Juno News - September 28, 2025
Carney slapped with failing grade in new billboard campaign
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Summary
A Western Canadian advocacy group has rolled out a national campaign, with billboards placed across the country and report cards giving Prime Minister Mark Carney a failing grade. Meanwhile, Alberta Premier Daniel Smith has confirmed the province will not enforce Ottawa s gun confiscation program. Activists in Calgary are calling for the city to adopt sanctuary city status, but a provincial minister says the idea carries no legal weight. And in Edmonton, the bike lane controversy may be coming to a halt as the city council has voted down a motion which would have stopped bike lanes until further consultation. All that and more on this week s Alberta Roundup with Isaac Lamoureux ( )!
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This week, a Western Canadian advocacy group has rolled out a national campaign,
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with billboards nationwide and report cards giving Prime Minister Mark Carney a failing grade.
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Meanwhile, Alberta Premier Daniel Smith has confirmed the province will not enforce Ottawa's gun confiscation program,
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maybe taking the voluntary comments from the libs to heart.
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Activists in Calgary are calling for the city to adopt sanctuary city status,
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but a provincial minister says the idea carries no legal weight.
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And in Edmonton, the bike lane controversy may be coming to a halt as the city council has voted down a motion
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which would have stopped bike lanes until further consultation.
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All that and more on this week's Alberta Roundup.
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I'm your host, Isaac Lamoureux, and let's dive into that first story right away.
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So the Buffalo Project has launched a national billboard and digital ad campaign
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grading Prime Minister Mark Carney's first six months in office, and he's been given a failing grade.
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The Buffalo Project launched the new campaign on Wednesday,
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with billboards popping up in major cities across the country and even in Napaian,
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which Carney represents in the House of Commons.
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Created in 2018, the Buffalo Project advocates for challenges faced by Alberta and Saskatchewan
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The name stems from when the two provinces were to be named Buffalo before former Prime Minister
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Wilfrid Laurier split them, arguing that one province would be too difficult to govern.
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A campaign spokesperson told True North that the project has been met with overwhelming censorship.
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The billboard and ad campaign will run for four weeks,
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and billboards have been strategically placed in Ottawa and the Prime Minister's constituency
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riding of Napaian to drive home the message that the West refuses to be ignored.
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Buffalo Project member Herb Pinder said the promises Carney made in March have not materialized.
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Mark Carney came into office promising aggressive action to build our economy into an energy superpower
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The West Coast tanker ban, bill C-69, and the emissions cap.
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Devastating Trudeau-era policies are still on the books.
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He added that the laws could have been at least announced to have been removed in the first week,
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but instead, Pinder said Western Canada's priorities are being ignored,
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while investment has stalled and jobs are being lost.
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and ignoring its needs puts our national economy at risk.
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Report on Carney.ca provided four separate report cards,
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Starting with the joint asks from Alberta and Saskatchewan,
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Repeal the Impact Assessment Act, bill C-69, F.
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Scrap or amend the clean electricity regulations, F-.
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The project said Carney has made some announcement, at least,
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but they added that his list of approved projects, of course,
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Lastly, give power over the industrial carbon tax to the provinces, F-.
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And the next report card was on Alberta-specific asks,
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Of course, we know it's been paused for this year, but not repealed.
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And then, repeal legislation that censors energy companies, F-.
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Alberta Premier Daniel Smith previously issued nine demands for Carney to accomplish in his first six months in office,
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And Smith gave Carney half a year to implement the demands,
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but the Prime Minister has not followed through on any of them.
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One of Smith's demands was for Carney to eliminate the oil and gas emissions cap,
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and a motion to eliminate this cap was actually voted against on Tuesday,
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While Carney got a C on his Alberta report card for pausing the EV mandate,
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he only received Ds and Fs for Saskatchewan's demands.
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Negotiate with China to remove tariffs on canola, F.
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Stop trying to collect the carbon tax on home heating, D.
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Improve the investment climate and accelerate project approvals, D+.
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But the project also graded Carney on a national basis,
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The Buffalo project also provided a press release to True North.
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Six months in, Western Canadians are still waiting for real action from the Prime Minister.
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Mark Carney promised a different approach from Justin Trudeau,
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but we're not seeing the urgent measures that we need to kickstart Canada's economy.
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The project argues that demands from Alberta and Saskatchewan
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are critical to the country's economic survival.
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Western Canada has the resources to fuel the entire nation,
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which could make Canadians less vulnerable to tariff and supply chain threats.
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The Buffalo project urges all Canadians to review the report card
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and ask whether this government is truly delivering for the entire country.
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The time for action is now, and Western Canada will not be ignored.
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In fact, one of the billboards can actually be seen in Calgary right now.
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But for our next story, we'll hop over to Alberta
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standing up against the Liberals' firearm confiscation program.
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Premier Daniel Smith has confirmed Alberta will not enforce Ottawa's firearms confiscation program.
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Alberta's government will not be cooperating with this gun grab
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We expect law enforcement to focus their time and resources
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like policing violent criminals, not hunters and sport shooters.
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The quote originally came from a Tuesday joint statement
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from Alberta's Minister of Justice, Mickey Amory,
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and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Services, Mike Ellis.
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The two ministers clarified that Alberta has already taken steps
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to limit the reach of the program, including blocking municipalities
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and requiring anyone who seizes, stores, or destroys firearms in Alberta
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to be licensed through the Chief Firearms Officer.
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They added that they would also continue to advocate
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and their right to own, collect, and use firearms
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The announcement follows weeks of contradictions in Ottawa's messaging.
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that Canadians who fail to surrender their firearms
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once the amnesty expires will be considered criminals
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In a recently leaked audio, Ananda Sangri privately admitted
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he doubted police had the resources to enforce the plan.
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He told the tenant of one of his rental properties
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that he would bail him out of jail if he were arrested.
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But Alberta officials said the contradiction shows
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The federal minister of public safety said himself
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that he doesn't think the police can properly enforce the program
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and acknowledged that the Ontario Provincial Police
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith had already promised
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and fight the Liberals' gun confiscation scheme.
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will require a permit from the justice minister,
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that her province is within its jurisdictional right
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We're working right now on what a legislative framework
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for an Alberta firearms license would look like.
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because property and civil rights are our jurisdiction.
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to fight against federal overreach of Bill C-69,