An energetic crowd, the largest of its kind for the cause, gathered in front of Alberta’s Legislature yesterday, declaring October 25 as Alberta Independence Day. "My grandparents fought for Canada, and they'd be proud of what I'm standing for now, because it's not Canada anymore — it's not the same country we grew up in," one man told me when asked why he believes separation is the only way forward. "The more educated people get on what's going on — that we are not a bunch o

"We started off as a colony to serve the interests of the East in September of 1905, and here we are 120 darn years later, still being...