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-CP-Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she stepped in to fix a “glitch” that saw Indigenous Peoples erased from her official statement marking the province’s 121st birthday. Within an hour of sending the Alberta Day statement on Tuesday, the government sent an updated version removing the sentence including Indigenous Peoples from its English version. Smith said public servants made the move and that she urged them to revert to the original statement. “I said, ‘why don’t you just put up the original one? I thought it was fine, and so I’m not exactly sure what happened with that glitch,” she told reporters in Calgary at an unrelated announcement. “We’re just excited to be able to celebrate Alberta Day and all of the various cultures, and diaspora communities, including Indigenous Peoples, who… <\/p>\n

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-CP-Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she stepped in to fix a “glitch” that saw Indigenous Peoples erased from her official statement marking the province’s 121st birthday. Within an hour of sending the Alberta Day statement on Tuesday, the government sent an updated version removing the sentence including Indigenous Peoples from its English version. Smith said public servants made the move and that she urged them to revert to the original statement. “I said, ‘why don’t you just put up the original one? I thought it was fine, and so I’m not exactly sure what happened with that glitch,” she told reporters in Calgary at an unrelated announcement. “We’re just excited to be able to celebrate Alberta Day and all of the various cultures, and diaspora communities, including Indigenous Peoples, who... <\/p>\n

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