"The Trump administration has held covert meetings with fringe separatists from Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta as a rift deepens between Washington and Ottawa."

Not very 'covert', now is it. The President mostly meets with people all day every day as part of their job.

They also meet with evil dictators that support the murder of their own people. This shouldn't be news or shocking to anyone.

Interesting. So the same side that feels there is interference in elections from nonprofits and donors within America, and that organizing protests and giving them money is somehow not allowed, also wants to use state power to interfere in the political process of allied countries.

Agent Krasnov is hard at work destroying the U.S., NATO, and everything else he can lay his hands on. Kremlin must feel ecstatic.

They're trying to do roughly the same that they did in Venezuela, enable a coup of sorts and then pretend they now own the oil.