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51st state? Alberta’s break-up talk with Canada gets real: ‘It’s time that we’re set free’
Premier Danielle Smith announced this week that the oil-rich province could hold its first-ever referendum on independence in ...
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 ...
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‘There is no path to separation’: Chiefs tell Alberta premier such talk is ‘insanity’
Chiefs from Treaty 6, 7 and 8 gathered in Edmonton for an emergency meeting where they were blunt in their criticism of ...
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Alberta separation could send Canada into uncharted territory, say legal experts
As separatist discontent bubbles up anew in Alberta, experts say a vote to sever ties with Canada would pitch the country ...
BC Today callers react to renewed Alberta separation talk
BC Today host Michelle Eliot and Eric Adams, a law professor at the University of Alberta, listened to what callers had to ...
Indigenous leaders warn that Alberta separation would violate treaty rights
Cameron Davies, the leader of the Republican Party of Alberta, says he wants to take First Nations with him in a separatist movement that would divorce Albertans and First Nations from Canada. Mr.
More than half of Canadians say Alberta separation should be taken seriously: poll
As Alberta lurches towards a potential referendum on seceding from Canada, a majority of Canadians think the threat of ...
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Alberta separation would send Canada into uncharted territory, say legal experts
(CBC) Bruce McIvor, a treaty law expert, said Alberta would face pushback from First Nations arguing that they would never give up their land, and that separation would violate their treaties with ...