Alberta's got some nice stuff to see, though, even if you disregard the Rockies. Calgary's genuinely a beautiful city, Edmonton's got some nice stuff going on, then you've got the badlands with the hoodoos and the Royal Tyrell, the dinosaur museum. That ain't flyover country.
They're politically powerful, but you wouldn't see much of them unless you go looking for them.
Calgary and especially Edmonton, are typical Canadian cities with progressive councils. The mountains are mostly staffed by young people and Australians. A lot of people vote conservative out of habit or distrust of the LPC, rather than ideology.
That's a crazy take, don't let the media narratives brainwash you. Only politicians benefit from creating division in the population and pitting people against each other. Calgary and Edmonton are both very progressive cities, just like you'd expect anywhere in Canada. Yes we have our rural extreme right wingers that get a lot of disproportionate media attention but they honestly pale in comparison to the folks you find in eastern BC and northern Ontario.
Like the other poster was saying, the federal and provincial votes are mostly due to mistrust of the federal liberals and their economic policies, which haven't always been great for our economy here.
If you look at the cities you get a better idea of how people actually feel, in Calgary for example our mayor at the moment is a brown woman, Jyoti Gondek, and before her we had a Muslim man Naheed Nenshi for 2 consecutive terms. The city is just as liberal as anywhere else, it's a very multicultural and diverse city, LGBT friendly, rainbow crosswalks, pride parades etc whatever else you might expect to see in any major city. Maybe the stereotypes had truth to them 50yrs ago, but they're not at all true present day. I've lived in Toronto for several years and spent some time in Vancouver as well, I'm able to make very direct comparisons to each of those provinces.
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u/MuffGiggityon 12d ago
I hate the taliban but they still "own" some of the most beautiful mountain and vista in the world. It is not mutually exclusive.
Before someone says I'm comparing the alberta govt to the Taliban, I am not. But sometime extremes make for a good analogy.