The Critical Compass Podcast - February 28, 2026


Middle Fingers & Honks： The Truth of Collecting Independence Signatures at an Edmonton Costco


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4 minutes

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836

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2

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Misogyny

1

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Hate speech

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On this episode of the Critical Compass, we sit down with Hottie and Trevor with Stay Free Alberta to discuss their campaign to free our nation and become sovereign. They are out in the freezing cold collecting signatures outside of a Costco on the west side of the city of Canada.

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00:00:00.000 hey guys mike from the critical compass here we're with hottie and trevor with stay free
00:00:19.120 alberta and they're doing god's work this afternoon they're out here in the freezing
00:00:23.920 cold and the blowing snow and they're collecting signatures outside of a costco on the west side
00:00:29.840 of the city free independent in alberta and and harry how's it been going so far today oh it's been
00:00:35.960 amazing we've been putting in the work collecting signatures we're working tirelessly to free our
00:00:41.720 nation and become sovereign oh yeah and uh and you've been getting some a good amount today yes
00:00:47.520 yes absolutely good i've been getting people just driving here putting pulling their car right in
00:00:52.220 the driveway wanting to sign they're just done they're done with auto as a rule past 120 years
00:00:58.360 yeah perfect and uh trevor you were telling me that you guys have in addition to a few signatures
00:01:05.080 you guys have been unfortunately getting a few uh uh middle fingers and some uh unpleasant gestures
00:01:10.580 yep yeah for sure what would you say the ratio looks like today so far oh about half and a half
00:01:15.860 yeah hey okay that's not actually as bad as i thought it might be depends on how hard you push
00:01:22.320 people right so i suppose yeah do you get a little bit of uh some good uh some good honks of support as
00:01:28.840 well a few yeah could use a few more right just to keep the warmth in your belly right yeah yeah and
00:01:35.180 hadhi i'm i'm actually maybe fascinated a little bit with you because you you are a similar uh nationality
00:01:42.080 to me we're both uh lebanese by uh ancestry and this movement oftentimes gets painted as like uh
00:01:49.040 as a bad movement yeah like a racist or white national movement it is what it is we've seen
00:01:53.700 we've seen how governments and abroad like lebanon where you have 21 different political parties and
00:01:59.800 the corruption abroad here you have three different three and two main different political parties
00:02:05.160 but it's very easy to catch the corruption i mean come on people ottawa's robin us blind i mean
00:02:11.820 what do you guys want agenda 2030 yeah 15 minute cities yeah eating the bugs mark carney he's a
00:02:19.540 globalist he doesn't want the western albertans we need all to we're done ottawa got upon accordingly
00:02:25.420 that's it we're done yeah it is what it is and it's funny you say that too because the the amount of
00:02:30.620 immigrants that we see at these events who say the same thing who have seen the same corruption in 0.99
00:02:35.360 their countries and and the average canadian just hasn't seen it yet no and and the thing is with
00:02:39.820 the immigrants hey listen i'm an immigrant and i'm fine but the thing is it's it's everywhere
00:02:44.140 between bringing in immigrants and and invading a country with yeah you have danielle smith saying
00:02:50.480 she wants to bring another five million more immigrants and we're a population of 4.7 million
00:02:54.960 yeah you know something a picture speaks i used to like danielle smith but the thing is a picture 0.65
00:02:59.800 speaks that when she goes takes photo offs of mark carney that picture speaks a thousand words brother
00:03:05.460 i'm sick how you're doing this because i want freedom for my family i don't want to be
00:03:09.380 i don't want to go down what another 365 times four 1200 more days and what are we going to be in
00:03:17.420 communism yeah like by 2030 is just days away we can't do this anymore that's it so it's now or never
00:03:23.840 right yeah and and trevor what brings you what brings you personally out here today what what's
00:03:29.920 brought you to this movement maybe broader yeah i guess uh for me it was the election last election
00:03:35.500 where uh you know i i realized i don't know if canada will ever swing conservative again if they
00:03:41.700 can swing i think it's 30 points in a matter of i think it was two months three months yeah yeah
00:03:47.440 uh i kind of realized woke i would say i woke up to the reality of canada and where where it's going
00:03:55.980 yeah fair enough well boys stay warm out here thank god bless you again for what you're doing
00:04:03.040 and uh god bless you yeah and how long are you guys going to be out here real well yeah are you
00:04:08.240 are you coming out here multiple days too yeah yeah yeah anytime i can talk to somebody to sign you
00:04:12.820 know what even before i had this i was talking to people i'll even send my dad to sign for this
00:04:17.740 right before he even became a canvas here whoever i talk to make sure to sign free alberta from this
00:04:23.700 nightmare it's dystopia you don't have the east does not have anything planned good for us
00:04:28.460 we're done that's it beauty thank you boys thank you cheers god bless you cheers