Getting very weary and trying as best as I can to tame the anger impulse, as I keep hearing people say that the toxicity in #alberta is all about Covid or it's all about the penchant for individualism, or the geography- Urban/Suburban vs Rural. These excuses are inexcusable.

The atmosphere in Alberta is toxic because of the ugliest kind of politics practiced by those who have deliberately pitted Albertans against each other. Toxicity is generated alternative media entrepreneurs on social media platforms, pumping their poison all day and all night.

The toxicity in Alberta isn't natural. The history of Alberta shows the best in "love thy neighbour" especially in times of crisis. No amount of wildfires, floods and other natural disasters have failed to inspire Kindness, Compassion, Community & Unity.

The Alberta I came to know in 1974 when I first lived there and 1989 when I returned and 2001 when I returned again, was never naturally toxic. Quite the opposite. It was naturally cleansing, and healing. Todays toxicity is grotesquely unnatural. It is manufactured madness.