Even the Globe and Mail has come around to criticizing the Laurentian oppressor

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In Monday’s edition of the inferior national newspaper, John Ibbitson defends the thesis that “Central Canadian elites are as much to blame for Alberta’s separatist movement as anyone else.” It wouldn’t be tactically smart for an Albertan to go after Ibbitson for the way he goes about this, but I have to admit I had the exact same reaction as I did in that Simpsons episode where Bart cruelly catfishes his teacher, Mrs. Krabappel. When he sees her weeping in a restaurant, utterly undone by his prank, he utters the immortal line “I can’t help but feel partly responsible.”

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