🇨🇦 Alberta's Danielle Smith’s Anti-Democratic Electoral ‘Reforms’ Straight f. Trump2 Playbook
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/04/30/Danielle-Smith-Electoral-Reforms-Trump-Playbook
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 #Christofascism #transgenocide
#Poilievre #DanielleSmith #ScottMoe #Trumpism
🏳️⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter #TransRights
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870
Danielle Smith nudging Alberta separation vote: Not "if," but "when"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/danielle-smith-alberta-separation-referendum-threshold-analysis-1.7524320
* activists were already planning referendum
* UCP bill slashes signatures needed
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 #Christofascism #transgenocide
#DanielleSmith #Trumpism #separatism
#antiLGBT #transphobia #Poilievre #ScottMoe
#ElbowsUp #never51
🏳️⚧️ #TransLivesMatter
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870
Activists would need signatures from a reduced fraction of Albertans to force a referendum, thanks to a new UCP bill. But to actually win separation, they must climb a much higher wall (and most oppose the idea).
🇨🇦 Albertans rally to separate f. Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-seperation-rally-legislature-may-3-1.7526053
Alberta government introduces legislation to lower bar for holding referendums
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 #Christofascism #transgenocide
🇨🇦 #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #ScottMoe #Trumpism #separatism #sedition
🏳️⚧️ #TransLivesMatter
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870
🇨🇦 Alberta: Trump Officials Discussed $500M Alberta Independence Loan, Separatist Claims
https://www.desmog.com/2025/07/22/trump-officials-discussed-500m-alberta-independence-loan-separatist-claims
* private Washington D.C. meeting about Alberta becoming 51st state
Who Needs Canadian Unity? Danielle Smith Plays w. Separation
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114308776015841748
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 #Christofascism #SCOTUS #transgenocide
🇨🇦 #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #ScottMoe #Trumpism
🏳️⚧️ #TransLivesMatter
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870
🇨🇦 Values
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T8eCeeVbYmsEzvvyUmoDC0KeKvjB9E57YG4AvU97RZo
#AlbertaProsperityProject Counts on Americans to Help Break Apart Canada
https://pressprogress.ca/the-albertans-counting-on-america-to-help-break-apart-canada
* fed up w. finding a constitutional path to separation,
* looks to U.S. for other means
* non-profit society (not a registered charity): not required to publish a list of donors.
Alberta: Trump Officials Discussed $500M Alberta Independence Loan
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114899438179063015
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 #Christofascism #SCOTUS #transgenocide
🇨🇦 #DanielleSmith #Trumpism
🏳️⚧️ #TransLivesMatter
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870
This is the danger of populists like Poilievre; Danielle Smith: 'We should let them come down into the U.S.': Trump cabinet member weighs in on Alberta separatism
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/we-should-let-them-come-down-into-the-u-s-trump-cabinet-member-weighs-in-on-alberta-separatism-9.7058082
🇺🇲 U.S.Treasury Sec Scott Bessent weighs in w. populist (fossil fools) rhetoric
Alberta / UCP / Take Back Alberta (Vancouver billionaire Chip Wilson backed UCP caucus grp) fully ensconced in far-right populism / ultraconservatism, Trumpism, separatism, climate denial, transgenocide...
Our country 🇨🇦, incl. AB!
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent commented Thursday on the separatist movement in Alberta — making him the highest-ranking member of the Trump administration to weigh in on the province's politics.
The more Trump allies covet Alberta, the less popular separatism may get
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/analysis-alberta-separatism-scott-bessent-9.7059168
Independence leaders crave U.S. cabinet member's support, but don't want province to join States
Alberta / Danielle Smith / UCP:
* home of Alberta Republican Party
* far-right libertarian billionaire influencers: Chip Wilson, Take Back Alberta (UCP caucus group)
* separatist movement | parental rights movement | transgenocide | ...
* fossil fools lobby | climate denial
* ...
Know your enemy ... U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent talks encouragingly about prospect of Alberta separating f. Canada 🇨🇦
“They have great resources. Albertans are a very independent people” Bessent told conservative website Real America’s Voice.
Real America's Voice
* parent company Performance One Media
* owner Robert J. Sigg - convicted of fraud
* began w. Turner Media Group
Apple does not drop far f. tree: 2012, Sigg's son kidnapped/murdered 10-y.o. girl
...
* 2018 Sigg's WeatherNation TV dropped by DirecTV
* 2019 Sigg's network purchased distribution rights to Steve Bannon's War Room podcast
* 2021 Sigg discussed desire to turn his network's footage of Trump rallies into non-fungible tokens 🤔
Comment: these posts aren't popular / upvoted / shared, but factual reporting of conservative movements and their minions is critical to understanding the forces (wealth / power) and influences that shape our lives.
🇨🇦 The Wild Claims of Jeff Rath, Separatist Firebrand
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/01/26/Wild-Claims-Jeff-Rath-Separatist-Firebrand
The free-swinging Alberta Prosperity Project leader is caught on video spouting conspiracy theories and profanities.
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #AmericanReich #hegemony
🇨🇦 #DanielleSmith #transgenocide
🏳️⚧️ #TransLivesMatter #TLM #BTLM
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870
#capitalism #inequality #DemocraticSocialism #justice
Capitalism + fossil fuels lobby = anthropogenic climate change
🇨🇦 "Alberta Prosperity Project" 🤨 Inside the Right-Wing Movement Pushing Alberta to Secede From Canada
https://truthout.org/articles/inside-the-right-wing-movement-pushing-alberta-to-secede-from-canada
* Trump officials repeatedly met w. Alberta secessionist leaders
* Alberta: oil & gas deposits
* AB separation movement leaders say they have a meeting with U.S. Treasury Department
* will ask for $US500 billion line of credit to transition Alberta to a U.S. state
* Alberta Prosperity Project: Mitch Sylvestre: Stay Free Alberta separatist referendum
🇨🇦 Alberta Prosperity Project: "Faith, Family, Freedom"
* constitution “that recognizes the Supremacy of God as foundational to Civil Society & the Rule of Law”
Faith: white Christian nationalism | theocracy | Christofascism
Family: white, paternalist, misogyny - women silenced: male-led "family vote" | binary M/F | "parental rights" anti-LGBT / transgenocidal movement
Freedom: neoliberalism, oligarchy, authoritarianism | separatism; anti-{union | solidarity}
Related: B.C. Prosperity Project
🇨🇦 As Alberta separatists court the U.S., prosperity is fuelling a sovereigntist turn
https://theconversation.com/as-alberta-separatists-court-the-u-s-prosperity-is-fuelling-a-sovereigntist-turn-274914
In the past year, leaders of Alberta’s main separatist organization have traveled repeatedly to Washington, D.C., for quiet meetings with senior American government officials in the Treasury and State departments.
They’ve reportedly discussed everything from adopting the American dollar to building an independent Alberta military.
May 2025: Calgary Lawyer Jeffrey Rath Pitching Alberta as 51st State
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114540654864126812
Feb 2026: Alberta Separatism Has Always Been About Joining Trump’s America
https://www.desmog.com/2026/02/19/alberta-separatism-has-always-been-about-joining-trumps-america
Leaders of the Alberta separatist movement are insisting they do not want to become the U.S.’s 51st state, but their actions (and own words) say otherwise.
Danielle Smith, Mark Rath ... billionaires ... the people tearing Canada 🇨🇦 apart
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #GOP #Christofascism #transgenocide
🇨🇦 #DanielleSmith #Trumpism
🇨🇦 Prominent Alberta Separatist Jeffrey Rath Calls for a Coup Against Danielle Smith
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/05/19/Prominent-Alberta-Separatist-Calls-For-Coup
Jeffrey Rath blasts agreement with Mark Carney and urges supporters to take over the UCP
Trumpian politics Alberta style ...
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
Chris Trottier