Looks like Alberta separatists will be able to start collecting signatures for a vote on independence

This all began late Wednesday afternoon when I double-checked the official record of some jousting in the Alberta legislature between Premier Danielle Smith and NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi.

The back-and-forth happened Tuesday and I’d watched it on TV and I was just making sure the quotations from both leaders were accurate.

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It was then I ran across a snippet of the Smith-Nenshi debate I’d somehow missed jotting down.

It changed my column writing plans entirely.

You see, Nenshi spoke of “leaked documents.”

Some Alberta government paper shuffler possibly leaking confidential stuff to the NDP? No shocker there.

According to Nenshi, the leaked documents suggest the Smit

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