@davidaugust

Up here at Lat 53°N I've always relied on our long summer days to recharge from our long winter nights.

Now that every spring and summer is #FireSeason across the #prairies, along with repeated extreme #heat events, winter's passing leaves me deeply anxious.

Little things like adding tiny Xmas lights in rooms darkened to block the heat help lift spirits, but choking and gasping from what seems more #smoke than #air is a misery I wish on no one.

@Canadian_Eh

so cute!

I am originally from the USA, on the northern edge of their #prairies. There are two prairie questions from my rural upbringing I would love to know about #Canada's prairies:

* With few/no large carnivores, sprawling urban ctrs, & extensive field crops, deer are overbreeding. Is this an issue in the prairie Provinces?

* Avid hunters breed and release prey, such as pheasants, by the millions annually. This has heavily displacced the prairie chickens. Issue here?

@causeburn

Western alienation is real, and is to a great degree justified. Note: I'm not a separatist or anything, I'm not partisan (no Canadian party represents my views), I just live in the prairies and have a front-seat view.

The issues that cause this #alienation are longstanding. This didn't just arise because of Trudeau, or even just because of the last generation of governments. It goes back further than that. The west sees many reasons to believe (rightly or wrongly) that they get short shrift from the federal #government.

One recent example: Ottawa saw a threat to Canadian auto workers (southern Ontario only, natch) in desirable Chinese electric vehicles that have taken much of the world by storm. So Ottawa slapped a 100% #tariff on Chinese electric vehicles. It's not only the US that can play stupid games.

The #stupid prize they won is a 100% #tariff by China on the import of Canadian canola oil and #canola meal. This is a hugely important cash crop all across the prairies, and China represented farmers' biggest #market. This tariff has decimated that income. Farmers are hurting because of it, and the prairie provinces' economies are still significantly tied to #agriculture.

Ottawa basically doesn't care. Have to protect Ontario jobs. Eastern farmers aren't affected. Why do anything to help prairie #farmers and provinces?

Note this is just one example. There are many, in all areas of society, politics, and economics.

@splann Dans les fonds de vallées des petites rivières les scénarios #haies bocagères, #prairies permanentes #elevage sont encore en place ,alors commençons par les préserver pour garantir la qualité de l'eau.

@fsinn

Note that we here on the #prairies are used to the major networks having already called the election before our polls close. It happens more often than not.

Before news orgs joined the internet, the local Canadian TV stations would keep non-news programs on until polls closed locally, then switch over to the national feed where election results were being monitored, and it would normally be "CBC has declared a majority <party> government" from the moment that happened.