Michael Birdsell
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Alberta Voices: Separatism driven by grievance politics (opens the original)
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The current separatist movement reminds us that Alberta has a long history of prairie populism: the Depression era gave us the Social Credit party of William Aberhart, who governed Alberta for 36 years with a foundation of religious fundamentalism and economic reform. It also gave us the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), with its foundation of agrarian discontent among the United Farmers of Alberta and other groups. CCF eventually became the NDP and began a national conversation about
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