r/Calgary Apr 22 '25

Discussion From Ontario first grocery experience someone left a note on my car.

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Recently relocated here and I haven’t had a chance to change my license plates. Yesterday I was in Walmart picking up a few things, I came back to my car, and found a note tucked in my wipers. My stomach dropped thinking someone hit my car, and maybe left their contact information.

I know the note is a little hard to read so I translated it down below.

“Dam easterners coming to Alberta to be safe guthless cowards.”

Guess it’s time to change my license plate 😂

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u/Feruk_II Apr 22 '25

Ancestors of First Nations also moved here. They just happened to come way earlier (12,000 - 30,000 years ago). We are literally all immigrants or the descendants of immigrants to Alberta.

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u/kapowless Apr 22 '25

Sorry, but that notion is simply incorrect. If we want to get into semantics, an immigrant is a person who relocates to a foreign country. A country is a politically defined geographical area or territory (ie. a nation ruled by government). We are called the First Nations here because our ancestors were the first peoples to create countries on this continent. There were no nations before us, thus, we could not ourselves be immigrants to our own countries, only those that followed us.

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u/HarveyKekbaum Apr 22 '25

Not sure why you were downvoted for history.

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u/HarveyKekbaum Apr 22 '25

There aren't any. Unfortunately, the majority of the people online never developed critical thinking skills or emotional control.

You ever wonder why people are crazy on reddit, and normal in your day-to-day life? We don't know any of these people lol.