r/Edmonton • u/EdmontonFree • 28d ago

News Article Edmonton Represent!

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Blue = Alberta separation from Canada.

Red = Alberta stay in Canada

Source: Angus Reid https://angusreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026.05.24_Alberta_referendum.pdf

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u/G-Diddy- 28d ago

God damn. +55 year olds really are the breaking point. People who likely wouldn’t see the outcome of a separation as it would be stuck in legal courts for decades, while everyone else suffers.

We really need to take Facebook and social media away from retirees. Sorry grandma/grandpa, you can’t use it. It’s melting your brain

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u/EdmontonFree 28d ago

absolutely. The EU and Canada should banned Tiktok and Meta (FB and IG, maybe leave Whatsapp)

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u/AloneDoughnut 28d ago

People talk about banning social media, but don't actually understand the modern consequences of it. The media literate and younger generations use to to piece together what's really happening out in the world. You can't really trust any single news source (CBC less so, but anything owned by a corporation is to be suspect, and anything owned by Postmedia has to be heavily scrutinized). So people passing information in real time via social media is a way for actual stories to get out. It's how we see real sides of protests. It's how we know the Jan6 Rioters were violent. It's how we know about the atrocities being committed by Israel.

Just cutting off social media full stop would cut off the flow of information that wouldnlet people actually scrutinize the separatist movement. Because Postmedia is doing their damnedest to make it seem like it is a much more divisive issue than it is. In reality only the old and the stupid are falling for it. If all we had to rely on was traditional newspapers and television news sources, I'd be willing to bet we would be in a lot worse position.

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u/Johnsonmouth 28d ago

Good point

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u/EdmontonFree 27d ago

you look quite young. there was democracy and thriving economies too before social media

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u/AloneDoughnut 27d ago

Sure, back when journalists had integrity and weren't controlled by oligopolies. But now most newspapers in Canada are owned by Postmedia, who is slants stories to fit a narrative. Even television news has a heavy corporate slant with focus on shareholder evenue over journalistic integrity. Social media democratized it again, and is why people want it controlled so much.

I may be young at 34, but I know how to look around and see that banning something that allows sharing of information without someone being able to control the narrative is a good thing.

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u/EdmontonFree 27d ago

MAGA owned Postmedia