I will give this government one thing, and one thing only. They make the most harebrained ass backwards decisions in the world when it comes to policy. But they do respond to public criticism, sometimes. I still am no fan, that’s for sure. But when they are being extra gross, sometimes even these freaks know when to back off, whereas a lot of other administrations would double down and bear the criticism. So bravo for seeing right from wrong, but maybe don’t make stupid ass decisions like this in the first place. Maybe focus a little less on rule by Facebook and corporate supporters, and focus more on the people who got you there, and what their actual needs are.
Man, I wouldn’t “give” them that point at all. The backtracking IS the scheme. They implement whatever completely shit ideological policy that’s their flavour of the day, and UNLESS the populace reacts strongly, they say “welp, everyone must be in favour because no one screamed loud enough”.
It’s a fucking horseshit dirty way of implementing public policy and it’s absolutely exhausting because they are doing it EVERYWHERE.
Of course it’s cruel. Smith’s entire political existence revolves around (a) hurting anyone who isn’t wealthy, white, and straight; and (b) gathering authoritarian power to herself.
That’s it. Everything she does is for power and cruelty.
Hey, Premiere Smith and the UCP need that $6.2 million to do important stuff! It’s much better spent to tell struggling kids that gender dysphoria isn’t real. Or to remove wind turbines blocking pristine views of oil derricks. Or to go around kicking homeless people or something.
This province just seems full of cruel people, that are cruel for no reason. I mean yeah, the UCP, low hanging fruit. But other non-political people even, Albertans need to fucking relax and realize that most of them got it pretty god damn good. They need to be speaking up against this, and telling their elected officials that this isn’t ok. You know, protecting their more vulnerable neighbours. But they won’t, because I’ve never met so many self centered people as I have here.
Obviously not saying we can blanket apply this to everyone, like I’ve met some awesome Albertans too. But the selfish, cruel ones outnumber them like 10 to 1. Maybe it’s the fact that there’s historically been a higher standard of living here, which is also something these people should be ashamed of as well, that they’ve let this evaporate with horseshit like this.
But the selfish, cruel ones outnumber them like 10 to 1.
I think a vocal minority causes that perception, but it’s probably not reflective of the whole.
Provincial NDP enjoyed 44% of the popular vote in the last AB provincial election. BC NDP for reference was 47%.
Ontarians are 50% more likely than an Albertan to hold the belief that abortions should never be legal.
BC’s hate crime rate is the highest in the country.
I guess my point is that anecdotes are anecdotes, stats are stats. There are fucks in every province. I think people would be surprised to see how little variation there is between the statistical attitudes between their glorious home province and the backwards savages in AB.
Oh absolutely there are fuckheads in every province. Statistics will definitely show you that. It’s the vitrol that the opinions come with, at least in my super non scientific, totally anecdotal observations, that always takes me by surprise a bit. Albertas are really really passionate with their ugliness, in my observations, and that’s absolutely unique to this province. I think even people just observing can agree with that. You are right too, that it’s very likely the vocal minority skewing the perception, but the perception is still the perception. I’ve met some really great Albertans, and some really shitty Ontarians and BC’ers. But the ugliness casts a shadow here.
While Kenney was in power they also removed the ability to claim transit fares on your taxes. And changed the rules for overtime and stat holidays in favour of the employer.
They really hate the working class. (That means you too, rig pigs)
I think that was actually a federal elimination first, so it kind of made sense that the province followed. I don’t necessarily blame them for that, if anything I’d blame the liberals on that one.
The overtime and stat holiday rules have also always been shit in Alberta. That goes way way back, long before the United Dunce Party formed.
I was just stating a fact, and not my opinions whether it’s right or wrong as a whole. If I remember correctly, it was taken away as part of the changes that preceded the Carbon Tax Rebate, which in turn actually likely nets you more money in the long run.
As for the labor laws, they are shit in this country as a whole, and no I’m not OK with that. What do you want me to do about it though? I vote accordingly, it’s everyone else that’s fucking idiots.
This year CBC cancelled their annual NYE Party, and we cancelled our cable anyway, so were curious about where to watch the festivities. calgary.ca linked to a simulcast on CJSW, so that was something at least.
Sadly, the DJ droned on several minutes into what should have been the event, and was forcibly faded out so that we could hear half of the Indigenous blessing, followed by Gondek’s address. Worse, it was delayed by ~30 seconds, so that we could hear the fireworks going off before the mayor got to her countdown.
Kind of a mess, honestly. I hope the ground show was good.
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