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Separatists release potential Alberta referendum question, expect Danielle Smith to join cause
An Alberta separatist group released on Monday a referendum question on independence from Canada that it will petition to get ...
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Is This Really Why Danielle Smith Wants a Separation Referendum?
According to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who describes herself as a Canadian patriot, she’s enabling a separation ...
Will Danielle Smith steer Alberta away from separation, or will this train keep gathering steam?
Premier says she wants to lower separatist sentiment. But her political base's anti-Ottawa mood is becoming an anti-Canada ...
Danielle Smith says she won't muzzle UCP caucus as referendum talk heats up
Smith told reporters on Tuesday that she wasn’t bothered by UCP MLA Jason Stephan publicly calling for a referendum on ...
Smith says sovereignty referendum provides 'outlet' to avoid creation of new party
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she's willing to risk a separation referendum in part to avert the emergence of a ...
Why do some Albertans want to separate? Committed, curious pack Calgary banquet hall
A crowd of roughly 1,000 turned out Monday for a town hall on separatism organized by the Alberta Prosperity Project. CBC ...
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What do Albertans think of prospect of separation referendum?
Row after row of Canadian flags fly high atop tall poles over manicured lawns in a southern Alberta town that's also home to ...
Calgary Herald on MSN1d
Alberta separatist group releases proposed referendum question, plans to push for vote this year
An Alberta separatist group has released a proposed referendum question on sovereignty from Canada, saying they will push the ...
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Braid: Smith admits referendum is an 'outlet' to keep new parties from splitting UCP
A new separatist party would obviously bleed support from the UCP. Current Angus Reid polling shows that 65 per cent of UCP ...
First Nations criticism of Danielle Smith goes national
The national advocacy organization for Treaty First Nations has joined the chorus of First Nations telling Alberta premier Danielle Smith that a referendum on Alberta independence would be ...
What, exactly, are Alberta separatists mad about?
Threats of Alberta separation go back decades, and have reached new heights since the April election of Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney. Why do some Albertans feel they're being treated so unfairly ...
PQ leader cheers on possible referendum in Alberta
The leader of the sovereignist Parti Québécois is throwing his support behind a possible referendum in Alberta, applauding ...