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Alberta Forcing Teachers Back To Work Is A Historic Loss (www.readthemaple.com)

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Premier Danielle Smith has used the ‘notwithstanding clause’ to shield the strike-breaking bill from a court challenge.

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[-] Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 28 points 4 months ago

Person from Ontario who moved to Alberta 15 years ago here. Want to know the secret of why no one outside Alberta cares about Alberta? Because Alberta isn't special, and the oil and gas patch isn't special. Its a nice little windfall that will run out one day and the province has no plan B.

I've had to have this conversation with coworkers who complain about how no one in BC or out east care about Alberta and when I ask then if they care about automotive layoffs in Ontario, or loss of fisheries jobs on the east coast, or cost of living issues on the west coast, they outright say they don't give a shit or they say "its different". Its not different, Alberta isn't the economic powerhouse of Canada that it thinks it is. Beyond that though, we have a really fucking stupid government that's actively destroying what's left of our education and healthcare systems, and the dumb fuck hicks outside Calgary and Edmonton do in fact eat it up hook line And sinker.

[+] Binzy_Boi@piefed.ca 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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[-] Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Let me ask you something, why the fuck would the feds help Alberta? For real though, why would they? I remember back in 2014 in the middle of the oil crash watching coworker after coworker get laid off from their high paying O&G jobs while the federal government extended EI benefits to them, continue to blame all their woes on a liberal government that had nothing to do with a middle eastern, Russian and US Shale production Oil glut. Alberta continues to play the victim in federal politics saying "Ottawa never helps us" even when the liberals bought and funded the completion of a pipeline that was so unpopular that it barely made it across the finish line and had to be forced through jurisdictions that didn't want it there.

And okay let's talk Danielle smith and fucking diversification. Who fucking cares about hydrogen cars? Who's using them? What are people actually using, OH BEVS AND PHEVS, and they are a pretty good solution with sound technology? WEIRD. Maybe she shouldn't have put an axe through our solar and wind renewable market and scared of investors from the province with the excuse of "windmills messing with the view of the Rockies" but slyly pushing for coal mining in the eastern rockies at the same time. I mean I can walk out my front door right now, walk across the street and look at a natural gas processing plant fucking flare up with the rockies as a back drop.

You want the feds to support Alberta farmers? Tell them To stop voting conservative, every single fucking time. Make them into a voting block that will vote for whatever party will actually move away from aligning on every US policy even if its detrimental to our relationship with foreign (Chinese) buyers.

Fucking joke province sometimes.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It is so easy to go out there and support our canola farmers through tariffs on olive oil and other cooking oils, as well as marketing campaigns to Canadian consumers, yet that doesn't happen.

You'd run more tariffs - already usually a mistake - just to prop up a sector so people don't have to switch crops?

I was educated in Calgary, but I worry they've slipped.

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[-] Bo7a@piefed.ca 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I downvoted because you are just toeing the usual 'alberta is special and here is why the rest of you have to adapt' bullshit that we have heard a million times. Get over it. We are not all misled into thinking that most of the province is regressive. That is how it is.

The majority of that province is hateful morons being super proud of themselves. I lived there for 20 years, my wife for all of her life. So don't go saying I am just following the herd. The facts are simply that outside of calgary and edmonton the vast majority of albertans are insular xenophobes.

Are you seeing a ton of small towns in any other province where the town meetings are full of assholes bleating about wanting to join the US? Because I can tell you right now the acme, beiseker, trochu, three hills, irricana, and carbon, town meetings are FULL of these fucking people.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca -1 points 4 months ago

the province has no plan B

Want some irony? The NDP held Alberta for a long time, until Peter Lougheed won it for the conservatives on a platform of diversifying away from oil to build a healthy and resilient economy.

Then they elected him and threw out the plan, suckling at the oil teat that much harder.