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KINSELLA: Alberta separatism here to stay – even if it loses

Alberta separatism will be with us for good now, even if it's defeated in the referendum

In the Spring of 1975, my family moved to Alberta.

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We took the train from Montreal. My brothers and I would look out the windows as the country sped by in the dark, wondering what lay ahead for us.

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All of us were Montreal-born Irish Catholics. We had lived outside Quebec before – a couple years in Dallas, a few more years in Kingston........

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