My latest is out: Alberta wants to secede. Alberta wants to dump tailings water into the Athabasca. Alberta is threatening to arrest Chiefs who stand in the way.

Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta’s answer? A new name — Treaty 8 Sovereign Nations — and a historic alliance with the Dene Nation to defend the water all the way to the Arctic Ocean.

They were sovereign before Alberta existed. Nobody gets a vote on that.