Category Sovereignty
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Sovereignty
Alberta Requests $33 Billion From U.S. Defense Department to Relocate NORAD Deeper Into Rockies, Citing 'Both Strategic and Personal Reasons'
Province insists the reinforced mountain facility is for continental defense and absolutely not a fallback position.
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Sovereignty
Province Announces Plan to Dig Canal Directly to Ocean, Inspired by Greek Waterway That Took 2,600 Years and Went Bankrupt Twice
The Alberta Inland Sea Initiative will give the province 'full sovereign access to international shipping lanes,' assuming agreement from BC, the Rockies, and the laws of topography.
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Sovereignty
Stats Canada Study Finds Alberta Government Responses to Separation Survey Statistically Indistinguishable From Those of Blind Monkeys
Researchers note the finding is not an insult to the monkeys, who completed the forms faster and with greater internal consistency.
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Public Safety
New Alberta Provincial Police Force to Have All the Powers of the RCMP, But Answer Only to the Premier, Which Is Totally Different
Justice Minister insists the new agency represents a 'natural evolution' of policing, then declined to identify which direction the evolution had gone.
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Treaty Relations
Treaty Chiefs Pass Unanimous Non-Confidence in UCP; Government Calls This a 'Strong Mandate to Continue'
First-ever joint non-confidence vote from the Assembly of Treaty Chiefs of Treaties 6, 7, and 8 is received warmly by a government that appears to have not finished reading the document.
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Sovereignty
Editorial: We Asked Five Albertans What 'Sovereignty Within a United Canada' Means and One Cried
An unscientific man-on-the-street survey reveals widespread confusion about a phrase the Premier uses approximately 40 times a week.