John Bolton - July 18, 2026


It's Time To Make A Stand, Alberta


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Length

13 minutes

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161.25

Word count

2,177

Sentence count

163

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Toxicity

3

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Hate speech

1

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The largest online event in Alberta history is happening this morning and we need your help to make it happen. Join us for the biggest online event Alberta has ever seen and help us beat the previous record of $100,000 raised by a single person!

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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel, 342 a.m. Saturday, July the 18th. I hope you're having a
00:00:08.660 great weekend so far. I appreciate you being here. And this is going to be a fairly quick video today.
00:00:15.140 I've got some things I've got to do in slightly over seven hours. We're starting on quite a journey
00:00:21.500 today at 11 o'clock this morning for 12 consecutive hours. Now, before I talk about that,
00:00:30.000 You know, I have felt blessed to be part of the Alberta independence movement.
00:00:36.500 I've met so many great people over the last year and a half.
00:00:39.420 I really started talking about independence in probably January of 2025 when things started to percolate again.
00:00:47.000 I was out at Keith Wilson and Tanya Clemens' event at Ranchman's for Let Alberta Decide.
00:00:53.100 I guess it was just less than a week ago now.
00:00:56.020 and I was lucky enough to be asked to be the emcee there and I mean just honored that they
00:01:03.200 asked me and I said at that event if you weren't there I said you know we've we've all got something
00:01:10.040 in common here and I said we're all working towards a common goal and that would be the
00:01:14.740 independence movement but I said we also have something else in common and the fact it's the
00:01:19.540 fact that we're all good friends I have so many great friends in the independence movement and
00:01:25.600 The people that are part of this movement are upbeat, happy, and optimistic.
00:01:30.800 And it's just a blessing that I get to know you people and I get to meet you people.
00:01:35.500 So I wanted to say that.
00:01:36.800 It really means something to me.
00:01:40.740 Probably a week or so after the petitions were handed in at Elections Alberta by Mitch Sylvester,
00:01:48.300 I went to Mitch with an idea.
00:01:50.420 I said, listen, I've got this idea for a telethon.
00:01:52.720 and I handed him a one pager on what it was about and I think I put at the top of the page
00:01:59.240 you know think Jerry Lewis muscular dystrophy telethon and he took it and he had it and a
00:02:06.540 little while later I got back to him said Mitch I want that one cheater back I want to run with
00:02:10.580 that I want to see if we can do something really big to raise money for the independence movement
00:02:15.100 and he gave it back to me and I've been running with it ever since with a lot of really great
00:02:21.440 people. I'm probably going to say this on the broadcast between 11 and 12. I'm going to be on
00:02:27.240 this morning with Mitch for the first hour of the event that's coming up. I'm probably going to say
00:02:32.920 this, but everybody I asked to help with this event, this telethon that's coming up this morning,
00:02:43.460 everybody without hesitation said yes not i'll think about it everybody said yes first time
00:02:53.120 and that just shows you the friendship that we've gained that we have in this movement
00:03:01.380 we've got dozens of people part of this event today and it's a big event this is quite the
00:03:08.200 thing i'll see if i can pull the pictures off my phone i took some pictures of just the control
00:03:13.080 room yesterday from our studio here in Calgary, and it's quite the undertaking. I had no idea.
00:03:19.260 Thanks to my friend Max. You know, Max has got to the point where he's on the level with Prince
00:03:25.320 and Madonna. You know, he's a one-name guy. Everybody knows Max. Max worked his butt off
00:03:31.600 for five hours, and we've got a couple hours work to do this morning. I think of Jager Gustafson,
00:03:36.060 who's been working with Stay Free Alberta and the independence movement. He helped out. He's
00:03:39.800 been amazing. We're using his studio today, which is remarkable. And I think of my friends,
00:03:45.340 Critical Compass, Mike and James up in Edmonton. We have a studio in Edmonton for the telethon
00:03:49.640 today. We're going to be in Mexico, but everybody said yes immediately. And I want to go through
00:03:56.900 all the names right now, but they're wonderful people. And I want you today to say yes to this
00:04:05.040 event right here. It's going on from 11 to 11. We're streaming it everywhere. It says 10 YouTube
00:04:12.420 channels on this graphic you're seeing here. It's likely a lot more than that. We're going to be on
00:04:17.480 Facebook and X. You can see the hosts we've got. I'll play the promo off the end. Every one of them
00:04:23.480 is a rock star. Special guests, more of them coming in. We'll probably have more today. It
00:04:29.500 probably is the largest online event in Alberta history. I'm hoping you'll say yes to this today
00:04:34.280 because how you can help out today is by making a donation.
00:04:37.380 We need to make, we need to take a stand.
00:04:41.660 We need to draw the line in the sand.
00:04:45.580 The other side has an incredible amount of money and power on their side to defeat us.
00:04:51.980 And the only way we can beat them, I hate to say it,
00:04:55.080 obviously the people are important.
00:04:56.820 The volunteers are important.
00:04:57.960 The third-party advertisers we're supporting in this are important.
00:05:01.280 The only way we're going to do this is if we have a lot of money.
00:05:04.500 It's just the way things work.
00:05:08.060 So today, if you can, please make a donation.
00:05:14.040 I'm hoping we can get an update on how much money we get today.
00:05:17.480 I don't know how much it will be.
00:05:20.880 I don't even want to make a guess.
00:05:22.860 I don't like doing that.
00:05:24.200 But I hope it's a lot.
00:05:28.440 Albertatelethon.com is the website.
00:05:30.720 But you could go there right now and make a donation if you're seeing this right now.
00:05:34.380 But make a donation today to help us out.
00:05:36.720 It's going to be epic.
00:05:40.820 I'm nervous about it.
00:05:45.200 It's been a lot of work.
00:05:47.020 You know, I was thinking when I was out yesterday driving my car around,
00:05:51.820 I saw a couple of guys on their bikes.
00:05:53.860 I'm a cyclist, and I haven't been on my bike very much in the last three, four weeks.
00:05:58.740 because i've been spending a lot of time working on this shuffling people around getting people to
00:06:03.000 help out and again everybody said yes which made the burden much simpler for me and everybody
00:06:10.100 involved but i'm going to be taking probably a couple of days off after this i might try to do
00:06:17.620 my independence calendar tomorrow because of this event today but if you can help out for goodness
00:06:21.560 sakes do it today and every day if you can if you have the means please help out remember if you have
00:06:28.560 the means, you can spend up to $5,000, and we're going to need a lot of money to do this.
00:06:35.160 Here are the third-party advertisers we'll be supporting today. There are others out there,
00:06:39.340 and people said to me, John, why aren't you using all the other ones as well? I picked
00:06:44.920 six of these back first week of June, second week of June, so a lot of the ones on the screen right
00:06:52.080 now, they were picked well over a month ago, and I thought it was manageable. I added one more,
00:06:57.280 this past week or so with the blessing of the host.
00:07:02.400 So we're up to seven here.
00:07:03.560 There are others out there that are doing good things,
00:07:05.480 and I hope, and I will work with them
00:07:08.120 over the next couple of months to raise them some money.
00:07:12.060 We want to help them as well.
00:07:13.100 Be careful.
00:07:13.720 There are some I don't know much about.
00:07:16.280 So make sure you can trust the people
00:07:18.680 you're giving your money to.
00:07:22.360 There's also this coming up tonight.
00:07:24.980 Let me bring this up on the screen.
00:07:27.280 And I have a feeling this could be an absolute blowout in Airdrie.
00:07:34.440 This could be one of the most amazing parties you've ever been to.
00:07:38.240 I don't think we're going to fit everybody into Paul's Pizza in Airdrie tonight.
00:07:43.400 With Mr. and Mrs. Albertan and my friend John talking to Albertans who's coming in here from Red Deer.
00:07:48.300 This is going to be one hell of a party in Airdrie from 8 to 11 tonight.
00:07:52.180 We'll be broadcasting live from 8 to 9 on the Independence Telethon.
00:07:55.420 probably throwing it back there after I kind of wrap things up from our studio in Calgary
00:08:01.180 just after 10 o'clock tonight but that is going to be amazing an amazing party I think we'll fill
00:08:07.080 the parking lot there'll be a lot of blue flags there if you can head out there you will be able
00:08:10.980 to make a donation in a jar Mr. and Mrs. Albertan have made these incredible jars you can put some
00:08:15.900 money in to help out the third-party advertisers that is going to be unbelievable you don't want
00:08:21.900 to miss that. And thanks to Paul's Pizza. You know, there are some businesses out there that
00:08:28.860 have put themselves on the line. Paul's has paid a bit of a price for supporting the independence
00:08:34.200 movement. Mr. Albertan went to them and said, would you do this party? And they said, yes,
00:08:39.280 again, no hesitation. You got to stick up for great businesses like that. And then I think
00:08:48.660 about this, and I didn't want to make this controversial. Jason Levine, my friend yesterday,
00:08:53.400 sent this to me. This is deplorable. Last night, a forever insane Canadian vandalized the cool
00:09:02.020 shit store in Red Deer by spray painting. Traitor on the sign and breaking two windows. Let's see 1.00
00:09:07.680 if Thomas Lukaszek will condemn this behavior. For all the patriots out there, come visit Rob
00:09:12.780 and support his business. He has some very cool shit. 6750, 52nd Avenue, Red Deer. Yes, support 0.99
00:09:19.980 them. Makes me mad, you know. I talked about our friends in the independence movement, and I
00:09:27.720 talked about that last weekend, as I said earlier in this video. I remember when one of our friends
00:09:33.060 got thrown into the street in Edmonton, and I called out Lekazik and Kenny and Daniel Smith.
00:09:40.300 are you going to you're going to say something about this are you going to condemn this i don't
00:09:46.340 remember them saying a damn thing i don't remember them saying a damn thing at all so today's a big
00:09:55.300 day every day is a big day you realize we are three months to the day from voting option two 0.88
00:10:04.500 question 10 three months to the day today think of what's happening in canada today
00:10:10.040 Think of the things that have been happening over the last 10 years, over the last 40 years for Alberta.
00:10:14.500 But what's happening today?
00:10:15.820 Bill C-9 goes into place.
00:10:17.660 So they're slowly taking away your free speech.
00:10:20.700 That's happening today.
00:10:24.580 Donate if you can.
00:10:26.360 Again, I'll try to see if we can get an update on how much money we have through the day once or twice.
00:10:33.920 But we'll get a tally for you, whether it's good or bad.
00:10:37.580 I'm going to be on at 11 o'clock with my good friend, Mitch Sylvester.
00:10:41.260 I've got a good friend from Sylvan Lake who's going to visit us, I understand, so we'll have him dropping by.
00:10:45.640 There's also this coming up I want to bring to your attention.
00:10:50.180 Chris Scott will be on from 5 to 6 p.m.
00:10:53.280 We've got this email address for you.
00:10:55.440 I'd like you to use it.
00:10:57.400 Let's make Chris, let's get him busy.
00:11:00.060 Let's go alberta1 at gmail.com.
00:11:02.040 If you've got a question or a comment for Chris, and he's going to have who I call the hidden weapon of the Alberta independence movement on with him, Dennis Kalama.
00:11:10.240 If you've never met Dennis or heard Dennis, the man is incredibly smart.
00:11:14.760 And Chris, I don't think, has spoken with Dennis before, but I said, would you like to have Dennis on with you?
00:11:18.940 Chris said, yeah, I've been wanting to speak.
00:11:21.980 I've been wanting to speak to Dennis.
00:11:23.540 So if you can, let'sgoalberta1 at gmail.com.
00:11:27.960 Send them some questions.
00:11:29.760 Huge day today.
00:11:30.680 I am nervous.
00:11:32.040 But I'm excited.
00:11:35.980 And I want you to be part of this.
00:11:38.080 We're all in this together.
00:11:40.160 We've seen what's happened in Canada.
00:11:43.140 We don't dislike Canada, but we're ready to move on.
00:11:46.460 We've grown up. Alberta's grown up.
00:11:48.880 And we want to move out.
00:11:51.640 And today's a big day.
00:11:53.620 And the next three months are going to be huge.
00:11:58.640 Thank you so much.
00:12:02.040 I appreciate it very much.
00:12:04.760 This is a very specific video for very specific people today.
00:12:10.540 I appreciate you being here every day.
00:12:12.860 I really do.
00:12:14.540 I'll see you at the Independence Telethon at 11 a.m. this morning,
00:12:18.500 live streaming for 12 straight hours.
00:12:22.860 YouTube all across the Internet today.
00:12:25.860 Facebook and X, the biggest online event in Alberta history.
00:12:30.060 you can make a donation right now
00:12:32.540 albertatelethon.com
00:12:34.060 click on a link, fill in all the information
00:12:36.160 I appreciate your time
00:12:38.500 thank you
00:13:00.060 We'll be right back.