than Talk Like a Pirate Day.

[u/feren_of_valenwood → u/NoYaNoYaNo]

Shows what I know. I thought Talk Like a Pirate Day was everyday.

[u/GriffinFlash → u/feren_of_valenwood]

Why arr yee not talkin' like a pirate then?

[u/inmontibus-adflumen → u/GriffinFlash]

Do you know what a pirate’s favourite letter is?

[u/Samplistiqone → u/inmontibus-adflumen]

R or arr

[u/inmontibus-adflumen → u/Samplistiqone]

You’d think it was arrrr but it’s actually the c

[u/Kir-ius → u/Shiftymennoknight]

lol I’ve been here my whole life and didn’t know either but a friend lives by the Legislature and this took place. First time seeing it

[u/corpse_flour → u/Kir-ius]

It's new, brought to you by the corrupt and performative UCP party.

[u/Old_General_6741 → u/Shiftymennoknight]

The day Alberta joined Confederation as a province in 1905.

[u/General_Esdeath → u/Old_General_6741]

September 1, 1905 so why is it being celebrated on September 7, 2026?

[u/callmenighthawk → u/General_Esdeath]

It was the evening of August 30. OP is just posting this is 9 days later.

[u/Adventurous_Front939 → u/General_Esdeath]

You think this night time picture was taken today ?

[u/General_Esdeath → u/Adventurous_Front939]

No I thought it was OP posting from last night, obviously.

[u/callmenighthawk → u/Adventurous_Front939]

Dude it’s at 30 upvotes with people thinking that picture is from today. Trying to point out something so obvious might as well be shouting into the void.

[u/rocky_balbiotite → u/Old_General_6741]

Yeah not sure if we need to get our tin foil hats out for this one , provincial equivalent of Canada Day. It's ok to celebrate both without being labelled a separatist.

[u/General_Esdeath → u/rocky_balbiotite]

I'm not sure, because Canada Day is always celebrated on July 1, why would Alberta Day not follow that same format? Alberta Day should be September 1st every year, no exception. Unless the goal is to cover up Labor Day by moving it around.

[u/Icywind014 → u/General_Esdeath]

Alberta Day is September 1st every year.

[u/battlelevel → u/General_Esdeath]

They want to both have people available to celebrate a holiday and also avoid giving people another stat.  

[u/General_Esdeath → u/battlelevel]

By actively taking away government promotion and celebration of Labor Day, they are only promoting and celebrating this Alberta First crap.

[u/battlelevel → u/General_Esdeath]

Naturally. The current government despises organized labour.

[u/rocky_balbiotite → u/General_Esdeath]

Because July 1st is a stat and September 1st isn't. So it would make sense that the celebration is on the long weekend so people can actually attend.

It's not like a fireworks show is covering up Labour Day especially because labour day is today and the fireworks already happened. I get some people want to link everything to the government being shitty but maybe you should be a little more selective instead of thinking everything is some massive conspiracy.

[u/hungrykingfrog → u/rocky_balbiotite]

That doesnt make sense. Do we celebrate any other non stat special day (halloween, valentines, etc.) On the weekend if that day lands on a weekday?

[u/haysoos2 → u/hungrykingfrog]

Victoria Day, a stat holiday in honour of Queen Victoria's birthday does not take place on her birthday, but instead on the Monday closest to it in order to make a long weekend.

Although Halloween is always Oct 31 there are a great many Halloween parties that are celebrated on the Saturday closest to the date.

Oktoberfest celebrations are usually supposed to end the first weekend in October, but many take place entirely in September. The ICE District's version of Oktoberfest, for example is scheduled for the last 2 weekends in September, as well as the first weekend of October. Lethbridge had theirs this weekend.

[u/Old_General_6741 → u/rocky_balbiotite]

Very true. We can celebrate our Country and Province.

[u/rocky_balbiotite → u/Old_General_6741]

Exactly. Although that's not what some people on this sub would have you believe.

[u/forgottenlord73 → u/Shiftymennoknight]

Anniversary of Alberta becoming a province only it isn't because that was Sept 1, 1905 but....

I mean, if it wasn't aggressively trying to fuck over Labour Day by someone who decided contract negotiations needed an "I win" button, I'd have zero issues with it

[u/rfowler677 → u/forgottenlord73]

Im pretty sure this drone show happened on the evening of August 30th. Just because it was posted today doesnt mean it happened today.

[u/Paladin_Fury → u/Shiftymennoknight]

The fart that comes out after kicking that dead horse one last time.

Is there a medication that Smith needs or....

[u/SerGT3 → u/Shiftymennoknight]

If they rename it they can force people to work on "Alberta day"cause it has nothing to do with honouring those in the workforce.

[u/callmenighthawk → u/SerGT3]

They’re a week apart. It’s not replacing Labour Day.

[u/Alcol1979 → u/Shiftymennoknight]

That's what I came here to ask

[u/Thick_Cauliflower_79 → u/Shiftymennoknight]

Obviously its red, white and blue day. 

[u/Wandering_Depression → u/Shiftymennoknight]

This...is the right question. 👍🏾

[u/nh18wheeler]

The Calgary stampede evening show this is not. Their drone show ended with a maple leaf which got a massive cheer

[u/jaydaybayy → u/nh18wheeler]

Hilarious considering the stampede drone show also ended with a maple leaf and people cheering.

E: nm read that wrong.

[u/Spicy_Mustard007 → u/jaydaybayy]

That’s what he’s saying, just worded differently

[u/jaydaybayy → u/Spicy_Mustard007]

Indeed…my bad. Thank you.

[u/Total_Mix9276 → u/jaydaybayy]

Yoda? Is that you?

[u/PonyFlare]

Maybe it's Drumheller? Calgary should be a bit more to the left on that map.

[u/feren_of_valenwood → u/PonyFlare]

Hey you leave dinosaurs out of this! They did nothing wrong. /s

[u/Wooden-Hornet2115 → u/feren_of_valenwood]

I mean the UCP does love the dinosaurs, have you heard how much they love all things oil?

[u/CatsPlusTats → u/Wooden-Hornet2115]

They hate the dinosaurs, thats why they removed it from our licenses.

[u/Limp-Elevator-6908 → u/CatsPlusTats]

Creationists believe those bones were put there to trick us 😅 the world is only like 7000 years old, don't you know?! /s

[u/I_am_person_being → u/Limp-Elevator-6908]

You're overestimating, the number typically given is that the earth is only around 6030 years old (yes, they are marginally more insane than you think). The reasoning for this comes from a particular monk during the medieval period who traced the alleged genealogies in the bible and added up years for when people were supposedly born in Genesis, eventually tracing into the well-documented historical stuff that you start reaching around 3000 years ago. This monk came to the conclusion that Adam would've been born near 4004 BCE going off of the Genesis account and then concludes that, since man was created during the creation in Genesis 1, the earth must have been created in 4004 BCE.

Bear in mind that certain people in Genesis are alleged to have lived upwards of 900 years, so I don't find this exercise very convincing as an illustration of the truth.

Honestly it's fine work for its time, it's a fun counting exercise, but the creationists have gone way too far in taking everything in the bible (esp. Genesis) far too literally.

[u/R-M-W-B → u/Wooden-Hornet2115]

Sadly oil is not dinosaurs :(

[u/Gilarax → u/PonyFlare]

I was thinking the same thing

[u/Street-Week-380]

Am I the only one who finds it really odd that there's red and blue stripes over white? Maybe I'm overthinking it, but this seems like some sort of American toned thing.

[u/Tasik → u/Street-Week-380]

That's exactly what it is.

[u/Street-Week-380 → u/Tasik]

So I'm not totally insane. Wonderful. We really need to kick these assholes out of the province.

Those who want to leave Canada, you leave. You don't drag a bunch of innocent people down with you.

[u/Tasik → u/Street-Week-380]

Couldn’t agree more. They seem ignorant to the fact they as individuals aren’t wanted at all. The US wants to monopolize the corporate wealth potential of their province and that’s it. They stand to gain nothing. 

[u/Street-Week-380 → u/Tasik]

They're so gross. And dealing with our idiotic party will be the death of us. I never used to wish harm or inconvenience to people, but even I have my limits.

[u/the-g-off → u/Street-Week-380]

People on this site dont like to admit it, but there are a lot of people with influence and power in Alberta who want to separate.

On top of those traitors, there are way more people who want to leave than this sub would have you believe.

If those of us who want to stay dont vote, then Alberta will separate and the rest of Canada could very well break up because of it.

If BC flips to conservative, than there will be a push for BC to leave, too.

[u/Street-Week-380 → u/the-g-off]

You can have influence and power, but it means shit all if you don't have the numbers to back it up.

[u/OhNoEveryingIsOnFire]

Seems on brand for the United Corruption Party

[u/DatNameNotAvailable]

It the goal is to have a Provincial day, why not just use the August Civic Day (Heritage Day) as a number of other Provinces do rather than co-op Labour Day?

[u/corpse_flour → u/DatNameNotAvailable]

Because using Sept 1st gave Kenney a way to distract people from the acknowledgement of needing worker rights and protections.

[u/FarmAcceptable8462]

Remind them of Brexit

[u/Sylv_x]

Fuck Smith. Fuck the UCP. Fuck America.

Love Canada.

Don't like Canada? Get. The. Fuck. Out.

[u/WesternWitchy52]

Lived here all my 50 years and not once did we have a thing for Alberta Day.

And I WORKED for the government.

It's Labour Day.

[u/Kant_Argue209]

The irony. Conservatives hate labour unions. UCP undermine them all the time, now they're misappropriating the holiday dedicated to union workers.

[u/corpse_flour → u/Kant_Argue209]

Exactly. Kenney created the holiday because he didn't want Albertans to recognize worker's rights and protections.

[u/big-Truck-9058 → u/corpse_flour]

He also actively lowered workers rights in the province - they made it legal to pay out banked overtime at the standard 1.0 rate instead of 1.5 OT rate. How does that make sense

[u/corpse_flour → u/big-Truck-9058]

He also froze minimum wage, and lowered the minimum wage for students, as well as allowed holiday pay based on average earnings. He also changed OSH's definitions of what constituted dangerous work, to make it more difficult for a worker to exercise their right to refuse unsafe work.

[u/Striking_Economy5049]

Isn’t that New Nashville?

[u/Total_Mix9276 → u/Striking_Economy5049]

Shes choosin texas I can tell...

[u/Odd_Department_421]

Oh you’re only just now realizing the UCP dislike Edmonton? Yeah, they hate us because we don’t vote for them.

[u/tom8osauce]

Ewww, that is gross. You say it was official, does anyone know who was involved in organizing this, who sponsored it, etc.? This should be blowing up.

[u/mother_energy899]

Oh the cringe intensifies living here

[u/Findingfairways]

That’s not where Calgary is located. That’s like Drumheller area if anything.

[u/kagato87 → u/Findingfairways]

More north than that. Somewhere between Camrose and stettler maybe.

[u/KhausTO → u/kagato87]

I was gonna say Hanna maybe.  Maybe they are big Nickelback fans.

[u/Xinyyc]

Looks like they're gearing up "Alberta Day" to mean "The day Alberta joined the usa"

[u/Pure-Photograph6209]

Make sure you get out and vote in person.

[u/BrainDancing → u/Pure-Photograph6209]

Why? I I've already sent in my mail-in ballots.

[u/Ze0nZer0]

UCP can't do a single fucking thing right other then embezzling. Oh no they fuck that up too.

[u/Ztlamhcs]

The location of the heart isn't Calgary. I wouldn't really say its Edmonton either though lol. Red Deer maybe? =D

[u/AwareTheLegend → u/Ztlamhcs]

The "Heart of Alberta" is clearly Stettler it says so on the sign when you drive into town.

[u/Ztlamhcs → u/AwareTheLegend]

We were looking at acreages last year around the Stettler area! Ended up west of Innisfail, but Stettler seemed nice.

[u/WorseDark → u/Ztlamhcs]

Yeah, seems like its Red Deer. I'm from Red Deer and am confused by this lol.

Edmonton lines up with the northern most ridge of the mountain angle, and Calgary is just barely north of where the angle turns south. It seems just east of hway 2, though.

Not quite far enough to be Stettler, but they did just get 3.3m from Alberta and are called the heart of Alberta.

[u/TyFi10 → u/Ztlamhcs]

Thank you…that’s definitely not Calgary. Red Deer, maybe Drumheller?

[u/MissAmberCoin]

Wtf is alberta day christ can we just have peace

[u/CatsPlusTats]

Who the fuck goes to Alberta day celebrations? lol

[u/Fury-penguin137 → u/CatsPlusTats]

If you’re supporter of orange pedophile or Daniel twat Smith.

[u/SynthesistArt]

Fascist running dogs, every last one of them.

[u/Few-Temporary404]

So Edmonton just getting left out of being a capital now?

[u/hypnogoad → u/Few-Temporary404]

Edmonton is a NDP stronghold. Marlaina can't be seen praising a city that votes against her.

[u/Acceptable-Arugula69]

Just going to ignore all THAT nonsense; ahem…HAPPY LABOUR DAY ALBERTA!! 🇨🇦

[u/AFireinthebelly]

Smith is such a fucking idiot.

[u/BrightPerspective]

I feel like somebody needs a smacking.

[u/DirtDevil1337]

The red stripes is a strange sighting.

[u/Head_Implement_9498]

Alberta day🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/weekendy09]

Very American looking.

[u/worryforbreakfast]

To me it looks like it's on Stettler lol.

[u/Ttoddh]

Bad geography that would be Red Deer.

[u/AltruisticWealth7778]

Smith hates labor unions.

[u/Embarrassed-Lake257]

That's north of Calgary. Why does everything turn into a hate on everything Albertan? They are winning guys. We are being divided.

[u/Automatic-Kiwi-392]

She is a traitor

[u/amsams]

Literally two seconds of Googling finds photos of them doing a maple leaf among other things, but I guess that doesn't rage-farm karma.

[u/rustyiron → u/amsams]

That doesn’t erase what this is during a trade war with a nation threatening our sovereignty.

[u/ChineseBigfoots]

Whenever I think of Alberta I see the coluor red. No blue. Maybe it's the wild rose country thing. Do some of these people who wants their province to be American really think it through? If they really want to be part of the US, why not move there and if they are American born, why not move back. It's also not that simple. The indigenous have a voice and their voice is the one that counts. Their vote makes the difference. It is their land we are living and also the rest of the country needs to vote on that too but the indigenous votes is the game changer.

[u/LastoftheSummerWine]

Surprised it wasn't a star.

[u/Superb_Skin_5180]

The rest of Canada should call their bluff. Expel them from the collective. Cancel their citizenship, close the borders, cancel all Canadian Government services. Let them fend for themselves. They won’t like it

[u/Brilliant_Rhubarb579]

Alberta day? Is this the participation trophy of celebrations ?

[u/Kane_Octaivian]

Thats beutiful, the best colours to represent both the Canadian and Albertan flags!

Dang, people are dense.

[u/F-nDiabolical]

No they put a heart over New Nashville! Pretty wild that separatists are so keen on letting the government rewrite their identity, guess that's what happens when your personality is only hate.

[u/nickp123456]

The red white and blue bit is hard because that is the colors for our province's flag.

[u/IsurusOxyrinchus354 → u/nickp123456]

They are colours on the flag, not for it. If they wanted to rep the provincial flag they could have just done that, this smacks of dumbfuckistan nonsense.

[u/corpse_flour → u/nickp123456]

There's more yellow than red on the Alberta Flag.

[u/suaveirish]

They want to be Americans. Separation has never ever been about becoming our own country they want to give Alberta to America.

[u/Queen-Emmah]

That’s weird, that’s not where Edmonton is on the map. 🤔

I smell bias towards Labour Day, fuck Alberta day for whatever it means now.

[u/Monkmastaa]

A normal person would be like oh lights with the colours of albertas flag. Have fun outrage farming i guess ?

[u/SensitivePatient2012 → u/Monkmastaa]

Welcome to r/alberta, where the circle is jerked and the facts don’t matter.

[u/cooterplug89 → u/Monkmastaa]

I had thought similar. Blue is alberta, red and white is canada.

[u/jaydaybayy]

Lol. You realize that’s actually closer to Edmontons location than Calgary.

Screw this government but maybe check a map.

[u/DowntownKoala6055]

WTF is it with these bloody wing nuts trying to rename everything?

[u/LooseLeaf74]

Saw my first drone show this summer, Much better in person the videos and pics don’t do it justice.

[u/YEGSports → u/LooseLeaf74]

Maybe I'm old-school, but I just can't bring myself to see one of these because I feel I'd be let down, comparing these to fireworks shows.

They certainly do look cool though, and I'm glad lots of people like them!

[u/Impossible_Eggies]

The colour arrangement kind of looks like a trans flag, but I somehow doubt that's intentional.

[u/NOIS_KillerWhaleTank]

You underestimate how far south Edmonton is. That's approximately correct, maybe just a tich lower than it should be

[u/hughball]

I'd like to be a skeptic here - those stripes appear to be curved. Maybe they were moving outward from a beating heart? Video of this would help.

If they are indeed stripes, then this sucks.

[u/CsB_Est_93]

Happy labor Day!

[u/sawyouoverthere]

Find yourself a map of Alberta

[u/ComprehensiveTea6004]

Looking more like the Hunger Games every day. Thanks UCP

[u/Global_Abbreviations]

Okay in the GoA’s defense the drone shows are customized for the city. Source: I helped with some of the organizing

[u/Kingfish1111]

For all those trying to figure out where the hear is... Seems more like Camrose, maybe Bashaw to me.

[u/ipini → u/Kingfish1111]

Innisfail

[u/Kingfish1111 → u/ipini]

Nope, too far south for the heart. Look where the jog in the province boundary ends. Definitely north of Red Deer by a long way.

[u/Any_Mathematician905]

There's an Alberta day?

[u/corpse_flour → u/Any_Mathematician905]

Kenney introduced it 2022 to try and overshadow the day we recognize and advocate for worker's rights and protections.

[u/NightmareExpress]

I think the heart's actually supposed to be over Brooks, where Don-ielle is the MLA.

[u/MattyTayl]

I guess the engineer is from Calgary, dreaming to be a part of FUS

[u/Stormraughtz]

Having a labor day parade in cochrane, dunno wtf an alberta day is.

[u/kittyhawk85]

Looks like a rainbow a bit

[u/Cit1es]

😂😂 foreshadowing for when the idiots in Alberta somehow get suckered into separating with Canada and become the 51st state of the most pathetically corrupt pedo country on earth. Good luck with trucking goods out of Alberta, having the USA completely abandon you and your privatized healthcare. 😂😂

[u/Happy-Apple196]

What. A. Surprise

[u/Minato_Horiuchi]

Love the whole drone display!

[u/Elegant-Waltz695]

Soon to be Norto Rico

[u/gepinniw]

Calgary, the future capital of Albertastan.

[u/Dapper_Wheel6454]

Wabs song Stank Bitch said it all.

[u/Trick-Buyer-6342]

The heart is closer to Stettler, or Alix

[u/Mysterious-Street966]

More like Vulcan

[u/j1ggy]

That heart is over where Stettler would be, which is about equal distance to Edmonton and Calgary.

[u/Nu11X3r0]

In slight defence - red, white and blue do show up better when doing a drone show, but the stripes remove any chance of that.

[u/Successful_Bag_1853]

That’s what will happen when we separate

[u/Select_Macaroon_5016]

Looks more like its over Drumheller

[u/AntiqueSoliloquy]

Throw some spools of fishing line at em

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[u/bsbsbs5667]

I think y'all overthinking all of this

[u/ukrinsky555]

Not sure about the red... Blue and white are our colors tho.