Alberta Separation Showdown: Smith Battles Her Own Party as Referendum Looms and Parliament Returns

The battle for Alberta's future in Canada just got personal. Premier Danielle Smith publicly clashed Monday with her own UCP party president Rob Smith, who claimed the government's advertising on the upcoming independence referendum is "neutral." Smith shot back: she's not neutral — she wants Alberta to stay. "I believe that we should remain," she told reporters, even as her own Highwood constituency association — her former riding — voted to trigger a leadership...