My Strange Canada Day with the Alberta Separatists

“Better-adjusted people would have spent Canada Day going camping or floating on a river. Instead, I rented a Nissan Sentra, slapped on a cowboy hat and drove down to Mirror, Alberta, for a separatist rally that checked all my boxes for weird, far-right esoterica.” Jeremy Appel writes. Jeremy is an Edmonton-based independent journalist who writes the Orchard on Substack, where this article originally appeared. Published July 4, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/07/04/My-Strange-Canada-Day-Alberta-Separatists/