And if this is true, Albertans will stand up and take their government. Something they’ve done once in the past at least. I hope they do. Until that day however…

In 2023, half (49%) of firearm-related violent crime involved the presence of a handgun, followed by a firearm-like weapon or an unknown type of firearm (31%), a rifle or shotgun (15%) and a fully automatic or sawed-off shotgun (4.7%). In the provinces, handguns were most common in urban areas while rifles or shotguns, and firearm-like weapons or unknown types of firearms, were more common in rural areas.

Shooting was the leading cause of death among homicide victims in 2023, accounting for nearly four in ten (38%) of all homicides. More than half (56%) of all shooting homicides were caused by handguns.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2025001/article/00002-eng.htm

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced the national freeze on the sale, purchase, and transfer of handguns comes into effect. From now on, people cannot buy, sell, or transfer handguns within Canada, and they cannot bring newly acquired handguns into the country

Dated October 21, 2022

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2022/10/21/freezing-market-handguns

And thus many of those buyers moved to other Canadian cities and did the same thing as Vancouver.

It’s all a big show regardless of who is in office and people eat it up. Drama for the masses.

These assholes. They can stop making us American. We have a much different relationship with guns and American influence can fuck off out of our country and so can all you promoting it.

Zero coverage in Nova Scotia unless you are in care permanently or need care permanently. Then there is a housing supplement. I have CPP disability. The feds are responsible for my sole income. I don’t even qualify for emergency welfare because that limit is set provincially and is a yearly family income of $14,000 and my wife has an income thankfully. Our province is a shithole but the feds are no better.

I’m not saying the cons would be better. I’m saying no one is doing anything but buying votes of non disabled people by seeming to care. The federal government is the overseer of CPP. CPP is the only recourse I have as a disabled individual in my province. I qualify for no other disability payments from anyone.

But they’re not supposed to care about me or my family either according to you. Though they are those responsible for my entire income and police me heavily should I make any money outside that income or even volunteer my time somewhere. I receive an income that is less than half of what is considered extreme poverty in my province for a single individual. We are a family of five.

Disabled guy here…Liberals don’t care either. I highly doubt you would find any member of any political party at any level of government in Canada actively fighting for increases in disability payments and supports regularly. This is proven by decades of inactivity while disabled people scream into the wind.

Meanwhile some disabled people are publicly killing themselves with the use of government programs, while openly telling everyone why, instead of struggling to survive. No outcry. No rage. No nothing. From anyone. A story in the paper here and there and at a turn of the page any sympathy or even pity is gone to the next poor soul you don’t really care about.

THIS ISN’T A CONSERVATIVE ISSUE. No government is interested in helping us. Most citizens aren’t either or things would be different than they are.

Consider that you should be careful and also hope that you don’t get sick. Your life could be ruined by a simple miscalculation or even a cancer you never heard of. But there won’t be enough of you cripples to make a difference and everyone else couldn’t give a shit until it happens to them so you’re just perpetually fucked.

My wife is Albertan. We lived there for 20 years, worked, paid taxes, started a family, voted. About 10 years ago we moved to Nova Scotia, my home.

We used to be hard-working people but apparently we’re just bums now even to our own family and former friends. Fuck those albertans. They make the rest of us who actually worked hard and turned that place into something, outcasts for no reason other than their own stupidity and greed.

I hope they sink. Every last one of them.

I believe it when he puts his money where his mouth is and tells him not to come to the G7 in Kan country.

This isn’t just an Alberta problem. Canada treats it’s disabled population like less than second class citizens. Politicians and political parties would all rather us dead including the majority of the population who never once stands up for us as some of the smallest voices in Canadian society. We are living in extreme poverty through no fault of our own. Our kids are as well, adding to the increasing problem and societal burden.

We can MAID tomorrow but we aren’t permitted food, shelter, families, medicine, dental or vision care, entertainment, recreation, clothing and certainly not respect or dignity.

Former medic here. Key word…former. The head and or body job with little to no medical aftercare ain’t so great either.

Yes.

Bell purchased our local cable/internet provider within the past year. Our service is now shit. Being rural it wasn’t good in many places but now even in my wired house it’s dropping signal dozens of times a day when this was never an issue before.

Fuck bell. Fuck capitalism. Fuck corporate greed.

And the garden gets bigger. Fuck them assholes.

I haven’t been since bush Jr. My wife hasn’t been since she was a little girl. My kids have never been. We won’t be starting any time soon or likely ever again. They couldn’t pay us to go. Not to mention our lucky 13 tattoos.

We have an unheated greenhouse in a moderate Canadian climate. We get to about minus ten on the regular in winter sometimes colder. We grow all our own family greens all winter long. It’s not possible to scale this up due to sunlight without additional lighting but it’s certainly possible with some investment in infrastructure.

Us imported greens are also no longer tested as the US has fired all personnel associated to food testing. Much of our fresh food is on a reciprocal agreement that matches testing so all goods are tested prior to entry to Canada and not tested again prior to distribution. Welcome to the summer of ecoli and lysteria.

Those who are not have the same access to guns and extremely obvious reasons to buy them en masse for months now if not years. I am Canadian. I own guns as does everyone I know. Yet it’s complicated to get a gun here. Takes time and registration. I’ve been in america and been offered guns in the street. Let’s be realistic. If you all wanted to fight you would be doing so.

Read an article yesterday where schools plus was hacked and all our kids data is also now available out there. Not that a lot of it wasn’t before but damn.

Honestly it’s about time people organised enough to resist. Violence is the only way a dictator will be deposed. History has proven it well. To have a nation so tied to gun ownership and the talk and laws associated with it not immediately choosing to pick up arms is baffling.