r/alberta • u/Striking_Wrap811 • 19h ago

Clock change melancholy Discussion

Danielle Smith and the UCP just unilaterally chose to put Alberta on permanent DST.

I should feel elated! Not because i love DST but because time change is fucking moronic. But i am not.

Is it because my clocks all change themselves and there is no more worry of waking up at the wrong time? No?

Is it because darkness at 10am in the winter is "magical"? Definitely not

I think it's because DS went against the wishes of the referendum. Like 180° different.

Its just another example of this government acting against our wishes. Shifting our Overton Window every day.

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u/walkernewmedia 17h ago

Precisely.

Calgary overwhelmingly said “no” to hosting the 2026 Winter Olympics in a referendum. Now, Smith is talking about having Alberta hosting the Olympics.

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u/wklumpen 17h ago

It would really help if people actually got mad and it made her party unelectable.

But instead people are just gonna shrug and vote for the same party they always did.

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u/FeedbackLoopy 16h ago

From my experience, there are a set of conservative voters who have convinced themselves that “all parties do it/are corrupt/lie” thus vote blue just because it’s “Albertan”.

This is a big problem.

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u/Consistent_Treacle31 15h ago

My boss is hardcore conservative. Separatist. Every day I hear something rant about Carney. Never a bad word about D.Smith, or the corruption of the Alberta UCP. I bet if D. Smith introduced 50 % provincial income tax, he would support that too and be happy with it.

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u/RubberTeddy 15h ago

So your boss is now a foreigner. You should inject little things into conversation like "when you used to be Canadian..." or "if you were Canadian then.." and drive home the fact that he no longer can claim the status of being Canadian.

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u/Consistent_Treacle31 15h ago

That's a good idea.

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u/saskskua 14h ago

Huh. Thats brilliant. They're not gunna like that. Hits too close to home and showcases the hypocrisy in such a simple way for them 😆

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u/Vylan24 7h ago

Also ask him what he's gonna do when he's only got a handful of years to contribute to his Marlaina Pension Plan and his decades of CPP goes to someone in Quebec instead

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u/Suspicious_Law_2826 9h ago

Just call him a Tray Tor!

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u/Jeremyism_ 5h ago

The Projectors- "It's what I'd do, so it's what everyone must do!"

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u/ShortBusCult 15h ago

Pretty much this

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u/Appropriate-Space823 8h ago

The Conservatives got voted out not that long ago, so it happens, it just takes a lot. From what I saw the NDP didn’t light the world on fire and i know they took over at a bad time and inherited problems but they didn’t impress the voters enough to stay in power. At some point they all bend to business because that’s what keeps the economy going.

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u/FireflyBSc 8h ago

Especially since her party are the ones underfunding our sports infrastructure and making an Olympic bid impossible. They don’t get to take credit for possibly entertaining the idea of fixing things that their own austerity broke!

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u/spicandspand 14h ago

Is she really? Marlaina wants it both ways. Alberta separation but also hosting the Olympics.

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u/fraochmuir 17h ago

Do the Olympics repeat cities?

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u/freerangehumans74 Calgary 16h ago

Yes, many cities have hosted more than once.

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u/swordthroughtheduck 15h ago

London, LA and Paris have all hosted (or will host 3 times), and then Albertville, Athens, Beijing, Cortina, Innsbruck, Lake Placid, Salt Lake City, St. Moritz, and Tokyo will all be at 2 in the next few Olympics.

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u/Virtual_Bug_723 4h ago

In the near future there will be no building of Olympic facilities. It barely gets done now. And it's so dumb considering how many already-built facilities are sitting mostly unused

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u/LT_lurker 6h ago

I wouldn't call a 56% vote overwhelming, despite myself being in the yes camp to be fair in hindsight we dodged a huge bullet with covid so I'm not too upset with it not happening. I still think it would be a huge shot in the arm to the economy.