Alberta Election
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I don't see where the federal Liberals and PCs differ drastically on policy lately, or at least where they're taking a definitive liberal position, except that Justin is not Stephen. Maybe Justin's position that his party must be pro-choice. What else, other than he's good looking - he lets his hair grow a little long and unkempt?
In the States, the southern Red States completely throw off that median. Anyone looks liberal compared to politicians in Texas and Alabama, etc.
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ChemGal
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I thought this was a nice summary:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/elections/al...015-the-rural-urban-divide-1.3062810?cmp=fbtl
I wasn't paying attention to the smaller cities - I wouldn't have guess Medicine Hat & Lethbridge would go NDP as well.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/elections/al...015-the-rural-urban-divide-1.3062810?cmp=fbtl
I wasn't paying attention to the smaller cities - I wouldn't have guess Medicine Hat & Lethbridge would go NDP as well.
I could see Lethbridge...my bias because I have a couple of relatives that are so socially liberal that I couldn't see them living there if their community wasn't flexible. My Edmonton relatives, quite conservative. My Calgary relatives quite well off - retired from oil and gas- so likely conservative. But they like Nenshi. I was surprised to see so much NDP support in Calgary and Edmonton but I see those places through what I know of my family and predicting how they'd vote, so it's a biased view.
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Further South has more of the bible belt. While the cities are less so, it's there.
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Interesting because my Edmonton relatives fit the evangelical bible belt description very much, very religious - my Lethbridge relatives totally opposite - probably UCCan or UU or agnostic, not sure nowadays, but very liberal minded. My Calgary relatives retired from oil are non-religious conservatives, and another aunt in Calgary is in Reiki, tai chi, and Asian natural healing arts. Not at all conservatives - but they aknowledge they are not necessarily the mainstream. So, exceptions to the rule, I guess. I always "felt" Edmonton was more socially conservative than Calgary but only slightly - moreso after Nenshi got elected in Calgary - just because of who I stayed with there, I guess. I have other relatives from smaller towns too - bible belt I would guess. (my parents were Albertans born and raised. I and my half brother are the only family not raised in Alberta.)
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ChemGal
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I think this entire election show there has been a change! I don't pay a great deal of attention to those specific cities to know what the major issues are there. While they do have certain religious groups, they don't represent anyone.
I'm second generation Albertan. 
Alex
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This election, the one on Monday in PEI, and the last Federal Election are good examples of how the traditional electoral politics are changing, and people are just more likely to vote differently than before. Not only has the NDP winning in the last places people would expect (alberta and Quebec) but people see the value in voting for small parties like the Greens in PEI and the ALberta Party. I think this is being caused by the way we get information today. Social media and the Internet is radically different than relying on 4 or 5 media companies for information. IOt's affecting how people see themselves.
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A very rough, stereotypical guideline. Edmonton is considered to be blue collar, Calgary is white. Edmonton has a large Ukrainian population, I believe Calgary is the Canadian city with the most number of Americans. Up north the male to female ratio is high, everyone drives a truck (seriously, parking in a parking lot in Whitecourt in my car sucked, I had to back out so far before I could see!) and strippers are toured in. The south has the bible belt - some from the US, quite a few Mormons. Hutterites are south of Calgary. There's also Baptists, I'm not sure of the immigration story. There's also similar groups (Dutch?) to what you see in BC's Fraser Valley.
Just because the strippers are toured in doesn't make it socially liberal...just...never mind I bite my tongue. Yes, there were a ton of big wheel pick up trucks parked at West Edmonton Mall especially, and on the road, a year and a half ago. Brand spanking new ones. Yeah, probably like Abbottsford. That's BC's Alberta - or so I thought. This changes everything! Alberta seemed culturally a world away everytime I went there the last few times. But maybe not so much. It's us on the west coast who are the oddballs from the rest of Canada.
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Anyway, this made my day. G'night.
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You thought my description of Northern Alberta was implying liberal? It's the male, oil, redneck area.
The trucks up there are nothing like what you see in the city. Seeing a car is actually quite rare.
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Tomorrow? Dunno, I'm not a big political person.
That's about what I was going to say but I bit my tongue. You said it first. 
Even in the city of Edmonton, there are more pick up trucks than you see here by about 10 to 1. We've got more compact cars on the road here compared to big vehicles. A lot of that is weather related. But there are a lot of those raised big wheel monster pick-ups in and around Edmonton, I noticed while we were riding in a relative's smaller car, that you rarely ever see here. It was so weird when one of those big suckers stopped beside us at a light! And don't make eye contact with the drivers - some tough lookin dudes 
They're just not in style here. I don't even know if they're legal here. I am pretty sure the last one I saw was in Alberta.
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Why all the concern and chaos ... tis just another politiesnowjob ant the politics with forte have us just where they wish us!
Such is brute force of naïveté!
... intelligence rests an in our present state we appear unthinkable ...
When in Rome be as the Romans or people will believe you abnormal ... and what's normal is a decent inquiry!
Such is brute force of naïveté!
... intelligence rests an in our present state we appear unthinkable ...When in Rome be as the Romans or people will believe you abnormal ... and what's normal is a decent inquiry!