EDMONTON — Alberta’s bill lowering the bar for a separation referendum has spurred a First Nation, which straddles the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary, to push ahead with a legal challenge against the ...

Another lawyer representing the community, Michael Marchen, said the sovereignty act is an effective derogation of Onion Lake ...

The First Nation filed a statement of claim in 2022, but lawyer Robert Hladun says the community put it on pause, hoping for ...

Initially filed in December, 2022, the First Nation claims Premier Danielle Smith’s Alberta Sovereignty within a United ...

A First Nation whose land spans the Alberta-Saskatchewan border says Alberta's "growing separatist agenda" has spurred it to revive a more than two-year-old lawsuit against the province's Sovereignty ...

A Cree Nation near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border is pushing ahead with a lawsuit against the Alberta government, arguing ...

Onion Lake Cree Nation (OLCN) is demanding the Alberta government respond to its lawsuit over the Alberta Sovereignty Within ...

Chief Henry Lewis of Onion Lake Cree Nation (OLCN) addresses the crowd during a press conference on Thursday, May 15, 2025, ...

The Onion Lake Cree Nation says it is going ahead with a challenge to the province’s sovereignty legislation in response to separatist rhetoric, which it says threatens treaty rights ...

The largely conservative province may hold a referendum on separating from the nation in 2026, according to its premier.

Premier Danielle Smith still maintained the regulations will harm the affordability and reliability of Alberta’s electricity grid, which is currently powered largely by natural gas. Smith, who invoked ...