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by f2f 2299 days ago
what are you talking about? we all got rich from all that Klein Money in 2008. still reverberating in the economy as we collectively decided not to buy booze and steak and instead invested them all /s
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The most adorable part is I remember the era of, "A Tim Horton's employee in Alberta gets paid HOW MUCH ?!" And now I'm living through the super butt hurt whining about an Alberta Brexit because they're not getting enough of a break by the federal government.
maybe if it wasn't all spent on jacked-up F-350 pickup trucks, overly expensive large houses, snowmobiles and toys...
Beat me to it. I recall CBC articles about all of the abandoned trucks at the Edmonton and Calgary airports as oil workers decided to split.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-internation...