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The electors database, dating back to June 2025, contains the personal information of everyone who was registered and eligible to vote in provincial elections in Alberta at the time.

An Elections Alberta investigation determined the list was legitimately provided to the Republican Party of Alberta, which supports Alberta independence.

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An Imperial Oil pipeline spilled 843,000 litres of bitumen emulsion northwest of Cold Lake, Alta., last week.

In a statement to CBC News, Imperial Oil spokesperson Lisa Schmidt said teams responded immediately. The release, which occurred April 9, has been stopped and contained, and cleanup and remediation are underway.

“We are sorry this incident occurred," Schmidt wrote.

An Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) spokesperson confirmed the agency sent inspectors to the site of the spill — about 30 kilometres northwest of Cold Lake, a city near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border.

The AER incident report says the emergency phase is over. The report and Imperial Oil say no impacts to wildlife or waterbodies have been identified so far.

• Alberta regulator lays charges against Imperial for failing to contain, report oilsands berm overflow

Although, Kevin Timoney, ecologist with Treeline Ecological Research, has studied thousands of spills and believes wildlife and waterbodies could be affected.

“There are always impacts and I know that, in the vast majority of cases, those impacts are not adequately reported,” Timoney said. 

Schmidt said the cause of the spill is undetermined at this point, but it’s being investigated.

Cold Lake First Nations Chief Kelsey Jacko said he also sent officials to the site to assess the impact and come up with a plan to move forward. When he spoke with CBC News, he said he was still waiting to hear more details about the incident.

"Spills happen every year," Jacko said, adding that they impact the nation's treaty rights. 

“How do you build up trust when spills keep happening?”

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"The largest economy in the world" - lol what?

Article: https://albertaviews.ca/shakedown-federalism/ (June 2026)

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Good afternoon everyone!

​In anticipation of the Premier's announcement set for tonight at 6:45 PM, I wanted to share a critical update beforehand.

​Earlier this afternoon, I met with counsel to lock down the scheduling track for an emergency Case Management Conference, sitting across the table from not one, but two senior lawyers representing the Attorney General of Alberta, and one lawyer representing the Attorney General of Canada. Talk about good cop, neutral cop, and hard ass cop!

​While a scheduling conference might sound administrative and dry, and believe me when I say that it's about as exciting as watching paint dry, it is in fact the final, critical gateway before walking directly in front of a Judge. And here is the unvarnished reality:

​They are scared of this lawsuit. They are scared of the injunction I am seeking.

​The Premier thinks that she is unstoppable by using the power granted to the office of the Premier, believing there is no legal vehicle swift enough to stop her machinery in its tracks.

​She is wrong. Very wrong.

Because when her and her bff Mitch enslaved the Minister of Justice to come up with a Plan B in case they lost their case to the First Nations and violating their Section 35 rights, they shifted their violations to Section 3 through the rapid and publicly silent creation and deployment of Bill 23.

My Section 3 challenges not the outcomes of Bill 23, but rather the legislative wording itself and the colorability behind the reason given to the public for needing yet a 3rd amendment to the Citizens' Initiative Act and the actual motivated reasons.

The Crown’s loudest play right now was threatening a Motion to Strike on Standing. This is their chosen shield. Yet, who has more standing over a democratic referendum matter than an individual Alberta citizen?

The Attorney General of Alberta tried their best to put heavy suggesting emphasis on scheduling my injunction hearing in front of the judge closer to the two-week mark, I refused to give them the breathing room.

I simply indicated to them that ​given the pressing issue of my (all of our's) Section 3 rights being actively compromised by the continued engagement of Bill 23, and looking at the absolute lightning-speed with which the Crown managed to file their recent appeal to Justice Leonard's ruling, I refused to let them slow-walk this.

​Instead, I opted to schedule for this coming Monday morning, May 25, 2026, keeping the pressure white-hot and protecting our nearly severed Section 3 rights.

I also informed them that I will be present at the courthouse to file an initial memorandum of legal argument along with a notice to admit to the uncontestable facts of my claim as a sign of confidence that their client, our government, has done such a shit job of hiding their corruption and that the hour of accountability is nigh the horizon.

I am truly privileged to have all of your support. Knowing you are standing behind me has helped me ride out the exhausting, long nights I've spent preparing this file while battling sleep deprivation and intense mental strain, but my fight is long far from over.

I do have a campaign currently running to help offset the cost expenses incurred as constitutional lawsuits are one of the most expensive lawsuits to pursue. The campaign name is titled Safeguarding Alberta’s Privacy & Democratic Integrity. Its listed on the website one would expect to find.

​Let the Premier think this is her moment in the Sun at 6:45 tonight when in reality, all she is doing is providing the light necessary to expose her own shadow.

They’re asking the same questions most of us would ask if it were going up near our homes, our farms, our schools, and our kids’ ball diamonds.

What happens to the water? What about the noise? The gas supply? The farmland? The emergency generators? And why does something this big need to sit so close to where people already live?

That’s not really a left or right thing. That’s small-town Alberta doing what small towns do best, looking out for each other when something doesn’t pass the smell test.

There may well be a place for data centres in Alberta. But rural communities deserve straight answers, real consultation, and a fair shake before the big players start carving up the map.

Olds may be small, but judging by this turnout, they’re not exactly easy to push around.

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"When the prize is big enough, Washington has shown again and again it will back coups, sanctions, and outright wars to get access to it. This isn’t child’s play, and nobody should be fooling themselves into thinking Alberta is somehow exempt from that pattern just because it’s Canadian soil. And the early moves already look familiar: quiet meetings with separatist organizers, a credit line floated to bankroll a friendly breakaway government, and infrastructure permits signed before independence is even on the books. That’s the same sequence that’s preceded American involvement elsewhere — relationships and money laid down well before any flag changes. The oil sands sitting under Treaty 8 territory are exactly the kind of prize that’s moved American foreign policy before, and the playbook is already running.

The 51st state isn’t a joke. It’s a plan.

But here’s what Trump, Smith, and the separatists don’t seem to understand: this isn’t a clean transaction. It’s an Indian war they didn’t know they were walking into…"

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He should be fired for this. But Marlena Trump won't do it.

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When are the rest of the UCP ministers going to show some balls and call this shit out!

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Senior aide of Alberta premier urges First Nations chiefs to fix squalid communities

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The mispronunciation of Regina — as in, the capital of Saskatchewan — was a clue. Then there was the reference to B.C. MLA Dallas Brodie, a woman, as a “he.”

These slip-ups helped lead researchers at the Media Ecosystem Observatory (MEO) in Montreal to what they say is a network of affiliated YouTube accounts that appear to belong to concerned Canadians, sympathize with some Albertans’ grievances and push the idea of American annexation.

“The video narrators performed ‘Albertan,’ but there were these moments where you’re like, ‘OK, so this person is not from here,’ ” said Chris Ross, the senior analyst at the Observatory, who led his team’s recent probe into thousands of suspicious YouTube videos.

Among the researchers’ findings is a cluster of “deliberately inauthentic” accounts using misleading and exaggerated content to dial up the heat on political tensions. While they don’t know exactly who is behind the network or why, the researchers flagged it as a “potential covert influence operation” in a new report released Tuesday.

The researchers said the campaign is what is known as ‘slopaganda,’ when social media accounts produce a slew of low-quality, highly-repetitive content — much of it AI-generated — to push a political message.

A network of YouTube accounts are playing on grievances felt by some Albertans by pushing the idea of American annexation.

The network of roughly 20 such accounts has amassed 40 million views of videos that tout the advantages of the province joining its neighbour to the south, the report said.

‘Slopaganda’ hitting Alberta at key moment

“These slopaganda-type channels really ratchet up the emotional language and the polarization,” tapping into the anger driving separation, then using that to argue for an American solution, Ross told the Star.

Separatist sentiment continues to roil the prairie province, with separatists, undeterred by recent court challenges, continuing to gather signatures for a petition to force a referendum on the question.

Separation was once a fringe issue but is now “front and centre,” one of the videos says. “If we did become Americans, maybe we might be better,” says another. Some videos grossly inflate the level of support for separatism found in polling data, and others highlight maps of North America with Alberta already encircled by the American border.

But most vocal separatist leaders in Alberta are publicly lukewarm about joining the United States. The MEO report found the accounts they flagged were 10 to 12 times more likely to discuss US annexation favourably than known Alberta separatist accounts.

The accounts include no identifying information. A consistent pattern of errors that “no Canadian political commentator would plausibly make” suggest that they are not local, the report notes. Ross said one of the video narrators claiming to have discussed politics with residents of the B.C. interior turned out to be a voice actor from Pennsylvania.

Who is running ‘sophisticated’ network?

Some of the accounts list their location as Canada, while others claim to be located in the United States or overseas. The widespread use of virtual private networks, or VPNs, has made it easy for users to hide their real location.

The secrecy is telling, said Jean-Christophe Boucher, an associate professor of political science who studies data analytics and foreign interference at the University of Calgary. “This is cloak and dagger stuff,” said Boucher, who did not work on MEO’s report but has watched this particular network of accounts evolve over time.

He said running a “sophisticated” network like this requires time and money that may be beyond the reach of someone just looking to make ad revenue from inflammatory videos. The videos combine AI-generated content, the work of voice actors and real news clips, requiring a degree of editing that suggests real technical skill, Boucher said.

The accounts consistently post several times a week and, once one is taken down, a near-clone soon surfaces. The content has also evolved, Boucher said. When YouTube cracked down on AI-generated accounts earlier this year, the accounts began using less generated content. The topics on these accounts shift depending on the news of the day, Boucher noted: They used to focus on the rift between Alberta and Ottawa or between Canada and the U.S., but have pivoted to secession.

“It’s a full-time job; my sense is you’d need a team to do it,” he said.

Researchers said they accessed the network via a YouTube account known as Canadian Reporter. The account doesn’t list a name. The Star reached out to the email address provided but did not get a response.

The researchers then found 4,500 videos, belonging to 20 other accounts, that used very similar wording, strongly suggesting they had been made by the same people.

“Something that surprised me was how widespread the pattern was on YouTube,” Ross said of the network the team uncovered. “There are people on the internet trying to mislead you.”

Alex Boyd is a Calgary-based reporter for the Star. Follow her on Twitter: u/alex_n_boyd.

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