Edmonton Journal
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📍 AB
May 20, 2026
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Opinion: Let Albertans have their say on separating or staying
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Article Excerpt
Premier Danielle Smith is absolutely right to defend the process of a citizen’s petition against an unelected and undemocratic (Eastern Canadian) appointed judge. Ironically, this is part of the problem that the independence movement repeatedly calls out. Seven hundred thousand Albertans signed two separate citizens’ petitions that ask essentially the same question, and both want […]
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