Alberta's Choice: Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

The Canadian province of Alberta is holding a referendum today on raising the question of separating from Canada.

After being used as a funding source by the eastern elites because of the province's oil, especially by the Liberal Party.  Albertans have not exactly getting much in the way of gratitude back nor much say in how the country is going, and a lot of Albertans are fed up with confederation.

So far, exit polls show leaving to be leading - and an affirmative result will lead to a second vote on actually leaving.

Will Liberal PM Carney and the Liberals accept the results of the referendum?

Will Alberta actually vote to leave Canada? 

We shall see. 

CFB Wainwright Tragedy

A serious tragedy in Alberta, Canada occurred last night at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright. 

CFB Wainwright is a very large training base for the Canadian Forces and NATO with lots of room for maneuvering and exercises.

The most recent live fire exercise there has resulted in a major tragedy. 

Global News: At least 7 dead, dozens injured in explosion and fire at CFB Wainwright: Sources

An explosion, whose origin is not yet confirmed, possibly from an errant munition hitting a gas well or gas pipeline during a live fire exerciser, then caused a rapidly moving grass fire fueled by 60 mile per hour winds.

The fire killed seven soldiers and wounded dozens more.

Medical reinforcements were sent in by parachute drop to the site and nearby hospitals have initiated mass casualty protocols.

In short, it is a terrible tragedy and we'll likely know more as to what occurred.  

For now, here's to hoping the fires are brought under control, and the wounded make as full and complete recoveries as possible.

About Those Wildfires In Alberta And The Rest Of Canada

As usual, the left, is blaming it on climate change.

It's more likely however that the scale of this fire is based on both poorly-thought our leftist (greenie) environmentalist forestry management polices and budget cuts to wildlife fire-fighting capabilities by the socialist NDP party while they were in charger of Alberta.

Under the NDP in 2016, they cut the firefighting budget by $15, most of it to the air tanker program. They sure could have used those funds for this set of wildfires couldn't they?

A further problem is Alberta's and Canada's lack of appropriate forest management and thinning of brush and other combustibles in forests.

It's a little trite and too easy to blame the wildfires on climate change.  Instead, their extent is more due to a deliberate policy to not properly manage the forests to reduce the chances of a massive wildfires, combined with deliberate budget cuts to spending for firefighters to contain the wildfire.