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Alberta Voter List Breach Probed
Coverage from The Guardian, Bow Island Commentator, and others
A separatist-linked Alberta organization, the Centurion Project, allegedly obtained and used an official provincial elector list containing personal information on roughly 2.
9 million people. Elections Alberta secured court-ordered restrictions and, alongside the RCMP and Alberta’s privacy commissioner, is investigating how a list legally provided to the Republican Party of Alberta was later shared and used. The incident has raised risks for vulnerable residents and public officials while adding political pressure to Alberta’s proposed independence referendum campaign.
The main update is a reframing of the alleged breach as a Centurion Project misuse case with a more specific trace path: officials now say the list may have been seeded with fake names, helping them connect it back to material legally given to the Republican Party of Alberta. The story also sharpens the stakes around vulnerable residents and public officials while keeping the investigation and court restrictions unchanged.
The main update is a clearer attribution chain: Elections Alberta now says the official elector list was legally given to the Republican Party of Alberta and then allegedly shared onward into the Centurion Project database. The story also adds stronger political fallout, including denial of wrongdoing by the groups involved and a new foreign-interference ruling affecting the separatist referendum effort.