Author name: Danielle Paradis

This story is being published in collaboration with The Tyee, an award-winning independent media outlet based in B.C.  At a right-wing political conference in Calgary, Bruce Pardy, the executive director for an organization called Rights Probe spoke on a panel about the need to extinguish Indigenous rights as a part of a push to separate Alberta […]

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A dual American citizen, a man from Arizona, and an Ontario law professor walk into a bar — well, actually, a casino conference room in Red Deer. It sounds like the setup to a bad joke, but the punchline is this: they came to stage a separatist intervention in Alberta. The headliner to the event […]

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In March 2025, Calgary lawyer Jeffrey Rath appeared on “Fox & Friends” to declare that Alberta is “fed up” with Ottawa. Frustrated by the carbon tax and equalization payments that Alberta makes to other provinces, Rath said Albertans are exploring independence or even thinking about joining the United States. The cowboy-hat-clad self-described “constitutional litigator,” has […]

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At Canada’s largest hydrogen industry gathering, the mood was noticeably more cautious than in years past. Delegates and panelists were preoccupied with U.S. President Donald Trump, and what his second term could mean for energy tariffs, investor confidence, and the fragile promise of hydrogen as a clean fuel. Talk of energy sovereignty — securing domestic […]

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Alberta’s first commercial hydrogen fuelling station has been shipped back to the United States, and its American owner Nikola has filed for bankruptcy. The removal came weeks before a national hydrogen conference in Edmonton, beginning Tuesday.   DeSmog has previously reported on a fraud investigation that found the company’s founder Trevor Milton had used a staged […]

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