It's the biggest Alberta separatist account on the internet. It has links to a movement leader

The account Rise of Alberta is anonymous and drives four times as much engagement as the next most popular account.

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The most influential social media account on Alberta separatism is called Rise of Alberta, and it has ties to independence leader Keith Wilson. (CBC News Graphics)

One of the most influential voices on Alberta separatism is not a politician or even a clearly-identified person at all, but a combination social media account and merchandise line that is among the independence movement’s breakout stars.

The RiseOfAlberta account was created in the spring of 2025 and describes itself as “accelerating Alberta’s journey towards independence.” Since then it has amassed almost 100,000 X followers with a firehose of shareable clips and AI-generated memes about Alberta.

“They’ll depict, for example, eastern Canadians as very bureaucratic, government loving people, whereas Albertans are these Wild West people that hate government and love building,” says Chris Ross, a senior analyst at the Media Ecosystem Observatory, a research initiative that studies Canada’s online world and recently released a report into the dominance of separatist influencers.

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