{"id":32915,"date":"2025-10-20T15:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/?post_type=runnymede-events&#038;p=32915"},"modified":"2025-10-20T15:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:28:10","slug":"alberta-unbound-secession-or-subversion","status":"publish","type":"runnymede-events","link":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/runnymede-events\/alberta-unbound-secession-or-subversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta Unbound: Secession or Subversion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please join the Runnymede Society\u2019s Dalhousie-Schulich Student Chapter for a debate on the constitutional justifiability of Alberta secession between Professor Bruce Pardy (Queen\u2019s) and Professor Brian Casey (Dalhousie-Schulich) on Thursday, October 30th!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alberta\u2019s separatist movement has gained momentum with the province lowering its referendum petition threshold to just 10%. Profs. Pardy and Casey will debate the resolution: \u201cAlberta\u2019s pursuit of separation from Canada is constitutionally permissible under <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reference re Secession of Quebec<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> [1998], but unjustified due to its impact on federalism and Indigenous treaty rights.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Register by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/forms.gle\/gWndm6GsL2XdVGii8\">here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":32919,"template":"","event_organizers":[130],"event_venues":[240],"library-theme":[239],"class_list":["post-32915","runnymede-events","type-runnymede-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_organizers-runnymede-society","event_venues-dalhousie-university-room-w204","library-theme-alberta-sovereignty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/runnymede-events\/32915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/runnymede-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/runnymede-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_organizers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_organizers?post=32915"},{"taxonomy":"event_venues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_venues?post=32915"},{"taxonomy":"library-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library-theme?post=32915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}