50 Replies to “Are You More of an Albertan or a [Big City] Canadian?”

  1. There’s a lot of ‘Albertans” on SDA … and a lot of Canadians in Edmonton and Calgary.

    1. Very accurate!

      But those in Canada who worship Big Government and Safetyism are quickly destroying the country.

      1. It’s rural vs urban. And it’s not exclusively defined by boundaries or borders, but rather, by mindset.

    2. Sorry to say ‘The Albertans’ are vastly outnumbered. You’ll NEVER vote your way out of this … anymore than I will here in Californica.

  2. Albertan.

    and it’s not even close anymore, like many people, I grew up being told daily that I live in the greatest country on the earth, and for a time I believed it. That was long ago. The great awakening for me occurred in the 1972-76 area when I realized that gov’t control over our lives would do the same here as it has done in any other area of the world it was tried, and there was very little anyone could do to stop that runaway train headed our way.

    Leave Canada, or help Alberta leave Canada, seem to be the only way forward, though I hope Saskatchewan comes too.

    1. Green card application in. I am fortunate to have a wife who is an American citizen. Meantime thinking seriously about moving to Alberta. The wait time even for spouses is now up to two years because so many Canadians are trying to get into the USA legally. If Alberta separated and became it’s own nation I’d live there.

      1. The folks who are full time promoting the AB separation referendum are expecting they’ll be successful in calling for this vote by the end of this year 2025, and that it’ll be called to an actual vote in early 2026… hopefully before it is time for spring seeding is how they’d refer to this in Sask.

    2. “The great awakening for me occurred in the 1972-76 area when I realized that gov’t control over our lives would do the same here as it has done in any other area of the world it was tried”

      For me it was ‘gun control’. The government just started randomly attacking gun owners to gain more votes from urban women (especially after the so-called “Montreal Massacre”), seemingly not caring that legal gun owners, as a group, were some of the most law-abiding citizens in Canada. The Liberals, aided by the ‘Progressive’ Conservatives and the NDP, implemented one ridiculous law after another (often using OICs to bypass Parliament)…even after some their own bureaucrats put out a report castigating them for adding more new ‘gun control’ laws before determining the effectiveness of the previous ones. Didn’t matter…the point was not to reduce gun crime or gun violence, it was to buy votes from a gullible public.

      It continues to this day, and will never stop unless a real conservative government is elected in Canada (not holding my breath on that)…

  3. The only problem I see is that there are far more public sector consultants and activists in Alberta than there are entrepreneurs, trade workers and oil workers. And they wear cowboy hats, cowboy boots and jeans and don’t ride horses.

    2. Bingo! Steve from Rockwood.
      I have < 0% confidence in any province separating and that includes Quebec.
      Much financial and psychic capital will be wasted in this pre-doomed pursuit.
      Albertans are different only in a mythic sense — not in reality.

  6. I live in a big city, but either it’s my age or my (sane half of the) family’s Sask (1888) and Alberta roots coming through.

    In the Greater Toronto Area you get to see what the Laurentian Elites have planned for Canada, and it isn’t healthy, it isn’t safe and it isn’t productive.

    1. Texas is getting hollowed out by blue lefties as well (see Austin). Urban (left) versus rural (right). People who live in the country are self-reliant and want less government. People who live in the cities want more government because they are highly reliant on others. The problem is getting city dwellers to want less government. An impossible task IMO.

      2. Actually that isn’t really accurate. There are over a half million people a year moving into Texas (many from California)….they are fleeing the blue lefties. Trump increased his percentage of the vote from 2020 (52% to 56% in 2024).

  8. May be good to note how the national poll is showing, many on the right think the federal gov’t is failing at everything it touches, while the Mexicans are making good headway negotiating a tariff structure with the USA, while the President of the USA won’t answer the PM of Canada’s phone calls.
    So much lol in this…
    Here’s something from the future shouting at you folks who think we’re going to improve Canada:

    https://338canada.com

    This looks like the beginnings of a long term majority, in which the federal gov’t can do anything it wants.
    There are 2 provinces actually standing in the way, Ontario sitting on the fence, the Nova Scotian Conservatives have just blocked people from walking into “the woods” until October, or for landowners who permit others from walking into their woods… Is the gov’t of NS going to pay individuals for policing “the woods”?

    https://x.com/RealMattA_/status/1953065376876556485
    Everything for your safety… religious gatherings in Montreal, Mayors across the country thinking they can mandate which Christians can gather and sing because their new ringleader is a MAGA?
    uff.. that Covid training is showing its value now!

      1. The traitors have already started. Elections Alberta approved Lukaszuk‘s stay in Kanada petition. Ours has been referred to the courts. It’s gonna have to get down right nasty before things improve. It’s just befuddling that there are idiots who love it up the butt from Ottawa.

        1. Lukaszuk’s petition is meaningless….it does not stop other petitions from being conducted.

        1. They are easy to handle….just do a better job than the Liberals…there are corrupt Chiefs and Councils that stop the tribe members from having their say.

        3. Feather or Dot?

          Dot ones already outnumber feather ones and they do not carry any generational colonial survivor’s guilt.
          In a few years, the feather ones will be begging for a white man to fleece!

      3. Well Nanos on-line polls aren’t reliable. Canada is cracking much like the former Soviet Union did.

  9. I identify with Albertan although I am a British Columbian. So how do I get in touch with BC separation people?

    1. I think you’ll need to shear off the south coast first. My neighbours love them some government regulation and “protection”.

      The urge to move is growing for me.

  10. “Tell me, do you identify as Canadian or Albertan?”

    I identify as a Bolo. 33,000 ton continental siege unit. Two megatons per second, baby.

    As to the rest, city vs. rural. City has all the people and therefore all the votes, government flows to them. Country is where the food is grown. Too much government, food stops.

    They’ll keep squeezing until they get hungry. They will never get smart until there’s no meat at #WallyMart. Then they will find out how hard it is to walk 20 miles.

    I live lots more than 20 miles from the nearest city. By the time the zombie hordes walk all the way here, they’ll be f-ed. It’ll be a zombie corporal’s guard, not a sea of them.

    1. You’re right about famine.
      Energy, for the most part, also comes from the country.
      Cities are zoos and if the Keepers don’t show with water and food…
      I think there’d be a lot of cannibalism in the cities and I think that would be even worse than actual zombies.
      (That’s why .22 is such a good caliber. Still pretty cheap ammo.)
      Lose energy and food in the dead of winter and there’ll be a lot of long pig cooking over wood.
      Or receive a large enough asteroid and winter becomes a 365 day season.

    2. Bolo… Now there is a name that brings back memories! Thank you!

      Controlled by their tireless electronic brains which were programmed to admit no possibility of defeat, the gigantic robot tanks known as Bolos were almost indestructible, and nearly unstoppable.

      1. Welcome. It is no surprise we don’t hear more about Bolos. They’re a little too on-point for squirmy Leftists to allow.

        But if you like Bolos, you should go read my books. Giant tanks and robot girlfriends vs. space aliens. Click my handle next to the blonde wearing the bacon dress, she’ll lead the way. ~:D

  11. Been to Saskatoon lately? Full of Canadians.

    WEXIT will never happen: there are just not enough of the guys on the left of that image out here. The western cities are just as corrupt as the eastern cities. And in the rural areas, well… let’s just say that Tommy Douglas wasn’t wrong. It’s Deliverance without the canoes.

    I hope I am wrong. I pray to G-d that I am wrong. And when the Albertans and Saskatchewanistanis decide to take a run at it, I will fight and die with them.

  12. in extreme cases its the *left* itself brings on the famine:
    Chirer the great famine 60s
    ethiopia once the marxists took hold
    and elsewhere on the continent s ahfricah under present marxists
    and STILL the dumfkcu voters make their choice gambling the freebies will flow non-stop

  13. You see, as flawed human beings, politicians are infallible, their edicts omnipotent, citizens radically passive. Any who disagree are thus flawed and it’s the right of the state, indeed the duty, to crush them.

    Welcome to statism, as described in excruciating detail by Bastiat and Hayek.

    Both who further argue that because of the inherent failures and flaws of it and the narcissistic nannies who rule over it, statism doubles down on failure, refuses to admit error, double standards abound, and eventually but inevitably morphs into collectivism of neo-regal dear leaders, thievery, shared misery and social credit scores.

  14. Albertan … born and raised…. I’ve have been waiting for independence for over 50 years

      2. Oooh, there’s a rebel song in there: “”You can live as loyal as you like, but we all die independent…” Must work on that.

    2. Albertan.
      Conservative.

      I was born in BC (I had no say in that), but my family has been in Alberta since 1909. Came here for work, I’ve been here over 30 years, and no, I didn’t bring my regressive voting policies with me, which is more that I can say for the other British Columbians and Ontarians that I see moving here..

      I would vote for separation, but I don’t think there are enough of us, Vs the citiots, to make a go of it.. Best would be to turn all large metropolitan areas into federal districts and leave the rural dwellers alone!

  15. As a 3rd generation Albertan, exiled in Manitoba, I know where my roots are and where I stand, but agree for the most part it is a City/Rural thing.

  16. For a few years in the ’90’s, I lived in Halifax (beautiful city in Spring, Summer and Fall, but the other 8 months suck). I’m from the West Coast. Well meaning Maritimers would ask me how “the West” was different from the Maritimes. I basically described the Albertan. I would say “Western Canadians think the best days are ahead and they are working hard to make sure it turns out that way. Maritimers think the best days are in the past, most likely the days ‘in the old country'”. Some of them can point to 6 generations in the local cemetery. Sadly, I don’t see as much of the Albertan in BC’ers anymore, but there are a few. Good to see there are a few left in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Fight the good fight.

  17. There’s no better food then what comes from your efforts.
    Enjoying summer on the lake at Grandpa’s homestead, spitting distance to AB.
    I’d say it’s a done deal for Yes.
    Ya gotta want to be here.

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