{"id":15181002,"date":"2026-06-26T20:46:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/letters-alberta-separatist-arguments-missing-key-details\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T12:42:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:42:45","slug":"letters-alberta-separatist-arguments-missing-key-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/letters-alberta-separatist-arguments-missing-key-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: Alberta separatist arguments missing key details"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do separatists realize that the map of Alberta will need to undergo changes if they get their way? Waterton, Banff, Jasper, and Wood Buffalo National Parks would be sliced off as they belong to Canada. Elk Island National Park is a bit tricky \u2014 it\u2019s a very small land mass in the middle of the province so perhaps the federal government would be willing to sell it to the new country of Alberta. Be prepared \u2014 it won’t be cheap. Here\u2019s another costly issue: New Canada Customs offices at every land crossing to B.C., Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan. Do people actually believe that the feds will build, staff and maintain all of this new and expensive infrastructure and not add it to Alberta\u2019s exit tab? Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: Edmonton Sun<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do separatists realize that the map of Alberta will need to undergo changes if they get their way? Waterton, Banff, Jasper, and Wood Buffalo National Parks would be sliced off as they belong to Canada. Elk Island National Park is\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15181004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15181002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edmonton"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15181002-alberta-canada-flags.jpg",1000,750,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15181002-alberta-canada-flags-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15181002-alberta-canada-flags-620x465.jpg",620,465,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15181002-alberta-canada-flags-768x576.jpg",768,576,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15181002-alberta-canada-flags-940x705.jpg",940,705,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15181002-alberta-canada-flags.jpg",1000,750,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15181002-alberta-canada-flags.jpg",1000,750,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15181002-alberta-canada-flags-998x665.jpg",998,665,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15181002-alberta-canada-flags-670x446.jpg",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15181002-alberta-canada-flags.jpg",1000,750,false],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15181002-alberta-canada-flags-510x510.jpg",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15181002-alberta-canada-flags-160x160.jpg",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15181002-alberta-canada-flags-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15181002-alberta-canada-flags-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15181002-alberta-canada-flags-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15181002-alberta-canada-flags-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/15181002-alberta-canada-flags-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"Edmonton<\/a>","tag_info":"Edmonton","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15181002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15181002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15181002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15181003,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15181002\/revisions\/15181003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15181004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15181002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15181002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15181002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}