Well you might want to inform them to watch out for the same stupid s*** that's infecting them. While you're up there because if we can't be saying we can at least help our neighbors keep their sanity
for context, I receive;
Canada Pension Disability (FED)
Ontario Disability Support (100% clawsback my pension)
Trillium Benefit
Quarterly GST,Canada Workers Benefit,Climate Action Benefit
I'M STILL BELOW THE POVERTY LINE.
That's how LOW Disability Supports are.
Sane for now. Soon, it will be the 51st state!! Canadians will regret ever being too nice! Our poor neighbors to the north. I have no idea how they got roped into our sh#t show!!!
Unfortunatelythis time next year we will have a PM who sees your insane country as our model. That's mainly because the centre-left vote in Canada is divided among 4 parties. But people in those parties and to their left will be united in preventing conservatives from undoing our social programs.
Sane? Ref this entry from the Online Harms Act Justin Trudeau’s Justice Minister Arif Virani proposed in 2024: “Rewarding people who snitch on their “hateful” neighbors up to $20,000 and making the thought criminals pay up to $50,000.”
She barely won but FPTP gonna FPTP. As if Ontario, with far more humans living there, is much better. They'll make sure P.P. gets elected, far more dangerous.
Perhaps “saner” as a nation, but regionally, ideologically, it’s just a low-rent, colder version of Texas with dinner theatre actors cosplaying as the GOP. Yee-fn-haw.
Went on a driving / tent camping 6-week vacation 15 years ago.
Probably 100 mi. West of Calgary a farmer had a good sized American flag on a 30' pole near his mailbox.
Surprised me.
Relatively speaking.. Canadians have Dental, Medical, Equal Rights, 17.00 min wage, no school shootings, 1 in 1000 in jail (vs 1 in 100) and yet our Federal taxes are near identical.
Get real. Canada ranks in the top 10-15 countries in the world every year on almost every GLOBAL Index including the Freedom Index, Democracy Index, Press Freedom Index, Education Index, etc. The US never does.
I love Canada. It's a beautiful, clean, safe country. Have been there several times, but from Perth Australia, it's a 23-hour flight!! Enjoy your culture shock, George 😂
I Loved Perth oh my!! ❤️❤️❤️ I worked at a summer camp on rottnest island. I would live there. Wanna do an exchange hahaha 😂 I’m interior BC 4 hours to vancouver maybe 8 to Calgary 2 to Kelowna
How awesome! Yes, Perth is amazing, I also love it here. The peaceful lifestyle and the weather and the beaches 💕💕💕We go every summer to Rotto and see the quokkas. Hope you come back again!!
I just read this and had to laugh. We all have troubles, of course, but this was a funny post from a humor standpoint. I love our neighbors from the North. Be good to each other, and use us as a warning of what happens when the media and government divide the people. Don't let it happen to you.
I visited Montreal a couple of times, and I worked in a duty-free store as a kid in the 90s when Quebec was trying to separate. Back then, I thought it was weird that nobody knew English. Then I grew up and realized they spoke/understood English. They were just being snobby deuchbags. No offense.
Yes, I'm aware of the history. As I mentioned in my post I was working at a duty free store when they were buying loads of champagne the night they thought they had enough votes to secede from Canada. Guess I didn't read the room right.
The Canadian news says that there’s a good chance Trudeau will be unseated by a fascistic right winger soon. Will Canada still be sane if this happens. This is disturbing.
Ha no, we're just too polite to say "F__k off you egregious As_h__e. We don't want your medical debt, high incarceration rate, and school shootings. Try it and the white house burns down again"
I read somewhere that there are some conservative groups up there that are supportive of a unification. I cant find the article now but I really hope its not true. There are nuts everywhere though.
Hmmm, you're in Alberta, where the premier wants to withdraw her province from the federal pension plan. And the conservatives are trying to elect one modeled on the orange one. We aren't crazy, but we aren't without our travails.
When I was 5-yrs old I thought Canada was a state because you were attached to the US 😂 😂 How pleasantly surprised I was when everything was explained to me.
I love the kindness and beauty of your country; I actually felt safe there.
Trump best keep his slimy hands to himself; he’s a menace.
There are a large number of sane people in Alberta and a strengthening army of responsible. Unfortunately right now the wolves are in charge of the coop.
As an Ontario who hates the whole Ford family, we're only slightly better than Alberta. Our problem is extremely low voter turnout. I hope that changes in the next election..
As someone living in the northern most region of the province, I came to argue he’d come to the most insane place in Canada… but maybe that’s just as telling to how insane our neighbour to the south has degenerated if WE appear sane…
Yeah, but Edmonton is very different from the rest of the province -- almost as open-minded as Montréal, Toronto and Vancouver. Even the city's conservatives pine for a return to Notman's NDP government.
Really!? My family is there and I am not so sure about how open minded they are, more conservative than you can believe and won’t even bring up my mom’s boyfriends SIL who is openly anti Muslim and full MAGA
I've met people like that in Ottawa and Montréal, too. It takes all sorts, doesn't it? But Edmonton is still progressive in the main... white- and blue-collar alike.
Alberta's Premier is attending Trump's Inauguration & she suggested the U.S. is behind chemtrails dumping toxic chemicals on Alberta. So George you are entering the most red-pilled MapleMAGA province in Canada.
I suggest a stopover in Quebec on your way home as a palate cleanser.
More than welcome in the rest of Europe. You will find the same all over, regardless of the entire spectrum of politics in different combinations/coalitions. Healthcare and Education equals civility.
As an American working in CDA, I have to say their problems are minor compared to the racism, hatred ignorance, religious zealots, lies &division of the US. They are far more civilized . They have their problems, but if they can keep pierre-pollievre out of their politics they'll do better than us.
Me too! I spent the past week with family in Calgary & returning to Florida tomorrow. I’m gearing up mentally & spiritually for what’s coming in January. Send me strength 💙
Tragic but true. I knew many Albertans 30 years ago.... Don't recognise them anymore. All the usual stereotypes, they hide behind fake evangelicalism, are very poorly educated, anti vax, many repost RFK jnr, they supported those stupid convoy protests. It's pathetic
This is absolutely not true. As anywhere in the world there are pockets of crazies but the majority of Canadians are well educated, empathetic, civilized, and appreciative.
Apologies if our experience ls differ. Mine is that many from the central provinces have a poor level of education. I never said the majority or gave indication of proportion.
Welcome to Calgary, lived here my entire life. It's a fantastic city with lots to enjoy! As far as Alberta goes, yes we have the MapleMAGA UCP government in place, an utter disgrace and embarrassment to our once proud province.
There’s a stark difference between rural and urban in Alberta. Just like red states. The older inner parts of Calgary are liberal. The city is alive with cultures from around the world. Edmonton is liberal, too. The NDP will likely win the next provincial election.
sadly- you are kinda correct. I live here and we have been taken over by a she-witch in love with trump-- BUT we have a resistance---- SO, not all of us are hill billies... sadly too many are!
Trump knows that too. He feels emboldened to acquire CANADA with the flip of a switch. I’m not sure if he’s aware of something we’re not thinking about! Stolen elections in Canada.
Have you met Scott Moe? My demented Premier beats yours 😂 and no, for my money Daniel Smith sitting down with TuckerCarlson puts her in the lead for most insane.
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Canada Pension Disability (FED)
Ontario Disability Support (100% clawsback my pension)
Trillium Benefit
Quarterly GST,Canada Workers Benefit,Climate Action Benefit
I'M STILL BELOW THE POVERTY LINE.
That's how LOW Disability Supports are.
Wait until you see your first MAGA hat on a Canadian. It's even more ridiculous.
I want @charlieangus104.bsky.social to not retire and run for PM. he would be epic. ❤️
Election interference report is coming.
I’m pretty sure my feelings are hurt.
Probably 100 mi. West of Calgary a farmer had a good sized American flag on a 30' pole near his mailbox.
Surprised me.
- a resident of YYC
That they oppose pipelines doesn’t doesn’t mean they hate Canada..
I’m quite proud to live in a truly bilingual Country. Not everyone has to be my color or speak English to be a fabulous Canadian.
That requirement sounds very American.
It was their right to have that vote.
I was there that day, came from BC to talk to locals. I was asking them to stay; telling them, in French, I love and respect them.
Not calling them duchebags. Because that’s how you divide.
Enjoy!
- a Canadian follower 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
I love the kindness and beauty of your country; I actually felt safe there.
Trump best keep his slimy hands to himself; he’s a menace.
Until a LOT changes, Alberta is little better than Texas
(Hey Albertans, remember Texas has Austin & El Paso & College Station, & so what? They're still Texas)
...still more civilized than Oklahoma
Alberta's premier is MAGA.
It's unfortunate that the rest of the province is so generationally programmed by rw rhetoric.
I suggest a stopover in Quebec on your way home as a palate cleanser.
🔴🤍😍🥰
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61801682
Enjoy your stay.
Stay as long as you want.
It’s reasonably sane over here.
Whether you’re just visiting or relocating, you’re certainly welcome.
The madness is what gives us life. It is what sustains us now.
Sorry.
Enjoy your stay! 🇨🇦
Calgary is not exactly… sane. More like the Alabama of Canada.🙄
There’s a stark difference between rural and urban in Alberta. Just like red states. The older inner parts of Calgary are liberal. The city is alive with cultures from around the world. Edmonton is liberal, too. The NDP will likely win the next provincial election.
The city of
BTO
Neil Young
Burton Cummings
Guess Who
else...
Inuit art gallery.
🍁
Now it's Saskatoon!
The Guess Who. Burton Cummings. Hit!
I don’t suppose you could take some of our MAGA politically minded back with you, could you?
Please
the old joke
honey? I think we're lost. roll down the window and ask someone?
excuse me sir, where are we?
"Saskatoon, Saskatchewan"
we're really lost, they speak a different language
The USA 😅
-24F but was worth it!
White supremacists like Trump in charge
I'm lived in #BC for 35 years, so when people claim they have a crazy premier, I just laugh ...
source: https://globalnews.ca/news/9633315/live-alberta-election-results-2023-vote/
MAGA old guard of Hateful unrepentant Racist accuse MEGA 100% China Owned!
#MEGA #USDemocracy