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You keep showing up!
Red Deer and Medicine Hat keep showing up week after week to protest. They are on Week 28!
Medicine Hat - Saturday
Address TransCanada Way/13th Ave. Time 10:30 - 11:30 am
Red Deer - Saturday
Address Adriana LaGrange’s Office on the corner of 202-5913 50 Ave, Red Deer,
Time 10:30 - 11:30
Forever Canada Petitions are Live
If you signed up to collect signatures, be patient; they are getting to that as quickly as they can. They have 90 days to collect the signatures. Let’s show the UCP and the rest of Canada that Albertans want to stay in Canada. Update - 20,000 Albertans have signed up to be canvassers. We can do this!
Keep checking Facebook as more locations are coming up. There is a permanent one at the Kingsway Legion in Edmonton-
https://kingswaylegion.ca/
https://www.elections.ab.ca/citizen-initiative-petition-issued/
Edmonton Forever Canadian Petition Signing.
Red Deer
You can sign at the Farmer’s Market every Saturday morning from 8 am - 12:30 pm.
We have been reposting locations on our Facebook page as they come up.
Upcoming Events
Things are starting to happen! Remember the 3.5% rule? Be part of the change. What can you do to “Make Some Good Trouble?”
To sign up to be a canvasser for Forever Canada, there is a link in the document. https://www.elections.ab.ca/citizen-initiative-petition-issued/
August 22, 2025, at 6 pm, Location: the band shell on the Legislature grounds.
Drown Out Sean Feucht Day Poster on Facebook August 22, @ 6pm, at the Alberta Legislature Grounds.
Fort McMurray, August 26, 2025. We will update the location when we know it. Mark your calendars if you can attend. Doors open at 5 pm for the Alberta Next Panel.
September 6, 2025, the Alberta Separatists are planning another day of flag-waving and banners on overpasses. We can let them know that we are Canadians Forever. We will post when and where these will be happening once we know. This last Saturday, they were on the 112 Ave/Wayne Gretzky overpass. A convoy of Canadians and Indigenous elders made a few passes to let them know they were on Treaty Six Territory and that we are all Canadians. Let’s make Some Good Trouble. (They are also having pop ups)
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 - Warburg/Pembina Surface Rights Group meets on the 2nd Tuesday of each month. It is well worth the trip and time to meet Carl, who is an expert on all things regarding gas wells on farms in the area. Mark Dorin and a special guest from the Alberta Government will be there to talk about the Government’s plan to address the abandoned oil and gas well situation.
TOWN HALLS - ABR is hitting the road.
Thursday, September 11, 2025, ABR will be holding a town hall in Sherwood Park to outline what a recall entails and to meet Resistors who want to actively support recalls. Stay tuned for more details.
Monday, September 15, 2025, ABR will be holding a town hall in Lethbridge at the SAEA Multicultural Association, 421 6 Avenue S. @ 7 pm. Coffee’s On.
Change of date = NDP is having their Better Together town hall on the 25th, so we moved our event to:
Tuesday, September 23, 2025, ABR will be holding a town hall in Calgary. We would love to meet you and create a community in your constituency to recall your MLA if you feel they are not meeting the needs of your community.
For environmental and activist information in the Calgary area check out Gravity Wells weekly Substack at:
They have changed the messaging on the link for the Alberta Next Panel:
Alberta Next | 2026 Vote: Have Your Say
Real change starts with you. Let your voice be heard at Alberta.ca/next. Alberta may hold a referendum in 2026. Help decide what’s on it. (Alberta Government messaging)
The Alberta Next Panel conversations are based on the Free Alberta Strategy authored by Barry Cooper, Derek From, and Rob Anderson (Danielle Smith’s Chief of Staff): https://www.freealbertastrategy.com/the_strategy
The next town halls are:
Fort McMurray on August 26 - Protest planned. See the info above. See the link below. There is no official protest planned, but we can stand on public land and bring our signs, our noise makers, and let them know we want a strong United Canada with an Alberta that looks after its citizens.
Lloydminster on August 27
Medicine Hat on September 2 (Protest planned) - I missed this for several weeks.
Lethbridge on September 11th
Airdrie on September 15th
Grand Prairie on September 17th
Calgary on September 29th
Online October 1st and 22nd
The links will be live on the website 2 weeks before each town hall.
Here are the links for the two completed town halls.
You have to watch all 6 videos that are on the survey page. You have 15 minutes to ask questions or make statements about each topic. Each speaker gets 45 seconds (if you are against the message). If you are for the message, it’s the moderator's choice.
You can sign up here to attend if you want to see what it is all about.
The NDP is launching a “Better Together” series of town halls this summer:
Red Deer on August 27th
Edmonton on August 28th
Calgary on September 9th
Airdrie on September 11th
Register now for Red Deer and Edmonton:
https://www.albertandpcaucus.ca/events/better-together-summer (They sold out Lethbridge!)
Campaigns:
Join the Recall For Change|AB Resistance? Join us here.
Want to lead a recall campaign? Reach out to recallforchange@gmail.com.
Are you a research/writing/social media person who wants to promote the recall campaigns? Sign up to volunteer your way here.
We are looking for people who would like to drop literature or to door-knock. Getting information out there is vital as we face Alberta’s next plan for town halls. Sign up here.
Speakers Series:
We are taking some time off in July. Look for us in August.
Procurement Scandal:
If you want everything to come out from the Procurement Scandal and want to donate to Athana, go here: Fundraiser for Athana Mentzelopoulos by Nancy Scott: Medicine Hat Grassroots group for integrity & justice
Events in Edmonton and Calgary:
Reminder, it is Festival Season, so check out the links for some fun things to do with friends and family.
What can you do to make some “Good Trouble” this week? Check out:
Calgary and Area
Southern Alberta
Edmonton and Area
Government of Alberta - lists multicultural dates in their online calendar.
Miscellaneous
If you would like to know what is going on in Alberta, you can find our Substack here: https://substack.com/@abresistance?utm_source=user-menu
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Everyone who is able, please join the protest to stop hate groups like Sean Feucht from spreading his grotesque message while he faces allegations of spiritual, emotional, & psychological abuse as well as financial impropriety in Texas & California. I can't believe we are having this happen in Alberta, Canada. West Kelowna B.C. stood up to this hate group They said NOT in our backyard..