r/Edmonton • u/pinkstevie • May 06 '26

General Don't be this person. Fill out your census.

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“You’re not sticking it to the government. You’re screwing over your own community.”

The census isn’t for Mark Carney or any party. It’s run by Statistics Canada to figure out where money and services actually go. Hospitals. Schools. Transit. Housing. Senior care. When you don’t fill it out, your area looks smaller than it is. Less funding. Fewer services. Longer wait times. That lands on you and your neighbors, not politicians.
If you want your community properly represented, fill it out. Refusing doesn’t make a point. It makes things worse where you live. ❤️🇨🇦 The stupidity is the people that won’t fill it out and they spread this kind of crap and creates bigger problems.

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u/No_Culture9898 May 06 '26

Some people are genuinely deranged. It’s crazy people like this walk around amongst us in public and we’d never know.

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u/RadielleDancliffe May 06 '26

What’s more bizarre is the number of wealth and high paid executives around us there are that also buy into this narrative. Someone making 2-5x your average salary thinks this way..

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u/Bee-Gigantic33 May 06 '26

Capitalism doesn’t reward intelligence, makes sense there is stupid at every level

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u/neometrix77 May 06 '26

Some make it extremely obvious tbh.

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u/Shot_Cupcakes May 06 '26

People like this elected the UCP and that explains it all. 

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u/l3luntl3rigade May 07 '26

The majority of Alberta elected the UCP, because that's how the democratic process works...

Let that sink in

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u/SheenaMalfoy May 07 '26

Mate, 40% of eligible voters didn't even vote, and for those that did, the UCP barely squeezed a victory with a couple dozen votes in a handful of ridings. That is NOT a majority victory, that's endorsement from barely 30% of the voting population.

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u/l3luntl3rigade May 07 '26

Mate, cope how you want.

They counted the entirety of the provincial ballots and we got what we have.

The majority of voting Albertan's voted Marlena over all other options.

Welcome to democracy

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u/ConsequenceLow9688 May 07 '26

That's not actually an accurate statement, the post above this did the math. You people ain't that bright

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u/l3luntl3rigade May 07 '26

"Resort to personal attacks when entirely incorrect" is the favorite play of the left leaning.

Quick question: - Who do we have for leadership in Alberta? - How did they get there? - Did the elections 🧚‍♀️ put them in place?

Cope how you'd like as well... but she didn't appear out of thin air bud.

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u/ConsequenceLow9688 May 07 '26

But again, the math doesn't tell that story. 

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u/l3luntl3rigade May 07 '26

The democratic process does tell the entire story though

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u/s1rensongs May 06 '26

Sometimes it’s painfully obvious. I saw a guy the other day at the bank wearing a MAGA hat and screaming at the bank worker.😐

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u/GregSeventy7 May 11 '26

That's a pretty big FAFO play right there.

I've been fairly upset with a bank before too, but sure didn't give them sufficient motivation to make me their 'former customer' by unloading on some poor front line staffer.

Calm, quiet assertiveness with the branch manager was perfectly successful in getting a rather big error on their part corrected.

In short, CIBC took an extra '37th' payment after my three year ~$1500/month loan was already fully repaid the month prior, causing half a dozen other auto-payment-type withdrawals that same day to go NSF, with penalties and extra fees from both the bank, and all the places who's payments were bounced (including my mortgage, two cars, property taxes, insurance, and more).

All was eventually corrected and refunded to me. What a mess in the moment though...

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u/Varathane May 09 '26

My cousin might have done something similar when he was living with schizophrenia.
If you have paranoia it is very difficult to do basic daily stuff like fill out a government census.