This Week In Annexation II.3 Carney and Eby -- Image via David Eby on X By Gabriel Haythornthwaite, The DNA Report With 17 days to go until the Alberta pre-annexation referendum, The DNA Report continues a second round of This Week in Annexation thanks to heavy double-barrel electioneering from Canada CEO Mark Carney as he rolled out a mega-project announcement each day either side of the Reconciliation holiday. This post covers the first Carney intervention on September 29.

A Historical Look By Gabriel Haythornthwaite, The DNA Report With 23 days until Alberta’s pre-annexation referendum, The DNA Report is engaging the fact that, prior to Herr Trump’s deranged threats to annex Canada as the ‘51st state’, the public here was largely unfamiliar with the term “annexation”. With that in mind, this note offers a sample primer on the history of annexation from ancient times until the 19th century so as to provide a basic understanding of this imperial

Trump Lends A Hand In Siccing Anger Against Immigrants By Gabriel Haythornthwaite, The DNA Report With 24 days until Alberta’s pre-annexation referendum, The DNA Report is taking a first look at the regressive ballot by reviewing the five anti-immigrant questions cooked up and launched by the Governor Smith cabinet on March 31. This review comes as Herr Trump snarled a ‘Truth Social’ statement on September 23 pushing immigrant scapegoating in Canada. The Orange Ogre’s putativ

This Week In Annexation I.2 By Gabriel Haythornthwaite, The DNA Report With 25 days to go until the Smith MAGA ballot in Alberta, The DNA Report is concluding This Week in Annexation with the last of a trifecta of troubling developments for the Trumpy far-Right. This sad episode concerns the hailed leader of the Albertan ‘separatist’ movement, Jeffrey Rath. He is the wheeling-dealing lawyer and co-founder of the Albertan Prosperity Project--the leading force for American Anne

This Week in Annexation I Danielle Smith with US ambassador Pete Hoekstra at the Calgary Stampede 2026 -- public domain By Gabriel Haythornthwaite, The DNA Report With 28 days to go until the Smith MAGA ballot, The DNA Report begins an ongoing segment, This Week In Annexation, which will feature brief round-ups of the week’s political high/lowlights in Annexation Land. This week has seen a sharp uptick in bad news stories for America North politics in the wild west of Canada.

Coca-Cola workers are on strike in Alberta and their Teamsters local as well as the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) are encouraging...

Alberta NDP leader Rachel Notley winds up 2020 by asking for everyone "to come to the table" to help craft the NDP economic recovery...

This week saw two examples of rising labour militancy, one in Alberta and one in Newfoundland. Both were met with very rapid intervention...