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Podcast Episode · Separation Anxiety: The Alberta Referendum · S1 E2 · 40m

CALGARY - With the Alberta Separatism referendum fast approaching, pro-separatist groups have launched a new campaign to entice investment dollars to their chaotic barely-planned idea for a country.

Have we been here before? As we head towards a much-discussed provincial referendum in October, let’s take a look in the rearview mirror and see how our histories can help inform the present moment. J...

The United Conservative Party decision to provide Alberta political parties with a “list of electors” with no electors listed in it for the Oct. 19 referendum vote either “demonstrates a fundamental m...

The cute but destructive rodents are criminal masterminds, easily circumventing humans’ meager defenses.

Five former Elections Alberta employees are raising “mismanagement” concerns about how Corb Lund's citizen initiative petition was validated, alleging procedures changed and that there was a lack of t...

When I first moved to Alberta, back in the Klein era, I felt like a physicist who had been exiled to a planet where the law of gravity wasn’t operative.

Podcast Episode · West of Centre · September 11 · 31m

A Special Edition with the latest updates on the snafus from Elections Alberta

(text of an email sent to Brian Lee Crowley of the MacDonald Laurier Institute on September 2, 2026) Dear Brian, I am writing to you and your board with respect to the publication “The equity excelle...

Many of the questions contain multiple questions within one, creating confusion on what Albertans are voting yes or no for, political science professor says.

Introduction of Alberta's new all-in-one driver's licence, which doubles as the Alberta Health card and also features a citizenship marker.

Agency is recruiting staff ahead of Oct. 19 vote, which will include separation question, to ensure Herculean ballot count runs smoothly

MAGA influencers are promoting the narrative that the province has no choice but to leave

What is the point of teaching, they ask, if students are just pretending to learn?

What new data made available to Public Interest Alberta tells us about October 19

“Just give us a few years and I’m sure Albertans will calm down.” (Clare Blackwood and Ian MacIntyre) talk about Danielle Smith getting not one but two pipelines, Carney saying we don’t have time for ...

To that end, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, today announced modifications to the Senate appointment process.

There's a massive financial transfer happening in Canada that barely gets mentioned. Trevor Tombe breaks down what it is, who pays, and who benefits.

I live in Alberta. I am pissed off. Not about separation, which is stupid, and which I am writing a whole series about, so I will spare you here. Not about the weather, although the thunderstorms r…

New survey data suggests Alberta separatism is concentrated among UCP voters, not broadly shared across the province.