Near the end of September, a series of videos were posted to social media that purported to show some familiar figures in Calgary’s political and legal worlds taking turns performing racist Indigenous caricatures. They would later claim those videos were fake. Experts say claims of falsity in situations like this are hard to prove because the technology is debatable, even unreliable and hints at a more significant problem to come.
The 10-day festival celebrating the cowboy way of life has attracted all federal leaders, who often take on the persona of duelling gunslingers looking for votes in a game of political one-upmanship.