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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Premier Danielle Smith addressing Albertans and introducing a referendum question on Alberta remaining in Canada. ]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Chicken price increase in a year ]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Premier Wab Kinew]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Doug Ford and Melanie Joly in Sault St. Marie ]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Premier Danielle Smith addressing Albertans and introducing a referendum question on Alberta remaining in Canada. ]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Making sense of Alberta’s kinda-sorta independence referendum]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ China Flag]]></image:caption>
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<loc>https://www.westernstandard.news/news/first-nations-leaders-push-to-criminalize-residential-school-denialism/73671</loc>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Kamloops Residential School]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ L. to r. Catherine Chau, Elisse White, Elany Littlejohn, Mayor Jeromy Farkas, Joshua Stromberg, Ezra Stanescu, Xavier Romeski.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Former Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Alberta’s independence movement]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Mandeep Dhaliwal, MLA for Surrey North, introduces a motion in the British Columbia Legislature calling for recognition of the 1984 Sikh Genocide.]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Carney, Smith and the people who hold them back]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Thomas Lukaszuk speaking to the committee assigned to review his Forever Canadian petition. ]]></image:caption>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Premier Danielle Smith addressing Albertans and introducing a referendum question on Alberta remaining in Canada. ]]></image:caption>
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<lastmod>2026-05-22T00:45:00.000Z</lastmod>
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<image:caption><![CDATA[ Premier Danielle Smith’s address to Albertans]]></image:caption>
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