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I was born in Calgary. I've spent my whole life in Toronto.
Over the past two years, filming the documentary Broken Country, I've spent more time in Alberta than I have since I moved east. And I've come away seeing the separation debate very differently than I did going in.
I met a lot of separatists. Almost none of them were who I expected. They weren't angry cranks with a flag. They were farmers, nurses, oil workers, small-business owners, grandparents. And the thing that surprised me most: most of them want nothing more than to remain in Canada. They just can't see another choice.
Think about what they've lived through. The National Energy Program. Pipelines approved, then cancelled, then litigated into the ground. A tanker ban on one coast. Hundreds of billions sent east through equalization, returned as lectures about how the industry that pays for Canada's infrastructure and provincial shortfalls is something to be ashamed of. A federal government that has gone to court to argue Alberta's own resources aren't Alberta's business. And through all of it, a Parliament where their votes are a rounding error.
You can disagree with every policy position Albertans hold and still see the pattern: a province that built one of the most productive economies on Earth, asked over and over to apologize for it.
The people pushing for a referendum aren't traitors. They're patriots. They are standing up for what they believe in and fighting for a better future for their kids, a future their own federal government keeps telling them they don't deserve. That's not a tantrum. That's what citizens are supposed to do when nobody in power is listening.
I'll say it plainly: I want nothing more than for Alberta to stay in Canada. This country is not whole without it. If Alberta leaves the country I love and am fighting for will cease to exist.
But maybe a referendum vote is exactly the wake-up call the rest of us need. Not because Alberta should leave, but because the rest of Canada has to finally decide whether it wants to be a partner or a landlord.
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Dear America,
To President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and the Americans sitting across the negotiating table from our government:
I'm writing this from Canada with a request I never thought I would make of another country.
Please help us.
Not our government. Us. The Canadian people. Please help us understand what is happening to our own country.
Our relationship with the United States is deteriorating. Our economy is hurting. Canadian and American families are worried about jobs, businesses, mortgages and the country we're going to hand our children. Yet through one of the most consequential trade disputes of our lifetime, ordinary Canadians are being left in the dark about what is actually happening.
We hear statements and vague explanations from our government. What we don't get to see or hear is what actually happened at the table.
Increasingly, Canadians are learning more about negotiations involving our own country by watching non-subsidized taxpayer funded American news and American officials.
Think about how extraordinary that is. Our media isn't working for us. Canadians are looking across the border to understand what our own government is doing. So today, I'm asking you to look back across that border at us.
Please don't leave Canadians in the dark. You have the perfect opportunity to shine the light on the truth and help Canadians to see it.
If you made Canada an offer, show us. If our government rejected something, show us. If Canada made demands that prevented an agreement, show us those too. Because we simply cannot trust what our own government and media is telling us.
Give us the timeline. Give us the documents. Give us whatever can legally be made public.
Then please do something unmistakably American...
Put it in front of the people.
Buy the television ads. Buy the newspaper ads. Buy the digital ads. Build a website containing the documents and put the address everywhere. Run a commercial during the hockey game if that's what it takes.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford bought advertising in your country because he wanted Americans to hear Ontario's message directly.
Please return the favour. Buy the ads in our country. Television, radio, social media...all of it.
Do it for Canadians who deserve to know what is being done in their name.
Americans understand something deeply that shouldn't stop mattering when you reach the 49th parallel: a government should answer to its people.
And people cannot hold their government accountable when they aren't given the information necessary to do it.
That is where we need your help.
For generations, Canadians and Americans have been neighbours in a way that goes far beyond politics. Our families live on both sides of that border. We trade together. We build things together. We defend this continent together.
Our governments can fight.
Our people don't have to become enemies.
So I'm asking you sincerely, and with more humility than Canadians are generally comfortable showing:
Please help your neighbours.
We aren't asking you to interfere in our politics. We aren't asking for money or special treatment.
We're asking you to turn on the light.
Give ordinary Canadians access to the information you already have. Speak directly to us. Trust us with the facts.
There was a time when Canada would never have needed another country to help its citizens understand what their own government was doing.
It pains me to admit that today, some of us believe we do.
And of all the countries in the world, there is only one I would think to ask.
America.
Our neighbour. Our friend. The country that has stood beside us through wars, disasters, terrorism, recessions and generations of shared history.
We're standing on the other side of that border now asking you for something remarkably small that could make an enormous difference.
Please show Canadians what happened.
• Put the documents in our hands.
• Buy the ads.
• Tell us what our own government will not.
Because right now, your Canadian neighbours need some help. And we're asking America not to look away.
@POTUS @DonaldTrump @jamiesongreer @JDVance @howardlutnick @bennyjohnson
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🚨 CANADA’S INDUSTRIAL COLLAPSE under @MarkJCarney
With receipts 🧾
📍 Honda Alliston, ON → Cancelled— $15 Billion
📍 Stellantis Brampton, ON → Moved to Illinois — $500 Million in aid pocketed
📍 Stellantis Windsor Battery Plant → Sold stake for — $100
📍 GM CAMI Ingersoll, ON → PERMANENTLY CLOSED — $2 Billion retool gone
📍 GM Oshawa, ON → Production moved to Indiana — $280 Million lost
📍 Ford Oakville, ON → EV production moved to USA — $2.3 Billion gone
📍 Northvolt Quebec → BANKRUPT — $7 Billion evaporated
📍 Invista Kingston, ON → Moving to Texas — 500 jobs gone
📍 Umicore Ontario → Shifting to Poland & South Korea — $260 Million gone
🇨🇦 TOTAL INVESTMENT LOST:
💰Over $50 Billion
Ottawa’s response?
Press releases. Photo ops.
A delusional PM who thinks your gas is cheap.
“We are a Energy Superpower 🇨🇦
More Powerful Prosperous Economy ?🤔🙇🏻🚨
This is managed decline with a price tag. 🇨🇦
RT until every Canadian sees this 👇
2026 - 2027 Oilers Schedule Release youtu.be/grjn8Up_7EI?si=Rn3_… via @YouTube
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ピアニスト ピーター・ベンスが演奏する TOTO「アフリカ」。この曲の多彩なリズムや豊かなサウンドを表現するために拡張奏法でアプローチしています
(Remember to Breathe) Canada's Alberta youtu.be/ThFCg0tBDck?si=YfQh… via @YouTube
Years later, we still LOVE this video and this province
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On this day in 2014, there wasn't a single dry eye in the building as Edmonton said farewell to Ryan Smyth, who played his final NHL game, retiring as an Edmonton Oiler.
📹: @NHL
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Floor crossing to me is immoral & unethical. You ran for a Party. You were elected to represent a party. And your constituents. You can’t just switch parties as you appear to have been bribed.
Step down. Run again.
Please vote your thoughts as to crossing the floor and RT
7%Yes you can cross.
93%No you cannot cross.
1,041 votes • Final results