In 2020, Cargill's beef processing plant in High River, Alberta, was the site of the largest industrial COVID-19 outbreak in North America. More than 950 workers — nearly half the plant's workforce — tested positive. Two workers and four close contacts died, and dozens were hospitalized. Six years on, this report is the first independent investigation into how the outbreak was allowed to grow to the scale it did — and why it should never have.

Five out of the 10 questions in Alberta’s 2026 referendum are directly related to immigration. Why immigration? What does it have to do with separatism? Built around unsupported claims, fabricated terms, and spurious logic, the “immigration questions” draw on racist tropes taken directly from the separatists’ playbook. This report shows that immigration is not a “distraction” from the issues of separatism on the ballot; instead, it is integral to the separatist project.