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With Alberta potentially staring down the barrel of a separation referendum, a new independence group is now touring Saskatchewan urging residents to join them.

Over the last three weeks, the Saskatchewan Prosperity Project has conducted 10 town halls in churches, civic centres and banquet rooms, all of them advertised with the slogan of “what would an Independent Saskatchewan look like?”

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According to the group’s Facebook page, turnout hasn’t been bad, at least by the standards of wintertime Prairie political meet-ups. A gathering in Saskatoon reportedl

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