Calgary's driving culture comes from a combination of impatience and lack of expertise. The first is probably because this is a young city full of people chasing dollars, and everyone wants everything done yesterday. The second is owing to the large number of people who move here from smaller communities. I don't expect you get a lot of experience merging and changing lanes at high speeds if you grew up in Brandon or Sherbrooke.
The single most useful thing the province could do is an education blitz on merging. Most drivers don't seem to be aware of the difference between a merge and a yield, which is why you almost never see the drivers in the lane being merged into moving left into the lane next to them - which they are obliged to by law (a merge is a merge of every lane, not just the merge lane and the single lane it's merging into).
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