Independence Calendar - Episode #29 (July 5th, 2026)
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Summary
This week on The Independence Calendar, we have a mystery singer on the show, a great interview with The Albertans for Freedom, a new third party advertiser, and some great events coming up in the dog days of summer!
Transcript
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Hi, it's John, and welcome to the Independence Calendar.
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I'm going to play a short clip of the mystery singer,
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out. So maybe you can help me out to find the mystery singer. Also, we've got a lot of pictures
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from you of signs this week. Thank you so much for sending them to me at johnboltonab at gmail.com.
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Lots of pictures this week. I'm going to call out somebody this week on the independence calendar.
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It's getting serious, folks. Wade College in Sylvan Lake. I'm calling you out. I'm calling
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you out. It's coming up on the independence calendar. I've got a great interview coming
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up with the Albertans for Freedom, a new third-party advertiser. By the way, if I haven't got to
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you yet to interview you, if you're a third-party advertiser, I plan on getting to you. And we'll
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tell you about some of the great events coming up. And there are some fantastic things coming up
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as we get into the dog days of summer, things that you can take part in. All of that coming up
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on the Independence Calendar. Let's take a look at some of the things that are actually happening
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over the next week and a little bit beyond as well that you can take part in. There are events
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happening all the time. If you've got an event, put event coming up or something like that in
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the subject matter and send it to johnboltonab at gmail.com. We've got this from my friend Tyson
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up in Edmonton. Flag wave, slow roll. This is actually happening today, July 5th from one until
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four. You can be part of one of these things. Let me go over to myself on the screen as well. The
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Flag Wavers can meet at Collingwood Road and the Anthony Henday Overpass, 1 until 4 today.
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And the Convoy in Atchison, 266th Street and 114th Avenue side road.
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And they're leaving just around 140 this afternoon, so you can check that out.
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Now let's go over to this event right here that is coming up this week.
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We've got Derek Fildebrandt from the Western Standard, and he will be debating Dwayne Bratt.
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Dwayne on the opposite side of the independence movement. Tickets available here. I'll put a link
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in the description if you'd like to go to that. I will be at this event as well. Thanks to my
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friend Angela Tabak for sending me tickets to this. There's this coming up as well. I'm going
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to be at this a week from today, Sunday, July the 12th. I actually put a little promo together on
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this and I thought it might be fun to take a look at it again. Hi, it's John and welcome to my
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kitchen, welcome to the Bolton household. Just in the kitchen today doing a little practicing
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for an upcoming event on Sunday, July the 12th at Ranchman's with Let Alberta Decide. A terrific
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breakfast is coming up. More details on how you can be part of it in just a moment. I've got my
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spatula, I've got my syrup, I've got my nose stick spray, and I've got my pancake batter. So let's get
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cooking. I have to say I really like being in the kitchen cooking. I am more comfortable outside
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on the barbecue and I don't have a lot of experience flipping pancakes, but let's give it a try.
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You're invited to the Stampede Breakfast with Let Alberta Decide, Sunday, July 12th at 9 a.m. at Ranchman's 9615 McLeod Trail South in Calgary.
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Go to LetAlbertaDecide.com and reserve your spot today.
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And while you're there, watch out for flying pancakes.
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so i'll see you at that that was a lot of fun to make now we'll go over to this of course our
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friends at let's talk alberta very busy they've got events happening all the time you know it
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might be a little slower through the summertime i don't know it all depends on how they book these
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events but if you go to let's out talk alberta.com here are some of the events that are coming up
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that you can take part in caster high river nanton cowley this one on wednesday july the 8th
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July 22nd, July 23rd, and Friday, July the 24th.
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And then, of course, there is this event coming up,
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which I'm going to mention many times over the next little while.
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This is the Telethon for Independence, Saturday, July the 18th, 11 to 11,
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with The Fringe, talking to Albertans, Chris Scott,
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Berta Proud Dad, Igor, Mitch Sylvester, many others still working on this.
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but we do need a lot of money, and you can help out.
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and donate for sure. All right, let's get down to business when it comes to signs and a few rules
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here, okay? I don't want to see a picture of a sign sitting on a lawn with grass and behind it.
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I know what all the signs look like. In front of your house, terrific. With you, even better. Or
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standing with the person who handed you the sign, that's fantastic. Not that I don't want to see
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your signs, but I've seen all the signs. I own most of the signs, which I'm going to show you
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in just a moment. The other thing is I'm doing this a little differently. I have to tell you,
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I was having an anxiety attack going through the pictures this week because during the petition
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campaign, it was very time consuming getting all those pictures together the way I did it.
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So I'm doing things differently this week to make it easier. And I think it might be a little bit
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more interesting for you as well. So here is me with my signs in front of my house. I've now got
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five of them there. Okay. I've got, this would be Albertans for Freedom. This would be Angela
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Tabak, Kathy Flett, the Alberta Women for Independence. Let's Talk Alberta, Chris Scott,
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Our Future, Our Vote, Jason Levine, and Corey Morgan's sign with Choose Alberta. Now I do have
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another sign. I picked one up yesterday. I'm up to six. This is Sheila Gunn-Reed's sign. So I'm
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going to put that in front of the house. I think I'm going to have to go two-tiered out there. Now
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this is where I'm going to get into a little bit of a beef with Wade Collins in Sylvan Lake in just
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a moment. I'm going to show you a couple of pictures from Wade and I'm really pissed off
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with Wade. Okay. So let's go to Karen and Robin in Red Deer. Let me go over to the screen. In fact,
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what I'll do right now is I'll go to screen with camera. So I'll be on the screen a little bit
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here. Karen and Robin in Red Deer, they've got a third party advertiser, Free Alberta from Overreach.
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But they're actually a registered third-party advertiser.
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Beautiful picture up front of the house with the flag as well. One of Cory's signs as well.
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Now, this is a flag picture, but saving my grandkids from Carney's New World Order. Let me
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get my face out of the way so you can see the whole thing there. Saving my grandkids from
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Carney's New World Order. Thanks for that. We do appreciate it. And let's go over to this one now.
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Let me bring myself up on the screen again. Julie, flags and signs here. Choose Alberta.
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Put a four by eight out in front of this house, but a beautiful home.
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absolutely incredible. Now I want to tell you about this. Now this is not a picture
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of a sign or a flag, but my two friends here, this is Brad and his son. Okay. So they are wearing,
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I support Alberta independence t-shirts here and they're at a Canada day event. So they sent me a
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little message saying they got accosted while they were there and they were told they should
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not be able to wear those shirts at a Canada day event. But apparently one of the people at the
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Canada Day event stood up for them and said they have freedom of speech. They were actually called
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communists. Thanks for sending that picture to me, Brad. I do appreciate it. Now, James,
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here with a Choose Alberta sign, wherever you can put your sign, you probably don't have a front
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lawn. Thanks for sending that in. I do appreciate it. Now, I'm going to come back to this one in
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just a moment. I'm going to play this one. It's a video. I'm going to play it in its entirety.
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The video quality isn't great, but I want to know who this woman is. I'm going to tell you about her
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in just a moment. Here's my friend, Wade. Okay. So this is Wade up in Sylvan Lake. Now, Wade,
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look into my eyes, Wade. I'm calling you out, man. I'm calling you out, buddy.
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Now, you saw the picture off the front. I've got five signs. I've now got this one. I got
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Sheila Gunn's Reed's, Sheila Gunn Reed's sign right here. Now, Wade hasn't got this sign,
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but count Wade's signs. He's got seven. Wade, trying to keep out in front of me with the sign
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numbers here. I'm looking for more signs, folks. I need more signs. I got to beat Wade. Now,
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Wade's got a lot of signs on his property in Sylvan Lake, but Wade, I'm coming for you, buddy.
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I'm coming for you. I am. Here's Wade's signs right here. One, two, three, four, five. He's
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got eight out here now. He's got eight signs. I'm two behind. I need more signs, folks.
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and if you can help me, let me know. Okay. And here's more Wade's one. It's still one, two,
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three, four, five, six, seven. He's got nine signs. He's up by three now. Wade, I'm coming for you,
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my friend. I'm coming for you. I'll come up to Sylvan Lake to steal some of your signs if you're
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not careful. Okay. So this is Sandra handing out Corey Morgan signs in Lethbridge. Beautiful.
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Thanks so much. Great picture, by the way. Don't you love the blue? I just love this flag. We are
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so lucky. We have the best flag in the world, folks. I don't think you can get that when you
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use emojis on Android and Apple. We need an Alberta flag emoji. Okay, what do we got down
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here? This would be DJ sending in this one with one of those huge signs of Corey Morgan's. Thanks
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so much for DJ. Also, this is, okay, so these are interesting. Now, what do you notice about these
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pictures? Okay, so let me just go back here. This would, Bill sent these in to me. Okay, so do you
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see this little character right here? Actually, when I was at the debate between Keith Wilson and
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Jason Kenney, Bill came up to me. They have this little Thomas Lukasik gnome, right? You can see
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the gnome here. And there's one right there. Here's the fringe with the gnome. Here is, oh,
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there's the gnome over here as well. I think there's another one. Let me go over here. Yeah,
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there you go. There's the gnome right there. So thanks a lot for sending in these gnome pictures.
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Oh, and I think there's another one right here. There's Jason Levine with his sign and the
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little gnome. So thanks for sending in the pictures with the gnome. I'd like to see the one that got
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taken of me when I was at that debate. It'd be really cool to see. Okay, this would be Richard
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with Alberta Nation signs. Thank you so much. I haven't got this sign either. I appreciate that.
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Thanks very much. I'd like to see that. Bruce and Chris, great picture here with one of Jason's
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signs. Big one as well. Beautiful signs. Again, that beautiful blue. Fantastic. This would be
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Bonnie, who sent this in. Faith, family, and freedom. Thanks, Bonnie, for that. I do appreciate
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it. Richard, with this tiny little sign, but fantastic, representing. I appreciate that from
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Richard. I wanted to show you this. This is an iconic picture. I'm going to take my face out of
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the way for this one, okay? I hope I wasn't blocking too much. I want you to see this.
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look at this picture that is unbelievable and thanks a lot to Tyson for sending that in
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I wanted to see you to see this one as well okay the sign or the flag on this one it's a flag
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picture but I thought this is pretty cool because the flag is bigger than the bike
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all right thanks for that picture and then we've got this of course me with my five signs hopefully
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I'll see more of them. And I'd like to see more of your pictures. Get me those sign pictures and
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I'd love to see your faces and we'll feature them on the independence calendar next week. This was
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much easier for me. Uh, I do appreciate you send me your pictures. If you'd like to get some into
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me, johnboltonab at gmail.com, put sign picture in the subject. It makes it easier for me to find
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them. If I didn't have your picture this week, resend it. Sometimes I miss them. I apologize.
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guys. Oh, I almost forgot. Okay. So I told you I was going to play this video for you. And this
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was sent to me by Ralph. I don't know who this woman is. I'd like to find out who she is.
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We've got the independence telethon coming up on July 18th. A lot more information about that
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coming up very soon. 12 hours to raise money for the third party advertisers. Maybe I can get this
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woman on the broadcast over those 12 hours on YouTube to play this song for us. I think it
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would be terrific. Video quality is not great here. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to
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play a little bit of it for you right now. And then I'm going to play the whole thing in its
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entirety at the end of this independence calendar. So let's hear a little bit of this. And thanks
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to Ralph for sending it to me. All right. All right. Okay. Rico, don't wander off.
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It's raining in Alberta. Got nothing else to do.
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Got a pen and paper so I'd like to write to you
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Now's the time to break away from government control
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Yeah, cause we're taking back our chickens
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Thanks a lot to Ralph for sending that to me and well done. Great song. Well done.
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This is the kind of stuff we need to see and hear. I think this inspires people. So thanks
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very much for that. Now I want to feature this week's interview. I was out actually,
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I went out the other day to the UCP Stampede Breakfast. I ended up at the UCP Stampede
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Breakfast. Keith Wilson ended up there, Tanya Clemens, Jeevan Mangat, my friend Heather Field,
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a bunch of third party advertisers showed up there. They were welcome. Nobody told them to
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leave. And I met up with the Albertans for Freedom, which I'm really pleased about. It's sort of the
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coordinators of the canvassers here in Calgary during the petition campaign. A lot of them
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got together and they formed a third party advertiser and they're focusing on Calgary.
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And I spoke to them as we got off to a little picnic table, just away from all the noise at
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the UCP Stampede Breakfast. So here I am with Brian and Marilyn. That's Brian. That's Marilyn
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over there. And we're at Avenida right now. The UCP is having a breakfast here, obviously. It's
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Stampede season. And we've got a number of TPAs here, as I said in the intro. And this is a new
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one for you, Albertans for Freedom. And maybe, Brian, you can explain to people who's involved
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with this one. I asked you whether you were the person who started it up, and I guess there's a
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number of different people sure so the the regional leaders and provincial leader for calgary that was
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formerly state free alberta decided that we wanted to be involved in reaching calgary for uh now
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option two so all the regional leaders joined together and created this uh third-party
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advertiser and uh we're basically the grassroots campaigners workers that are going to be going
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door to door hopefully three times trying to help convince albertans to vote option two yeah you've
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got a great sign here did you want to show this to us check this out it's two-sided fantastic yeah
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show the other side i'm going to flip it around on this side on my front lawn i'll have now have
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four different uh signs on my lawn i'll probably have six before i'm over this is terrific i really
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like this sign and it's got great information on there and it's actually a very beautiful sign so
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thank you extremely popular so is this your is this your plan to put signs up or do you have
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other things that you'd like to do well we're trying to cover the entire city of calgary
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yeah and uh we need volunteers we've got pamphlets to distribute we've got signs to go out and um
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all we need is people come help us we're not collecting signatures now we're actually uh
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basically meeting with people having conversations stop and talks we're going to be popping uh
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locations setting up pop-up locations to have conversations and going door to door you know
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distributing pamphlets and eventually we'll even have a large billboards and other signs up as well
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so and albertansforfreedom.com is the websites and that's a four not an for so it's a four in
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there you need donations can they make donations it's fully live the website's good to go and we
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want volunteers and if you can donations that'd be perfect you know i remember after the petition
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signing ended i thought you know it would be great to get people out on the side of the road the
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people that were there for four months collecting you know signatures on petitions um maybe you can
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get out there on the road and talk to people now and that's your plan i think that's a fantastic
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idea really well done stop talk we we want to help convince albertans that we're better off
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having a stronger position in canada as much as we are independent yeah what is it what was the
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number one thing that got you interested in independence what did i got meters in independence
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um i've always been a conservative yeah and i guess i was partly shocked by a number of the
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policies that had come out and effectively when the six or the nine uh bad laws uh this mou when
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it got dragged out dragged out and then basically became nothing that was when i got involved and
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started canvassing and you well for me it was the 25 plus billion that alberta sends out that
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doesn't get back i just can't do this anymore alberta has so many needs and why are we sending
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our money to ottawa so ottawa can use our money to buy votes for people to vote for the liberal
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party of canada i'm done it's interesting you talk about the nine bad laws and danielle smith
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is here today the ucp it's a breakfast here she'll be announcing the pipeline today of course
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she's been saying that the nine bad laws are gone they aren't gone they are still in place in
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particularly c69 c48 but yeah i'm she's here today and i appreciate what you're doing here
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We've heard from Corey Morgan, you know, how onerous the task is to get everything done.
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So you've got a lot of hands working on this, a lot of people working on it.
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You know, I want them to be in a free and prosperous Alberta.
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I don't want them to be forced to go to another part.
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Well, hopefully in a few weeks, we'll have some merch on our site, too.
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It was really nice meeting you, and good luck moving forward.
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Go over there, make a donation, and help them out so they can get more of these signs out.
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And if there's more TPAs and people that want to put signs out there, happy to line them up on my lawn.
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Thanks a lot to Brian in Maryland for talking to me the other day.
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If I haven't got to your third-party advertiser yet,
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In the independence movement, we're lucky to have a lot of great leaders,
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a lot of great speakers, and a lot of great volunteers.
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Prior to this referendum campaign, I had people say we'll need at least five to six million dollars.
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Some of the third party advertisers are doing great right now, bringing in tens of thousands of dollars.
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And think of this. Every political party in the country is going to be coming into Alberta this summer and into the fall to stop the Alberta independence movement.
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That includes Pierre Polyev and the Conservatives.
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All the MPs you voted for in the last election are going to be trying to stop you.
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Do you really think the CBC is going to give the Alberta independence movement a fair shake when it comes to this referendum?
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And what really should bug you about that is $1.4 billion goes to the CBC every year,
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and they're going to be using your money to fight Alberta independence.
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Well, here's the plan, and this has never been done before.
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Coming up on Saturday, July the 18th, from 11 a.m. until 11 p.m., the telethon for independence.
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The idea is to stream this on all the independence channels on YouTube at the same time.
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including The Fringe, Talking to Albertans, My Channel, Chris Scott,
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We'll have a lot of the leaders of the independence movement,
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including Mitch Sylvester, Jeff Rath, Dennis Modry, Keith Wilson,
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and others involved, and you're going to be an integral part of this,
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We've got some other studios set up, and we've got some surprises on the way as well.
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It's coming up again, Saturday, July 18th, 11 to 11, the Telethon for Independence.
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I hope you can be part of the Telethon for Independence coming up on July 18th.
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As I say in that, we're going to need a lot of money and you can help out.
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You can still donate to the third-party advertisers right now,
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but on that day, try to encourage other people to help them all out
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because to win this thing, it's going to take a lot of cash.
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Thank you very much for watching the Independence Calendar.
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If you'd like to get in touch and send me your pictures of signs, johnboltonab at gmail.com.
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And we're going to end with the unknown woman singing.
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And again, thanks to Ralph for sending this video in.
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Got nothing else to do, got a pen and paper so I'd like to write to you.
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Now's the time to break away from government control.
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We're strong and free Albertans, and that's the way we rule.
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Cause we're taking back our chickens and cows and ducks
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We're never eating crickets, thank you very much
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They've cancelled all our gas and oil cause that's what they chose
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In Canada, we love you, but that's just not enough
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To keep us in a country that put us in handcuffs
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Please join our fight for freedom, we'd like to take you there
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But if you choose to stay, we'll have to give up this affair