DEMOCRACY WINS BIG OVER MAGA IN ALBERTA !!!

Hey there, Midas Canada viewers, Resisters from all over, Charlie Angus here.This is a good news story.You know, I know that day after day, week after week, it feels like you're just slogging in the endless terrain of chaos and rage and the acts of the monsters who never seem to retreat.Well, guess what?We're putting the run on them.And in Canada, The forward trench in the fight for democracy is in Alberta, and Alberta scored a big one this week.

The people came forward.The people stepped up.The coal petition to ban the strip mining of the Rocky Mountains to help out Australian billionaires.Well, guess what?The people stepped up and they've spoken, and that's thrown a big one.big wrench in the plans of the mega -government of Daniel Smith, and people are on the move.

Jenny Yeremey, our voice on the ground in Calgary, is going to talk about all the steps that are happening in terms of the fight for democracy at the grassroots level.big gathering of the Blackfoot Confederacy that people are being invited to to speak up and stand up against the MAGA regime.And guess what?The wheels are coming off the bus and the MAGA crew are turning on Daniel Smith.Yeah, it's a good week for democracy and we're going to check it out.So let's go to Calgary and talk with Jenny.

Hey there, Midas Canada viewers and resistors from all over.This is going to be a good episode that we're talking about.You know, it's sometimes I know you guys are thinking, oh my God, more trouble all the time, more bad news.We're getting wins.We're getting wins on the ground all the time.And right now, on the ground in Alberta, this has been a spectacular week.

Corb Lund's petition to stop the strip mining in the region.Mountains for coal, people stepped up.The numbers are there.We're going to look at that.We're also going to look at the Blackfoot Confederacy is stepping up.Daniel Smith is losing her mind.

She's threatening to throw indigenous leaders in jail.She's fighting with her own separatist base.There's well, there's just so much to talk about.We've got to bring Jenny Jeremy in here to break down what's been going down on the front lines in the fight for democracy in Alberta.Jenny, thanks so much for being back on.

Thanks for having me back, Charlie.Like you said, it's been a really great week in Alberta here.Pretty excited to talk about what's going on.

I mean, you've been on the front lines of this fight to get people active, to get people signed up, to use people power and the Water Not Coal petition to stop the strip mining in the Rockies was such a pivotal campaign.And I mean, I know that behind the scenes there was a time when people worried if we were going to get that numbers, the numbers, but the numbers have come in big.Can you explain how the campaign rolled out and where we go from here?

Yeah, so we needed that 5 % number, so the 177 ,000 people signing on in the dead of winter with a lot of petition fatigue.I can tell you myself, it's been more than 10 months of petitioning.I feel like my petition shackles have finally been broken.but persevered.I think there was a big sort of ramp up towards the end.I know even for myself, I was aiming for initially 150 and ended up with 270 signatures.

So I'm quite pleased with that outcome for myself.And yeah, I think it's just a really, another strong community coming together.I had a great conversation with Gil McGowan recently, and he helped me recognize that we've, although it doesn't feel - Gil McGowan's head of the Federation of Labor, right?Yeah, thank you for pointing that out.The Alberta Federation of Labour, and he just ran the Fight Back Now rallies.in Alberta here on May 29th, which were a spectacular success in amongst themselves.

But the comment he made is we had a workers' movement.So that was back in 2024, I'd say.The workers were all on strike.It was a year of new negotiations.And they were successful in pushing back and getting good support.uh results from from what they needed for for their um for their contracts and then after that was the forever canadian movement and as you have rightly pointed out it was the largest movement in canadian history so that was another group of people that came into the to the fight to the fray if you will then the recall movements happened and that was an additional group of people i can tell you there's very little overlap between the forever canadian group recall group And now we have the Water Not Coal petition, which is now an environmental movement.

So it's really interesting to see.And I forgot to add the RECALL movement was really a professional movement.There was a lot of teachers, professionals like myself that were involved in that movement.So it's just really interesting to see and understand the accumulation of people, not necessarily feeling the momentum when you're in the moment and doing the work.but to see this accumulation of people that care about Alberta, care about a better story for our province and are willing to do the work.It's been remarkable.

And I know I just had a meeting with, or I was at the last day of signing here in Calgary and speaking with some of the organizers that were deeply involved.And they were saying how grateful they are for this effort.Two of the women that were at a table with me had never met before and they're neighbors.And now they're like, you know, fast friends.And I feel the same with all the recall people that I've met in my community, too.So, yeah, it's a really interesting thing to feel success in amongst the insanity in this province.

Well, you know, what you're describing, Jenny, and this has been the experience that I, I mean, where I learned my place.you know, fighting toxic waste and garbage dumps.It's like when you have all these isolated groups, they can't win on their own.But when they start realizing what they have in common, you build these connections that you never thought were possible before.And then afterwards, of course, we're connected.And on our region, it was the rural people learning they had to actually go in to the res and meet with the indigenous and that we're Urban environmentalists were not going to be the enemies of the blue collar workers.

We were all trying to save the groundwater.And I think the coal petition is a really fascinating one because it brings the crossover of all these various people who've been organizing and fighting for so long against this maple mega agenda, but the symbolism of strip mining Rocky Mountains.I mean, you have to be a particular kind of malevolent fool, I think, to believe that people in Alberta are going to go along with that.So you're bringing out ranchers, you're bringing out like country singers like Cor Blund and urban environmentalists and people worried about the water and indigenous.Talk to me a bit about how broad, broad based that movement was.

Yeah, as Corp rightly says, this movement started from ranchers, from the people most directly impacted from this effort.Not a typical left wing agenda, you know, these are people that are generally conservative, but understand the importance of water security and water cleanliness and the need for them to sustain their businesses and every business, every one of us downstream.So just the recognition of that responsibility and then to stay in this for so long.Because again, this has been a battle of six years we've been at this.Six years we've been saying no to these coal mines, understanding that this is extraction for billionaires in Australia, the coal isn't even going to be used here locally, and we're just going to be left with themess that we know that will never get cleaned up.

So yeah, it's been incredible to see the range of people involved in this.There were many separatists that signed the Water Not Cold petition.There were separatists that signed the Recall petition.So it's really interesting to see people coming so close in some ways and so far apart in others.But like you said, finding those common things that we need, water is one of those things, it really does unite us.

Speaking of the separatist referendums, we have launched the call for Anton Bugman, the Foreign Interference Commissioner, to investigate the role of foreign money.It's been funny.I had one of the very, very right -wing publications come out to monitor my press conference.And then afterwards, I think they were kind of struck by what I said.They said, is it possible we could talk later?I did talk radio in Alberta this week.

They were pretty up on this and were not giving me a hard time.I think the issue of foreign interference is a real concern.But I'm also concerned that this referendum is moving ahead twice.It's been shut down as being unconstitutional for attacking Indigenous rights.We now see that the Blackfoot Confederacy are stepping up and Alberta is going to be a big rally if you could talk about that.But also Danielle Smith I think is starting to lose it.

She's starting to now threaten Indigenous leaders and she's going to be throwing people in jail.I mean this looks like I would say this is the voice of someone who's watching the wheels come off her coalition bus and she's turning and attacking.But talk to me about what you're what you're expecting with the Blackfoot Confederacy stepping up at this time.

Yeah.So this Sunday at the confluence in Calgary from 1 to 3 p .m., the Blackfoot Confederacy chiefs will bea rally.As it happens, other treaty leaders will be in town for some meetings that they're hosting at the Blackfoot Inn from Monday through Wednesday.

I plan on attending those as well.All discussing upholding the treaties, what it means to be in relationship with the land and understanding our responsibilities.Standing together in solidarity with them is what I'm picturing.We're all going to be wearing red and we're all going to be, I'm assuming, doing a march as well.But really looking forward to standing with the chiefs, understanding the severity of what they're facing, as you said, potentially jail time.That's what the premier is going.

And you're right.And I think there is an obvious coming off the rails point that we're reaching here.Smith came out and announced that they finally know that the separatism will cost us $400 billion.Why is this news to them?I don't understand.And again, as you've pointed out, Charlie, the Alberta Prosperity Project had already talked about getting a $500 billion loan from the US just last year.

So this is not secret.This is not unknown to us, despite the fact that she's telling us now.And then also the referendum itself.Again, a referendum about a referendum.As we heard from Thomas, this is not a real question.It shouldn't be going ahead.

I think that's what the chiefs are ultimately trying to do is to stop that question from reaching a ballot.I hope they're successful in it.But if it does, it's going to cost us somewhere between $20 to $100 million just to carry out this referendum.They're talking about something like 30 million ballots, because each of these questions are going to have their own individual ballot.I saw the premier herself calling on people to vote yes for the nine questions, the nine unconstitutional questions just last week.It's just a such a sad place for somebody who grew up in Alberta and, and, you know, really thought that we were not this to see our premier coming out and promoting racism and promoting division and promoting blame and scapegoating rather than facing the real issues that she's creating.

Healthcare, disaster, education under attack.The left seeing that this separatist agenda is just destroying our economy, and the right seeing that this isn't actually achieving anything.So what Professor Duane Bratt of the Mount Royal University said last week is that he's expecting that this referendum, if it goes ahead, is going to be a test of the UCP party itself.So that's what this has now become.It is really putting their party on the line, which is, let's call it what it is, they're a separatist party, they did not run on that agenda, but they have exercised it since the moment they've been elected, their first thing being the what is it, the Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act.None of us want it.

So again, they are operating outside of what they said that they were running on.They've lied to Albertans to get here and they continue to lie and that lie, those lies are really starting to take them off the rails now.

You know, Jenny, the one thing I want to say as someone who's traveled so many times to Alberta, what I could never figure out is I've never been in a place with so much positive energy, can -do spirit, people looking out for each other.And then like the worst political dregs on the planet get sent to Ottawa or get in the legislature.And I think it's held back.All these people that get elected, they're complaining that they're not being heard or respected.It's like, it's hard to respect people who play such dumb political games when there's so much potential.But I would say that, you know,

thing of the wheels coming off the bus now that she's having to admit how much it's going to cost, that people are getting more and more angry in her separatist base that she's fed for so long are now turning on her.What it tells me is that if people stay the course, democracy wins.So, you know, you've been on the front lines.I know it's tiring.I know it's been one campaign after another, but maybe, just maybe, we're going to get through this and Alberta will be the light for the rest of the country and maybe North America about how you stand up to these gangsters.

Yeah, thank you, Charlie.On the campaign note, I just want to mention I am joining a new campaign, so public interest Alberta.

Okay, well, you're joining now.

So Public Interest Alberta is doing a Together No campaign.So this is a together we say no to these unconstitutional questions that are on the referendum.So it's gonna, we're gonna make it as fun as we possibly can over the summer.We're talking about barbecues, just hanging out at events, letting people know.And then of course, in September, we'll ramp up the efforts and make sure people get out to vote no and vote for to remain.So it's going to be a, and we need support.

This is a public effort.So I'll give Charlie the link for you to help join.

We will get you back on and talk about, because I think with all these questions and Daniel Smith is going to be trying to get people confused and some people stay home.And that's where we run into trouble.And if I can get back to Alberta at any time to help out, I'll pack my bags.So anyways, Jenny, thanks so much.Let's keep this conversation going, because this is the front line in the fight for democracy.

Thank you, Charlie.I'll talk to you soon.

Thank you.Well, thanks so much for that, Jenny.We've been getting amazing responses for all of the things that we've been doing.The interview we did with the Cuban ambassador has done so well.well.You know, our national media give enormous amount of time for the likes of Pete Hoogster to shoot his mouth off.

We believe it might as Canada that it's important to hear from the people who are being affected and having the ambassador for Cuba on our program to talk about the realities in a very straightforward and factual way certainly resonated with viewers all over the world.Loyalist Canadian says Canadians have a long -standing friendly relationship with Cuba.We must help them before the US comes for Canada.Boycott all things US.And Wyckoff writes, my heart breaks for the beautiful people of Cuba.Make no mistake, this will happen here if we do nothing to help them.

Thank you, Charlie.We stand with Cuba, yes.Defend the truth.And absolutely, we know that if the Don Roe doctrine can play out in Cuba to break the sovereignty and destroy the independence of that nation, they're going to use it here.Maria Margarito Bravo writes, sama brise le cour.My late father, who had emigrated from Madrid during the Franco era, worked his whole life at Radio -Canada International.

He translated and announced Montreal's international news on his own account for all of Latin America.It was often their source of information.Wow.Merci, Maria.Her father had left Spain under the threats of Franco, worked as a voice for Radio Canada International, being the voice for people in Latin America.And as for my call for the Foreign Interference Commissioner Anton Bogman to launch an investigation into foreign interference and American money possibly being used in Canada, had an amazing response.

Carlos writes, I'm glad Charlie you saw the whole picture.Alberta would be the 51st state that Trump is looking for or any other way he can get it.Where's ourspy agency?They should be investigating the serious interference into Canada's internal affairs.This is a serious threat to Canada.

And Ali writes, morning Charlie and company.That was explosive and impactful.Charlie, your powerful words sounded out of the alarm, sounded out the alarm of the who, what, where, when, and why of foreign interference by bad actors.We need an investigation now.not later for goodness sakes.Too much is at stake.

Well, we totally agree.And from Texas, Cool Breeze Anthony.Now, do they really have cool breezes down in Texas?I don't know.But Cool Breeze Anthony writes, Charlie, watching from our home in Dallas, Texas with love.Well, lots of love to our friends south of the border.

The Midas Canada Town Hall is June 17th in Halton doing the Midas Canada Town Hall at the 707 Unifor Hall in Oakville.Get your tickets online June 18th in London The Marconi Club, same thing.Get your tickets online.August 13th, we're doing fascism and other F words.Me and Laura Babcock, the dynamic duo of democracy at the Niagara West Secondary School on August 13th.We're raising money for the Niagara Sunflower Festival for Ukrainian Relief.

Going to be in Prince Edward Island, August 21st to 23rd with the Institute for Bioregional Studies and the PEI Farm Center Association.September 17th, St. John's, Newfoundland, can't wait! to get back to the rock for Midas Canada Town Hall.September 19th in Orillia, Midas Canada Town Hall.My band Grievous Angels coming down to the Harrowsmith, Ontario to the Line Spike Festival.Check that out.It's a new festival.

They're working really hard.June 27th, 28th.Grievous Angels will be there.August 14th, we're doing an event with Strummer Fest in Waterloo.August 15th at the Cork Town in Hamilton.September 5th at Hotel Wolf Island.

Love getting back there.That's right near Kingston.Just take the ferry.You can get there and you can get back.September 6th at the Motel Chelsea in Gatineau.And I'm going to just throw another thing out there.

When the summer comes up here in Northern Ontario, I help at the local mining museum and I will be doing tours, guided tours underground in the old silver mine in Cobalt.So Canada Day I'm hosting tours.You can get your tickets by phoning the Cobalt Mining Museum and asking to get a ticket for one of the tours that I'm doing on Canada Day 705 -679 -8301 and on the 4th of July I will be doing another set of tours.I think I do two tours in the day at 10 and at 1.These spots are fill in really quickly, and I explain the history of mining, explain what it was like, and you get a real sense of what it was like to come to Canada back in the day and work in those dark, dark pits.Anyways, keep kicking in the darkness, my friends.

It's bleeding daylight.We're making ground.Thank you, Merci, and Miigwetch.