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John Ivison: MAGA has its sights on Alberta

Steve Bannon is in the ratings business these days, so he can say outrageous things with impunity.

On his influential War Room podcast last week, he talked about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s “kowtowing” visit to China and said: “Let me be blunt, you are playing with fire. You will rue the day you did that. President (Donald) Trump is not just going to let the Chinese Communist Party become an active strategic partner up there. It’s not going to happen.”

Ivison is an Elbow person pass it on.

Canada was a good country.

Now it’s just an ATM for an elite that seeks to criminalize citizens for simply being.

by Blazingcatfur•January 20, 2026January 19, 2026•0•Alberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

ALBERS: Something big is beginning to grow in Alberta independence movement

It was an ordinary Saturday night in my hometown of Calgary. Nothing about the evening announced itself as historic. No banners. No blaring slogans. Just a community hall, a few speakers, and a petition on a table.

I had invited my wife, of decidedly unpolitical temperament, to join me at the Queensland Community Hall to hear speakers on Alberta independence and to add our names to the referendum petition. Full disclosure: I had already signed on as a canvasser. My wife, who had never attended anything remotely like this before, agreed simply to come along and sign.

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by Blazingcatfur•January 16, 2026January 16, 2026•0•"Western Alienation Separation", Alberta

Inside the Independence Movement in Canada’s Oil-Rich Alberta

CALGARY/DIDSBURY, Canada—The Canadian province of Alberta is known for its oil rigs, cowboys, cattle runs, and strong traditions. Like Texas, these features have shaped Alberta’s unique history and culture.

Here, endless prairies roll toward the rugged Rockies, and a spirit of resilience pulses through both the land and its people, fueling a desire for more autonomy from the federal government.

Some Albertans want to go further by holding a public referendum on making Alberta independent from Canada. A petition question on separation was approved under the province’s new laws earlier this year.

by Blazingcatfur•January 14, 2026January 14, 2026•0•"Western Alienation Separation", Alberta, Canada

A referendum in Alberta could be Donald Trump’s 51st state opportunity

The Brexit referendum was supposed to succeed by failing. Things did not go according to plan.

There’s a lesson here for Alberta and Canada, as the province heads for a likely Albexit independence referendum later this year.

But before we talk about the future, let’s revisit an unhappy past.

The MSM believes they control the narrative in Canada

Despite not one article or news story, Albertans line up in the cold of night across our great Province to sign a petition for Independence

The Laurentians are scared#AlbertaSeparation https://t.co/V6N21SsXPs

— Alberta Separation (@albertaseparate) January 12, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•January 14, 2026January 14, 2026•0•"Western Alienation Separation", Alberta

J.D. Tuccille: Alberta has more economic freedom than any province, but lags behind 29 U.S. states

Freedom is the right to make your own decisions and guide your life as you please (for good or ill) in the absence of outside interference — in particular, without government meddling. Freedom applies in different areas of life, and we know that economic freedom leads to better outcomes including higher income, lower unemployment, reduced poverty, and greater overall wellbeing. So, Albertans should be proud that their province was recently ranked as the economically freest in Canada. Unfortunately, that only puts it in 30th place among the provinces and states of Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.

by Blazingcatfur•January 14, 2026January 13, 2026•0•Alberta, Canada

New poll suggests one in five Albertans would vote to separate

Although Alberta separatists are organizing for an independence referendum and say they’re gaining momentum, a new poll released Friday suggested that only one-fifth of Alberta respondents would vote to separate.

The Pollara Strategic Insights survey found that 19 per cent of the 1,000 Albertans surveyed say they would vote for separation, and 75 per cent would vote against it.

by Blazingcatfur•January 11, 2026January 11, 2026•0•"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Alberta, Canada

Smith demands Carney approve pipeline by fall

Premier Danielle Smith told Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday that, in light of the United States’ actions in Venezuela, her government plans to submit an application for a new British Columbia pipeline by June, and expects that his government will approve it by the fall.

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by Blazingcatfur•January 10, 2026January 9, 2026•0•Alberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Alberta’s independence movement is a global rarity: right-wing separatists

OTTAWA — Referendum talk is heating up in both Quebec and Alberta to start the year, but the pro-independence talk is coming from opposite sides of the political spectrum.

While the (mostly) centre-left Parti Québécois and democratic socialist Québec Solidaire have long fronted Quebec’s separatist movement, Alberta separatism is an almost entirely right-wing phenomenon.

by Blazingcatfur•January 8, 2026January 7, 2026•0•Alberta, Canada

JEANES: Fearmongering from the propaganda wing of Canada’s federal government

Uh-oh… Someone from Ottawa must have had a word with National Post mucky mucks last April about the money they receive from the federal government.

It probably went something like this: “Hi guys! Did you get our check? Would you like to get next month’s too? Then how about publishing an editorial on what a bad idea Alberta independence is. You’re welcome. No need to thank us.”

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by Blazingcatfur•December 29, 2025December 28, 2025•0•Alberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Braid: Alberta will vote on separation in 2026. If it passes, where will Smith stand?

Alberta politics became ever more divisive and emotional this year, with a string of controversies over trans rights, the teachers’ strike, use of the notwithstanding clause, and much more.

But 2025 might look tame by the end of 2026.

by Blazingcatfur•December 28, 2025December 28, 2025•0•"Western Independence", Alberta

GUNTER: Eby’s anti-oil stance could force Washington State pipeline route

How’s this for a win-win deal? Alberta lets Premier David Eby, his B.C. NDP government and radical, anti-development First Nations group live in their little “green” bubble west of the Rockies while Alberta finds an investor or investors to build a pipeline to the West Coast through Montana, Idaho and Washington state.

by Blazingcatfur•December 21, 2025December 20, 2025•0•Alberta, BC, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause to pass bill offering protections from so called “gender affirming care”

Alberta’s governing United Conservatives stayed up into the early pre-dawn hours of Wednesday morning to pass a bill that marks the fourth time in under two months they have used the Charter’s notwithstanding clause.

Members of Premier Danielle Smith’s caucus used their majority to pass on third and final reading a bill affecting transgender citizens.

by Blazingcatfur•December 11, 2025December 10, 2025•0•Alberta, Big Tranny

Mark Carney and Danielle Smith may be in for more hassle than they bargained for

Danielle Smith was flying high last Thursday as she and Mark Carney signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in Calgary. Interesting that it was called an MOU and not an agreement, although most of the news media, and Smith herself, talked about it in those terms.

So now Carney and Smith have an “understanding” that an oil pipeline may be built from Alberta to the northwest coast of B.C. despite the oil tanker ban and B.C. premier David Eby’s objections; the industrial carbon price may go up in Alberta; and Alberta may get its multibillion Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage facility. That’s an awful lot of uncertainty given all the hype and hoopla surrounding the announcement.

by Blazingcatfur•December 3, 2025December 2, 2025•0•Alberta, Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

MACLEOD: Pipeline promises, political games: Why Ottawa’s ‘lifeline’ to Alberta oil always ends in betrayal

This latest Canada-Alberta MOU is just another chapter in the same infuriating story we’ve lived through for fifty years: Ottawa dangles a lifeline to the oil patch when it needs votes or headlines, then quietly lets the rope go slack the moment BC coastal outrage or a Vancouver fundraiser kicks in.

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