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US source but a solid read.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As a former Albertan, there's still a lot I like about the province, such as lots of people who are educated, principled, and hard working.

Of course, that's not everyone, and even among the well-educated are many engineers who think in black and white and lack much of the education from the humanities that would give perspective on history. The oil industry is also very powerful, full of arrogance about the industry, dominated by US business, and tends to celebrate good times from high oil prices as a sign of their own excellence while blaming hard times from low oil prices on the rest of Canada and "liberal policies".

Calgary and Edmonton are also both much more politically diverse than the rest of the province and are pretty socially conscious and have a lot of people who dislike that about the province's politics.

I just worry about Albertans being specifically targeted from outside Canada via US social platforms and oil industry professional networks to undermine unity and foment separatism.