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hmm, I was thinking about visiting Calgary this summer. What's up with Alberta?
They're trying very hard to be Texas north. The Premier of the province is ignoring science and, in many cases, logic. Anti-vax. That's one reason they have more measles than the entire USA. There is even a fringe group that wants Alberta to secede from Canada and join the US.
The economy is largely based on oil, so many of them deny climate change.
Ironically, they have some of the most beautiful scenery in the country, if not the world.
gramie already mostly answered in line with what I'd say: there is an alt-right political shift there, where the lunatics are running the asylum and we keep expecting for sanity to re-emerge. Every country has a pocket like this somewhere. Most people in Calgary are perfectly nice, in the same way that most people in Omaha are perfectly nice, until a trans person is on TV.
The NDP just won 2/3 of last weeks byelections here. We do have a loud minority voice of right wing crazy but if anything the province is moving away from the right.
Wish you luck 🤞
I am involved in local governance here and its not fun under the UCP but its not the bleak right wing hellscape the rest of the nation says it is.