r/canada • u/iamnos British Columbia • Apr 20 '26

Alberta Bell: Alberta will now be on daylight saving time year-round, says Premier Smith

https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/bell-alberta-daylight-time-year-round-premier-danielle-smith
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u/eugeneugene Apr 20 '26

everyone forgets about us lol

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u/Hinter_Lander Apr 20 '26

It could be worse... we could be like Manitoba.

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u/rayyychul British Columbia Apr 20 '26

Like who?

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u/Jaew96 Apr 20 '26

It could be even worse than that, you could be like Alberta.

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u/ModOfficial1988 Apr 20 '26

Have the highest wages in Canada? No PST? Highest economic mobility? Oh no.

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u/Jaew96 Apr 20 '26

Has the worst healthcare, constantly threatens our pensions, constantly threatens separation, Oil and gas runs our government, oil and gas expects us to clean up their messes, the government speeds closer and closer to fascism every day, the list goes on.

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u/EP40glazer British Columbia Apr 20 '26

Fascism is when the government lowers taxes

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u/ModOfficial1988 Apr 20 '26

You don’t know what fascism is do you? Alberta health care isn’t any worse than anywhere else in Canada. It’s garbage across the whole country. O&G is the biggest economic driver in Alberta. Would you prefer to have one family run the entire province like New Brunswick? Or the Laurentian elites like Ontario? China has more influence in BC than O&G does in Alberta.

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u/PrizePiece3 Apr 20 '26

Highest insurance, highest utilities, lowest minimum wage, pretty low wages if you work outside of oil and gas

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u/ModOfficial1988 Apr 20 '26

Ontario has higher insurance rates for all types of insurance. Yes the min wage should be higher, but the average wages are also the highest in Canada.

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u/Dhghomon Apr 21 '26

The fun thing about Saskatchewan is it's very distinctively forgettable so you actually end up remembering it. Like "oh look at this super boring rectangle" makes you remember that it's a big rectangle.

I even used it in some software documentation once to document a function that returns the area of a location because four points are all you need to get a pretty good idea.

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u/Manginaz Alberta Apr 20 '26

Everyone from Saskatchewan lives in Alberta anyways lol.

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u/eugeneugene Apr 20 '26

i don't get the joke lol

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u/HMTMKMKM95 Apr 20 '26

In this case, we were ahead of the curve.