{"id":587710,"date":"2026-04-07T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/587710\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:27:07","slug":"hearing-on-injunction-filed-by-first-nation-to-stop-alberta-separation-to-begin-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/587710\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing on injunction filed by First Nation to stop Alberta separation to begin today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON \u2014 A First Nation in Alberta will be in court today seeking to shut down a petition urging the province to quit Confederation.<\/p>\n<p>EDMONTON \u2014 A First Nation in Alberta will be in court today seeking to shut down a petition urging the province to quit Confederation.<\/p>\n<p>The Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is in Edmonton asking a Court of King\u2019s Bench judge to suspend the petition campaign on the grounds First Nations\u2019 consent is required first.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleging a failure by Alberta, Canada and the province&#8217;s chief electoral officer to uphold treaty rights.<\/p>\n<p>A group named Stay Free Alberta is collecting signatures to qualify for a referendum on Alberta leaving Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Danielle Smith\u2019s government has said if they get enough names, the question will be put to a vote.<\/p>\n<p>Stay Free Alberta says it has already collected more than the 178,000 signatures required to trigger the vote with a month to go before it must submit the names to Elections Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 7, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 A First Nation in Alberta will be in court today seeking to shut down a petition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-587710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}