Now that the metaphorical horse has departed the proverbial barn for pastures unknown, Alberta’s toothless elections agency says it’s slamming the barn door shut. At any rate, Elections Alberta officials…
The spectre of separation haunting Alberta nowadays may deeply divide the province, but almost everyone seems to agree about one thing: No matter what happens, no matter what the courts…
The arguments that the Alberta separatists make to justify their positions are carefully crafted to seem almost reasonable, while at the same time are actually distorting the picture entirely to…
One unacknowledged assumption is most certainly shared by the would-be leaders of a “free” Alberta: The new country they hope to create could not function as a democracy. Indeed, from…
It would appear that the United Conservative Party Caucus is OK with having 18 of its members, including eight cabinet ministers, publicly identified as supporters of Alberta independence from Canada,…
A headline in Friday’s Calgary Herald asks: “Is the UCP still a pro-Canada party?” That’s one of those questions that, if you have to ask it, you already know the…
It’s all very well that Stephen Harper has assured Canadians he didn’t sign Alberta’s separation referendum petition, but that’s not good enough. It was, as the CBC’s online wordsmith put…
British Columbia Premier David Eby yesterday said what a lot of Canadians have been thinking – to wit, that the Alberta separatists gallivanting off to Washington to get the Trump…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that virtually no one, with the possible exception of the American porn star Stormy Daniels, has ever benefited from a relationship with Donald Trump.…
Yesterday, the US attacked Venezuela and captured its president and his wife. This move has significant implications not only for Venezuela and its people, but it also stands to have…
We paid $2 million for this? The report of Danielle Smith’s Alberta Next Panel dropped Friday afternoon and, boy, is it ever a pitiful little squib! There’s no report, really,…
Jeffrey Rath, the caricature of an Alberta separatist who happens to be Alberta’s best-known separatist at the moment, isn’t right about much, but he was right when he got up…
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 Prosperity Project’s separation…
Thanks to the success of former Progressive Conservative deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk’s Forever Canadian petition campaign, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith now finds herself on the proverbial horns of a very…
The Frankenparty stitched together in 2017 by Jason Kenney from the Wildrose Party and the Progressive Conservatives has spawned a monster. Hard-line Alberta separatists who were tolerated by Mr. Kenney…
If the Alberta Prosperity Project hoped to hold the largest public protest in Alberta history yesterday, as some organizers of the “independence rally” that took place in front of the…
A government lawyer will be in court today in Edmonton to intervene on behalf of a group that wants Alberta to separate from Canada. A letter yesterday from a Justice…
Notwithstanding frequent protestations to the contrary, it gets harder by the day to believe Premier Danielle Smith and a significant portion of her cabinet and caucus are not fully committed…
If unicorn farts smelled like expensive French perfume, the Alberta Republic as imagined by the so-called “Alberta Prosperity Project” would be the sweetest smelling place on earth! Alas, there are…
Let it be acknowledged that while Jason Kenney’s assessment of the danger posed by the United Conservative Party’s continued flirtation with separatism is spot on, it was he, Alberta’s first…
