The true North is strong and free, and, for the moment, intact. From The New York Times: This was a big win for Prime Minister—and native Albertan—Mark Carney, who campaigned hard to keep Alberta as part of Canada, despite pressures from inside the country and out. And 75 percent of the voters in the province told El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago to get stuffed.
Alberta is home to the tar sands fields that have proven to be a jackpot for the extraction industries, despite the fact that it is the world's dirtiest fossil fuel, and that its extraction has turned a huge part of Alberta into a toxic wasteland. Recall, also, that it was this poisoned juice that supporters of the dead Keystone XL pipeline proposed to run through their continent-spanning death funnel. I mention that because, just this week, vice president J.
Divan Vance blamed the high cost of gasoline on the previous administration's energy policies, which included the cancellation of said death funnel. However, most of the economic elite in the province were staunchly behind staying in the confederation anyway. And what I find most intriguing is that the current separatist movement had its roots not in the tar sands, but in another wing-nut obsession entirely.
We have become a terrible influence on this continent.
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