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For weeks, posters and stickers across Ottawa advertising the anti-immigration group Dominion Society of Canada — which is calling for mass deportations of millions of people — have been generating complaints of racism and white nationalism online, to police and to the city. But Ottawa police say the posters and stickers reported so far do not constitute hate crimes, and the group's chair and founder Daniel Tyrie said the recruitment campaign is not going to stop. "Posters and stickers are only the beginning. Ottawa residents should brace themselves," Tyrie told CBC News in an email last week. "Those demanding that we stop recruiting should get used to disappointment. We are organizing, we are growing, and we are not going away. "The Dominion Society is a registered non-profit corporation based in Ottawa, established in 2025. It had rented a virtual office at the Château Laurier hotel near Parliament Hill from the company Regus until September, when it moved under unclear circumstances to another virtual office at 222 Queen St. The group has been organizing postering campaigns across the country since its founding last year.

On Monday, Albertans vote on whether to stay in Canada or hold another binding referendum on quitting Canada. If the vote goes as polls suggest, a majority of Albertans will mark an X to stay in Confederation, and Premier Danielle Smith has said if that’s so, she expects everyone to accept it and move on. Leaders of the independence movement contest that. And political watchers are divided about whether separation — previously a fringe sentiment — will now be a prominent, permanent feature of Alberta’s political landscape, as in Quebec. Julian Castro-Rea, a political-science professor at the University of Alberta who studies the separation debates in Quebec and Alberta, believes as long as Alberta feels alienated from the Canadian capital — feeling that Ottawa benefits from Alberta’s resource economy without giving back — the movement will have fuel. “Even if the referendum is lost, the westernization will still be around, because it’s kind of a way which, traditionally, Albertans have related to the rest of Canada,” says Castro-Rea, who believes western alienation may remain indefinitely. Story continues below advertisement