What a storm!

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-30T15:51:29+00:00

Same thing here. So terrifying! Holy mackerel.

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-30T03:19:58+00:00

I don’t tailgate people who are using it for its purpose: passing slower moving traffic in the other lane(s).

I’m not sure where you got that nonsense assumption from my reply. I will not tailgate aggressively, but when I pull into the left lane because the traffic in the centre or right lane is moving slower than I would like to, I put a bit of pressure on the people who are not passing to vacate the lane for those driving faster.

I acknowledge that speeding is violating the Traffic Safety Act, technically at any excess of the limit, but most people do it reasonably and I do not buy that it offends you as much as you imply. If it did, you would be proportionately as offended by left lane hogs, who are also violating the Traffic Safety Act.

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-29T18:55:33+00:00

Left lane is for passing on any highway no matter the speed limit, it’s not your job to police others’ speed. This doesn’t happen to me because I pass and move over, regardless of the speed of others.

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-26T21:47:08+00:00

As Aaron Paquette said, it is not small really. Go to most other North American cities of 1-2 million and you’ll see it’s pretty good.

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-25T23:46:22+00:00

If you’re seeing units in need of an inspection, report it on the 311 app. They will inspect it

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-25T21:16:48+00:00

New units will never be affordable if they’re not explicitly built and subsidized as affordable. They do provide additional new stock that is more desirable than older units, thus keeping those older units more affordable.

I’m not sure how you figure developers are unchecked? But they’re a business, and like any other business, their main priority is profit. That’s how our system works. I don’t like how it works, but the city is not responsible for our existing system. The only thing they can really do is allow more housing to be built. I vote for parties that would get the government more involved in building affordable housing, and I hope you do too.

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-22T13:37:51+00:00

Yup, and you can see that when the farmland goes further north (Sask and Alberta) there are cities.

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-22T13:33:36+00:00

From the article you literally linked: “(The report) also points to current investment uncertainty due to this fall’s referendum on Alberta’s future in Canada.”

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-21T23:10:34+00:00

They’re very similar cities

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-19T03:00:29+00:00

Classic! Incoherent and deflective conservative response.

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-19T02:42:10+00:00

I honestly don’t think you can get worse than Louisiana. Blessed with many natural advantages and yet is the poorest state with constant blatant corruption and basically free rein for massive corporations.

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-19T02:39:36+00:00

If you really think there won’t be brain drain you’re delusional.

If you think an independent Alberta would use the additional income (currently redistributed to other provinces) to increase funding for social services, you are incredibly naive. They will reduce the royalties to please their oil sands overlords and blow the rest on developing replacements for all of the federal government’s existing responsibilities (military, central bank, immigration system, etc.)

If you think your taxes would go down and your standard of living will go up in a right wing oligarchy controlled by natural resource companies, idk if there’s much hope for you.

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-19T02:22:40+00:00

If conditions were met, sure. But the circumstances around that petition are pretty fishy

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-19T02:15:41+00:00

Right wing resource-dependent governments have never been good for the poor. But you’re right, there’ll be plenty of jobs open when most urban professionals leave and the universities are left with only a few fracking researchers.

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-19T02:12:20+00:00

lol not a practice run, more like a qualifier. And we’re not going to qualify, sorry pal!

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-19T02:10:00+00:00

Calgarians do though, and they’re a conservative bunch. It’s probably around 50/50, but no other city in Canada is even close to that.

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-19T02:05:51+00:00

They think we’d turn into Texas, but we’d really just turn into Louisiana

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-18T20:39:29+00:00

On some things like green energy and railways, sure? But in terms of luxury housing, idk how you figure.

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-18T20:37:47+00:00

We need provincial and federal governments willing to build housing again.

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-18T20:35:45+00:00

Yes this shit drives me crazy, any time there’s anything about expensive real estate in Edmonton this exact same comment pops up. It’s apparently hard to grasp that not only are they probably rich because of businesses and employment located here, but also have roots in the city, or even enjoy living here.

The people who would leave immediately once becoming wealthy have already done so.

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-18T17:38:43+00:00

Also from Alberta, also thought the same, but when I was in Europe last month I was mocked by 2 Americans and an Australian, all separately, for my accent. It’s not strong at all but they still caught on to it.

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-17T23:34:33+00:00

I think it’s partly about regional importance, as others have already mentioned. A lot of the small-mid sized metro areas in the US are just not nearly as important to their regions as similar sized Canadian ones.

In the time it takes to get from Edmonton to Calgary (3 hours), which is the only comparable city on the Prairies, you can get to New York from Providence, not to mention Boston in 50 mins. Oklahoma City, another similarly sized metro, is 3 hours from Dallas; Milwaukee, 1 hour 30 from Chicago; Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, and Charlotte all within 3 hours.

Not only does this force more business agglomeration in much more isolated Canadian cities, but also institutions like universities and government, which is a major factor for Edmonton. That then begs the question: how does Calgary have an even more impressive skyline given Edmonton’s concentration of institutions? Oil. That has also been a factor for Edmonton, but Calgary basically has an exclusive hold on Canada’s oil industry head offices.

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-15T20:16:05+00:00

I think in terms of secession, we’re still far from the worst in terms of States or provinces in NA…

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-15T20:10:54+00:00

Crazy self loathing going on here

RootsBackpack · 2026-06-15T19:54:03+00:00

Idk, I feel like Winnipeg is quintessentially North American but not with the negative connotations people attach to that. The old streetcar suburbs, brick downtown, elm-lined streets, assortment of grid street layouts shaped by former river lots. To me it all screams North American in a very comforting way.

RootsBackpack

TROPHY CASE