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Why Alberta's separatist movement is growing  

This week, a separatist group in Alberta announced that they have more than enough signatures to put an independence referendum on the ballot this fall.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with CBC News producer Jason Markusoff about why some people in the western province want to leave Canada and why their movement is growing.

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