Alberta

US seeks to use Alberta to destabilize Canada

The threat has shifted. While Europeans breathed a sigh of relief at US President Donald Trump’s recent retreat on Greenland, Canada has now become the target. The US administration has set its sights on the province of Alberta, an energy hub in western Canada that accounts for 90% of national oil production. “Alberta is a natural partner for the US,” declared Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on January 22 during his visit to Davos, Switzerland, as if referring to a fully sovereign state. Notably, he was responding to MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec, a prominent Christian nationalist. “People are talking. People want sovereignty. They want what the US has got,” Bessent noted.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada, USA

Bessent pans Carney, cheers on Albertan separatism amid growing US-Canada rift

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent needled Canada over the prospect of an independence referendum in Alberta this week, as President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney are locked in a clash over Ottawa’s role in the hemisphere.

“Alberta is a natural partner for the U.S.,” he told conservative podcaster Jack Posobiec in an interview Thursday. “They have great resources. The Albertans are very independent people. Rumor that they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Alberta, Canada, USA

Alberta Separation Petition Drive Got a Bad Case of ‘Holy SMOKES, We Got This Thing in the Bag’

Oh, my GOODNESS! This is some wild news coming out of Canada, and I’m not talking about that loser Carney sucking up to Xi Jinping the Pooh.

A little over a week ago, the first stops on the petition drive for to force a referendum on separating from Canada began.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Alberta, Canada

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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, 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.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, 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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Western Alienation Separation", "Western Independence", Alberta, Canada

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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, 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.”

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, 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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Big Tranny