{"id":724939,"date":"2026-06-09T10:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/724939\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:23:14","slug":"not-just-a-bunch-of-whiny-cowboys-at-least-four-former-conservative-mps-support-albertas-separation-from-canada-the-hill-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/724939\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Not just a bunch of whiny cowboys&#8217;: at least four former Conservative MPs support Alberta\u2019s separation from Canada &#8211; The Hill Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least four former Conservative MPs, including a former chief government whip, are backing the Oct. 19 referendum in the hopes that a majority of Albertans will support a formal vote on separation.<\/p>\n<p>To keep reading, subscribe and become a political insider.<a id=\"subLinkStoryPage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hilltimes.com\/get-a-subscription\" style=\"float: left; width: 100%; margin-bottom: 20px; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif !important;\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SUBSCRIBE NOW<\/a> Only $7.76 a week for an annual subscription. <\/p>\n<p class=\"playfair\" style=\"font-size: 11pt !important; font-weight: 600!important;  margin-top: 20px; float: left; width: 100%;  padding:; margin: 0; color: #252525;\"> Enjoy unlimited website access and the digital newspaper. <\/p>\n<p class=\"playfair\" style=\"font-size: 11pt !important; color: #000; margin: 0; float: left; font-weight: 900 !important; width: 100%;  padding: 10px 0px 0px 0px; margin: 0;\"> Cancel anytime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least four former Conservative MPs, including a former chief government whip, are backing the Oct. 19 referendum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[901,49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-724939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-alberta","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724939","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=724939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}