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On Saturday, I was at Calgary City Hall to cover the weekly “March For Freedom” rally, where several thousand people showed up to protest Calgary’s coronavirus restrictions imposed by their tyrannical Mayor Naheed Nenshi. Little did they know, it wouldn’t take long for Alberta Premier Jason Kenney to follow Nenshi’s lead. On Tuesday, Kenney announced province-wide gathering limits and business closures in our already economically battered province. Protesters met at Calgary’s City Hall before marching through the city’s downtown core, then reconvening back at the plaza for speeches. The protest was technically illegal, but those in attendance were undeterred — despite Calgary police sending out $1,200 fines to those in attendance last week. Click here to watch my full report and find out why these brave Canadians risked getting a fine to go to the protest. Alberta was the last bastion of freedom in this country until Premier Kenney caved to political pressure and betrayed Albertans with the same copy-cat policies devastating every other province in the country. If this is happening here in Alberta, what hope is left for the rest of Canada? Yours truly, Sheila Gunn Reid |