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"Were it not for the United Conservatives’ speedy passage of Bill 14 this week, the Alberta Prosperity Project’s citizens initiative would have been in peril, thanks to a judge’s ruling that the existing initiative law didn’t permit a referendum on independence."

How a UCP bill renewed Alberta separatist bid to force referendum, after court shot it down https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-separatism-referendum-bill-14-analysis-9.7014578

ANALYSIS | Alberta separatists reapply for referendum question, boosted by new UCP bill | CBC News

The Danielle Smith government made it easier last spring for an independence petition to succeed. Then they removed more hurdles this month.

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Mark Shane Hayden Dec 13

@dyckron that separatist poster in the article photograph tho

...such a...Stalinist or Nazi aesthetic. Does Premier Smith, who claims to be libertarian-minded, really want to associate with that sort of totalitarian imagery?

She'll do anything to keep her job I guess I dunno

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Mélani (Melanie) Bjornsdottir (she, ŝi)

@msh @dyckron How ironic that they depict a doctor flanking the hard-hatted manager, flanking the hard hatted ¿oil worker? ¿farmer? - when doctors are going to be the most disadvantaged by an independent Alberta (overloaded, paid by private companies that fuck them around). Also nobody is any colour or facial structure other than Italo-Teutonic. So on top of all of that it’s racist. #lang_en #CApol #CApol_AB