wabigoon;
Good afternoon to you sir - still morning here in BC - but in any case I hope all is well with you and your fine family, whichever side of the medicine line this finds you on.
My good wife and one of our daughters used to watch it - maybe both daughters actually now that I think of it - and they enjoyed it.
It's set on an Alberta dude ranch and tries to mix in enough rural and oil patch content to be remotely authentic. A few of the actors are Albertans too, which doesn't hurt, but in my view it's not as gritty as one finds a typical interaction in Wild Rose country to be.
Now that said, the oil patch crew, well and some of the Alberta rancher crew too for that matter, would engage in stories and vocabulary which would prevent prime time, family viewing, but I digress....
Oh to my many good friends and family in Alberta - my own sainted Mom was born and raised out of Etzikom and my Grandpa ranged his cattle on Forty Mile Coulee - so by lineage I'm kinda/sorta Albertan too one could say. But no offense is meant in any way to all the Albertan family and friends with my thoughts on the matter. They are just that and nothing more.
Anyway wabigoon, there's surely worse stuff to watch on Canuck TV than Heartland so I'm glad to hear your good wife enjoys it.
All the best to you all as we head into the fall in earnest.
Dwayne
