American Bemused by Calgary's Interest in Election

Hockey, oil and more than likely, snow.

Perhaps boasting about the health care system? Possibly the mating habits of moose?

If there’s one thing Jonathan Jacobs didn’t expect Canadians to be buzzing about, it was the presidential election back home in America.

It’s a political contest his new friends and co-workers in Calgary, Alberta can’t even affect with a ballot, and yet it’s all anybody seems to be talking about – to the point that even the NHL, Trudeau and The Tragically Hip have taken a back seat to Tuesday’s showdown between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

“I’m not about trying to convince people what I believe, and most of what I want to do is listen, and I think that’s one of the things that’s been lost in this election,” says Jacobs, the former student association president at Michigan’s Andrews University.

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