Alberta would face exodus if it separates, poll suggests; a bogus ruling of ‘continuing genocide’ in Canada; and more

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith meets with Quebec Premier Christine Frechette in Quebec City on June 3, 2026. Photo by Francis Vachon for National Post

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It’s Thursday, June 4. Here are the top stories we’re following today.

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Fewer than half of Albertans say they would stay in a newly independent province: poll

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According to the poll, 39 per cent of respondents said they would “continue to live in my new independent country” in the case of separation, while 38 per cent said they would move elsewhere in Canada. Nineteen per cent said they weren’t sure, and the remaining two per cent said they would move to another country altogether.

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A screenshot of the The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal’s website. Photo by permanentpe­oplestribunal.org

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Terry Newman: Don’t take verdict of ‘continuing genocide’ on Canada’s Indigenous seriously

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“Many Canadian media outlets reported the story uncritically, treating the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal’s non-binding ruling as major news,” Newman writes. She calls it proof that some outlets readily “publish the words of activist groups as unquestioned truth without providing balanced information to the public.”

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A Statistics Canada building in Ottawa. The agency oversees the federal census. Photo by TONY CALDWELL/Postmedia

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In-person census visit faces backlash: ‘Taxpayers shouldn’t be footing the bill for bureaucrats to … knock on doors’

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Thousands of enumerators have been hired across Canada to follow up with households that have not yet completed the census. It “allows us to identify dwellings that are unoccupied, that may have been missed by the initial rounds of census communications or have been improperly identified or classified,” Statistics Canada says.

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Two men have been convicted of assault causing bodily harm in an encounter that started with a dispute over a weight bench in a B.C. gym Photo by Adobe Stock

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‘Some sort of machoism took over’: Weight bench dispute triggers B.C. gym assault

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After both sides reported the matter to staffers, the two convicted men “could have easily extricated themselves,” the judge wrote. “Instead of leaving or waiting for (the victim) to go up the stairs, the two accused ultimately laid a beating on him.”

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Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during question period in the House of Commons in Ottawa, June 3, 2026. Photo by Blair Gable/Postmedia

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FIRST READING: Immigration has been artificially juicing Canadian GDP the whole time

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“When weighing the growth of the Canadian economy against the outsized growth of the Canadian population, the country has already been in a ‘per-capita recession’ for much of the last four years,” Tristin Hopper argues.

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