Hmmm. I don’t generally like human interest stories, and I grew up in a redneck part of the country, and have worked at a variety of gruesome jobs–so while never working as a redneck, it sounds familiar. As usual, the title doesn’t really describe the article, but you can’t blame that on the author. At the end there was a little bit of information but beyond that it’s just autobiographical narrative.
If anyone is interested, I’ve written four articles that give an analysis of how the oil industry has damage Alberta (collectively about the same size as the “Walrus” article): https://billhulet.substack.com/p/something-impossible-just-happened https://billhulet.substack.com/p/the-social-cost-of-oil-part-one https://billhulet.substack.com/p/part-two-about-oil-and-canada https://billhulet.substack.com/p/the-resource-curse
Damn good article
An American, I wasn’t brought up to understand the divide between Alberta and some of the more visible parts of Canadian culture, economy or politics. I’ve been puzzling learning more about Alberta, their ascendent conservatism extremism over the last 5 years and trying to understand the sudden change. This brief article made me realize the “Texas” psychosis goes back decades and has laid the groundwork and produced the same sort of wealthy, entitled, selfish brood in Alberta that the US failed to stop spreading.
Going to check out the book mentioned for a more full read but excellent excerpts and TLDR for the “WTF is up with Alberta?”.
Hope you Canadians go hard on them and stamp it out, they will ruin your country too if you don’t.
I’m Southern Alberta raised, left 25 years ago for Colorado. Couldn’t pay me to move back to such a backwards province.
