Danielle Smith has turned western grievance into a national unity crisis

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Angus Reid poll shows Alberta separation such an unpopular choice that people will leave the province if it goes ahead.

I remember taking two weeks off last Christmas and I didn't miss a beat; this Christmas, the beats kept coming. I give it four out of five chilies for spiciness ;-)

News Release   December 11, 2025  For Immediate Release Egale Canada, Skipping Stone, and five individual gender diverse youth in Alberta (supported by their parents) have applied to amend their…

VANCOUVER – No sooner were Alberta separatists celebrating provincial Justice Minister Mickey Amerey’s secession-friendly Bill 14 for ending the court challenge that sought to block the Alberta Prospe...

An Alberta legislature member was called on by the Opposition to apologize Thursday after saying the province has a duty to step in to deal with "bad parents" while also comparing transgender surgery ...

Albertan country music icon Corb Lund showed up in Edmonton yesterday to drop off a citizen initiative application at the offices of Elections Alberta for a referendum petition seeking permanent prote...

The Smith government’s law encouraging big corporate donations largely failed to elect friendlier city councils.

Who knew the public would end up supporting 51,000 striking Alberta schoolteachers in spite of the United Conservative Party Government’s blithe gaslighting about the reasons for the labour dispute no...

Is Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government seriously proposing to make anyone who wants an influenza or COVID-19 vaccination next year order it during an unannounced 78-day window that is alrea...

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A virus eradicated from Canada a generation ago just took the life of a newborn

If the goal of Danielle Smith’s “historic” pipeline announcement yesterday was to distract voters and media from Alberta’s looming teachers’ strike, increasing health care chaos, unpopular separatist ...

An interview with the Halifax Examiner.

ALT: a group of people are dancing in front of a truck that says ' discovery ' on it

The new PM's defiant tone doesn't always appear to match his actions.

SYDNEY, Australia – Let me take a few moments out of my Antipodean sojourn to make a couple of observations about Danielle Smith’s fairy tale about how the Government of Alberta lacks the funds to giv...

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Where’s the Alberta Energy “War Room” now that the United Conservative Party needs it? Yesterday The New York Times published a major feature story on Alberta’s burgeoning measles epidemic – which sen...

The virus hits the old and poor hardest. The province is erecting hurdles for granting them protection.

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Crystal ball visions of a new constitution, a new kind of republic, perhaps even a split into two nations.

A Canadian journalist contacted me the other day looking to get a sense of the current state of the Canadian boycott.