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Majority of party members likely to back Alberta separation, UCP president says

The president of Alberta’s governing United Conservative Party says he believes that a majority of UCP members will vote against remaining in Canada in a referendum this fall, despite Premier Danielle Smith’s campaign in favour of Confederation.

Rob Smith, who heads the UCP’s board of directors, said the party will not pick a side in the lead-up to the separation vote, in which Albertans will decide if the province should stay in Canada, or if it should start the legal process to hold a second, binding vote on secession.

by Blazingcatfur•May 26, 2026May 26, 2026•0•Alberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Majority of Albertans would vote to stay in Canada, find Smith’s handling poor says government polling company and CBC

As an October referendum on the future of Alberta separation looms, new polling finds three in five Albertans say they would vote to stay in Canada, while more than half of Albertans feel Premier Danielle Smith has handled the issue “poorly.”

On Thursday, Smith announced she is planning to put a question on the fall referendum ballot that will ask Albertans if they want the province to remain in Canada or if they want a future binding referendum on separation.

According to a poll from the Angus Reid Institute released Monday, 60 per cent of respondents would vote no to the official referendum question, compared to 35 per cent who would vote yes.

by Blazingcatfur•May 26, 2026May 26, 2026•0•Alberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

MACLEOD: Alberta can’t survive five years of globalist Carney’s centralized control

Mark Carney is not some accidental politician who wandered into Ottawa from Bay Street. He is a product of the modern global financial establishment. Former governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, long-time participant at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, and a prominent voice in global climate finance and centralized economic coordination, Carney has spent nearly two decades operating inside elite international circles.

by Blazingcatfur•May 26, 2026May 25, 2026•0•Alberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Carney warns that push for Alberta separatism referendum could be ‘dangerous bluff’

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney warned that Alberta separatists who think a referendum will provide the province more leverage are risking a “very dangerous bluff” and argued that it is “not helpful” to ask people to vote over secession.

Speaking to reporters from a residential construction site in Ottawa, Carney had a stark warning for Albertans ahead of Smith’s referendum question on provincial sovereignty in the fall: be wary of what you’re voting for.

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 25, 2026•0•Alberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Echoes of Brexit as Alberta blunders towards vote on separation from Canada

An embattled leader forced to call a referendum on separation to ward off mutiny – and then pledging to campaign against it. Allegations that prosperity had been stolen by distant elites and could be remedied with a vote to leave. Mutterings of foreign interference.

by Blazingcatfur•May 25, 2026May 25, 2026•0•Alberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Conrad Black: Canada better hope Alberta doesn’t leave with its wealth

It is painful to reflect on this, but I think we are disserving ourselves if we do not recognize how absurd this country appears to many well-disposed and intelligent foreign onlookers. We are now seen as the most absurdly woke and politically correct (and therefore foolish) country in the world, and the country with the highest suicide rate in the world because our crumbling health-care system now champions the virtues of early death, as well as being one of the most unsafe advanced countries for Jews to live in, because of widespread antisemitic bigotry.

by Blazingcatfur•May 24, 2026May 24, 2026•0•"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Alberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Is Canada about to break apart?

Alberta is about to decide whether it wants to stay in Canada or take steps to become an independent nation.

The provincial premier, Danielle Smith, recently announced that Alberta will hold a referendum to determine its future in Canada. The question to be asked will be: “Should Alberta remain a province of Canada or should the government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?”

by Blazingcatfur•May 24, 2026May 23, 2026•0•"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Alberta

Danielle Smith tries to blame 700,000 illusory Albertans for her separatism gambit

Let’s say you live in a house with your family of four, and one day, three angry-looking characters bang on your front door and tell you they’re going to burn down your house. Everyone in your family is horrified and incensed, of course, and you yell at the trio of arsonists to get off your porch while your spouse calls the police.

Now, some math: In this scenario, do you have three people who want to burn down a house? Or do you have seven people demanding a robust debate about whether it should be burned to the ground?

by Blazingcatfur•May 23, 2026May 23, 2026•0•Alberta

What comes next as Alberta plans vote on separation

The western Canadian province of Alberta will ask its citizens this October whether they want to remain part of Canada or kick-start the process of holding a binding referendum on separation, marking a major test of the country’s unity, the first in decades.

Alberta’s leader, Premier Danielle Smith, announced the coming vote on 21 May in a televised address.

She said she herself supports a unified Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•May 23, 2026May 23, 2026•0•Alberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Alberta independence leaders offer differing reactions to Smith’s referendum to hold a referendum question

EDMONTON — Influential Alberta independence advocates offered differing reactions to Premier Danielle Smith’s October referendum question on Alberta remaining in Canada, as the UCP faces an internal struggle among party members.

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

Alberta essential to plans to build a better Canada, Carney says in wake of Danielle Smith’s referendum gambit

OTTAWA—In a measured and conciliatory message to Alberta, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday that he is working to make Canada “better” after the province’s premier revealed she will stage a vote that could trigger a historic separation referendum and set off a potential threat to national unity unseen in a generation.

Appearing in the 19th-century parliamentary library during a tour of ongoing renovations to the Centre Block, Carney cited former prime ministers Joe Clark, Stephen Harper, and other Alberta politicians who made “huge contributions” in Canada’s Parliament and other areas of national life.

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2026May 22, 2026•0•Alberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Alberta to hold fall referendum on whether to have binding referendum on separating from Canada

Premier Danielle Smith says Albertans will be able to vote in the fall on whether they want the province to hold a binding referendum on separating from Canada.

In a pre-recorded speech broadcast Thursday evening, Smith said a question will be added to a provincewide referendum in October that will ask, “Should Alberta remain a province of Canada or should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?”

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2026May 22, 2026•0•Alberta

KAPLAN: Alberta’s carbon tax shock — why Carney-Smith’s net zero pact may backfire on the oil sands

The misguided decision by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to accept Ottawa’s demands to increase the province’s effective industrial carbon tax to $130 per tonne by 2040 will impose an estimated additional $33 billion in cumulative carbon costs (an average of $1.26 per barrel across all oil sands production) on the oil sands sector between 2030 and 2040.

by Blazingcatfur•May 20, 2026May 20, 2026•0•Alberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Danielle Smith’s support for separation threatens proposed oil pipeline

Is Alberta premier Danielle Smith’s strategy for getting a bitumen pipeline to B.C.’s northwest coast about to reach its breaking point?

Sure, she’s got two Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) with Prime Minister Mark Carney that pave the way for the pipeline but there’s still a lot of terrain to cover before it becomes a reality. And the thing that could hold it up is her persistent support for a separation referendum that will likely be held in October.

by Blazingcatfur•May 20, 2026May 20, 2026•0•Alberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

‘It was predictable’: Court ruling doesn’t slow this Alberta separatist

A court has struck down one Alberta independence petition,” says Keith Wilson, the St. Albert lawyer and advocate for Alberta’s separation from Canada. “This does not mean the referendum is over.”

“The legal path to an Alberta independence referendum remains open,” he declares on his YouTube channel, “and Alberta’s cabinet still has the authority to put the question to voters in October.”

by Blazingcatfur•May 17, 2026May 17, 2026•0•"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Alberta, Canada