Alberta – Blazingcatfur

Two months to go: Inside Alberta separatists’ campaign

Alberta’s independence referendum is now just two months away, with nothing less than the future of the country at stake, so I wanted to check back in with one of the more thoughtful separatist leaders.

I remain one of those flag-waving, Canada-first Albertans who intends to vote Option 1 on Oct. 19 — that Alberta should remain a province of Canada. Yet because of voices like Keith Wilson’s, who advocates Option 2 (that the Alberta government commence the legal process required under the Constitution to hold a binding referendum on secession), I am far from complacent about the outcome.

by Blazingcatfur•August 24, 2026August 24, 2026•0•Alberta

Smith says Alberta could have a binding referendum on secession in early 2027

Alberta will hold a binding referendum on secession early next year if the results of October’s provincewide vote favour launching the process to separate from the rest of Canada, Premier Danielle Smith asserted during town halls this summer.

The Premier’s timeline allocates about 2.5 months for consultations with Indigenous people, a window she said aligns with what Canada pencilled in for discussions over a proposed bitumen pipeline to the west coast.

by Blazingcatfur•August 23, 2026August 22, 2026•0•Alberta

With 60 days left until Alberta’s referendum, stay and leave sides plot their course

Only 60 days remain until Albertans answer 10 questions that could shape the future of the province.

Nine focus on immigration and constitutional reform. But it’s the 10th question — whether Albertans want the province to remain in Canada or hold a second, binding referendum on separation — that is increasingly poised to animate town halls and rallies scheduled in the coming days.

by Blazingcatfur•August 21, 2026August 20, 2026•0•"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Alberta, Canada

Russian, U.S. interests are targeting Alberta’s separatist debate, Canadian research shows

Canadian researchers using artificial intelligence to track foreign interest in the Alberta separatism debate have found the province’s political discourse is being targeted online by Russian and American interests in both overt and covert ways.

The first data from a study that began last month indicate Russian content farms have been pushing pro-separatist content into online communities and using Canadians to “launder” those messages by sharing such material on their social media feeds, the researchers said.

by Blazingcatfur•August 17, 2026August 17, 2026•0•"Foreign Interference", Alberta, Russia, USA

A mysterious cash surge for Alberta’s separatist party is tied to out-of-province donors

In the spring of 2025, the separatist Republican Party of Alberta seemed to be making a push.

Months before a revival of separatist sentiment would put provincial politics in a headlock, the fledgling party released a five-point plan for Alberta independence, sent doorknockers into neighbourhoods and announced its new leader would run in a June byelection for a chance at a seat in the legislature.

by Blazingcatfur•August 11, 2026August 10, 2026•0•Alberta

An independent Alberta’s U.S. oil exports would mostly be piped through other provinces

In some Alberta separatists’ arguments, their big idea isn’t so much about severing the province from Canada. The goal is to fortify trade bonds with Alberta’s southern neighbour.

“We sit beside the largest economy in the world, with the shortest and lowest-cost trade routes to our most important customer,” independence leader Keith Wilson said in a social media post last week. “The problem is not geography. The problem is Ottawa control.”

by Blazingcatfur•August 4, 2026August 4, 2026•0•Alberta

MACLEOD: The case for voting ‘Yes’ in Alberta referendum — even if you’re undecided

Most Albertans are too busy working, paying the bills, driving kids to practice, and discovering that an ordinary trip to the grocery store can now resemble a major capital expense. They do not spend their evenings reading court judgments or federal transfer tables.

They have good reason not to follow every quarrel between Edmonton and Ottawa. But Question 10 on the October 19 Provincial referendum deserves their attention.

by Blazingcatfur•July 30, 2026July 30, 2026•0•"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Alberta

Alberta’s pro-Canada movement just got a gift from Donald Trump

Alberta’s federalists have a key asset on their side: U.S. President Donald Trump.

Generally speaking, the wind’s already behind them: If you believe the opinion polling, the separatists are in for a fairly epic defeat in October in Premier Danielle Smith’s referendum about secession.

by Blazingcatfur•July 25, 2026July 25, 2026•0•Alberta

What some immigrants could lose if Alberta votes yes to Danielle Smith’s questions

If Albertans vote yes to the five immigration questions on this fall’s referendum, many of Alberta’s 260,000 temporary workers and other non-permanent residents could lose their health and education coverage — while all the rest could have to pay access fees on top of the taxes they pay.

When it comes to the most prominent question on Alberta’s Oct. 19 ballot, Premier Danielle Smith has said she is against separating. But she endorses and has vowed to campaign for the other nine questions she’s put to Albertans on immigration and constitutional reform.

She’s pitched them as a third-way option for supporters to express frustration with Ottawa without going as far as endorsing secession.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2026July 19, 2026•0•"Liberal Party Criminal Abuse Of Immigration Policy For Private & Political Gain", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Alberta

Immigration is on the ballot. Here’s what some of Alberta’s multicultural communities say about the referendum

Heading into Alberta’s upcoming referendum, the question on Alberta independence easily gets the most attention.

But 10 questions are on the ballot this October, five of which concern immigration — something that has been overshadowed since the separation question was announced in May.

To find out more about how Calgary’s multicultural communities feel about these proposals, CBC News collaborated with several local ethnic media organizations for a roundtable discussion at a southside library.

by Blazingcatfur•July 15, 2026July 14, 2026•0•Alberta

Nearly 80 per cent of Canada’s past year job gains were in one province: Alberta

Alberta is home to roughly 12 per cent of Canada’s population, but it accounted for close to 80 per cent of all the jobs the national economy created in the past year, according to Statistics Canada.

Alberta added nearly 80,000 jobs in the past 12 months, while all of Canada added 99,000, the national agency said in its latest jobs report.

Alberta’s total looms large partly because it kept hiring while some of the country’s biggest provinces shed workers.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 13, 2026•0•Alberta

A unilateral declaration of independence and the 51st State? Ottawa’s Clarity Act could push Alberta there

On a mild though grey winter’s day just before Christmas, citizens of the Yugoslav Socialist Republic of Slovenia voted 95.7% in favour of becoming independent. Six months later, after negotiations regarding a looser “confederal” arrangement with their Serbian overlords in Belgrade broke down, the Slovenian Parliament issued a unilateral declaration of independence (UDI).

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 13, 2026•0•"Western Independence", Alberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

At competing Stampede breakfasts, 2 very different visions for Alberta emerge

It may have been the final day of the 10-day Calgary Stampede exhibition and rodeo, but two pancake breakfasts held simultaneously Sunday morning made clear the battle for the hearts and minds of Albertans is just ramping up.

At Ranchman’s Cookhouse and Dancehall, one of Calgary’s most well-known western bars, the pro-independence group Let Alberta Decide hosted a pancake breakfast, drawing hundreds. One man wore a shirt that read “Alberta First. Ottawa Last,” before grabbing a plate of eggs, sausages, pancakes and fruit.

by Blazingcatfur•July 13, 2026July 12, 2026•0•Alberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

At Canada’s biggest rodeo, the starting gun is fired in the fight over Alberta separation

Over a million people descend on the Calgary Stampede every year to marvel at the iconic chuckwagon race, a sport invented in the Albertan city where carriage drivers race teams of horses around the track to the sound of pounding hooves, or be amazed by the speed of bareback riders racing in First Nations horse relays.

The ‘Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth’ is the marquee event on Alberta’s summer calendar, a distinctly western Canadian spectacle where political leaders also have to test their mettle, judged on the quality of their pancake flips at community Stampede breakfasts and their ability to pull off a cowboy hat.

by Blazingcatfur•July 11, 2026July 11, 2026•0•"Western Alienation Separation", Alberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Andrew Percy: Canadians who care about Alberta should fear Project Fear

The 10 year anniversary in late June of the British public voting to leave the European Union in the Brexit referendum received considerable coverage in Canada, not least because of the forthcoming Alberta separatism referendum.

Canadians were treated to a stream of reports of apparent regret by the majority of the British public and commentators from the U.K., who never voted for and never accepted leaving the EU, spouting all sorts of nonsense about the apparent economic impacts of Brexit on the U.K. economy.

by Blazingcatfur•July 7, 2026July 6, 2026•0•"Western Alienation Separation", Alberta