Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
The man is gone but he is not forgotten and he should not be forgotten. Ever.
We still feel the anger, the rage.
The ivory tower crowd tries to soften the blow by using the fancy-pants word “alienation.”
Alberta
A guide to the (many) groups running Alberta’s separatist and remain camps
Who’s leading the “remain” side in this divisive, near-existential referendum on separation for Alberta? And who’s leading the “leave” side, pushing for a future binding independence question?
These are simple questions. There are not simple answers.
If there’s one thing that unites the disparate sides of this debate, it’s that neither is organized by a single, top-down umbrella group.
MACLEOD: From Canada’s cash cow to energy king
Alberta sits on some of the world’s largest energy reserves, yet we’re landlocked and constantly hamstrung by Ottawa’s web of regulations, policies, and environmental vetoes. Federal rules don’t just slow projects down — they kill them outright and drive billions in investment south of the border. The result? We subsidize the rest of Canada while our core industry gets throttled.
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GOLDSTEIN: Albertans are frustrated with being Canada’s cash cow
The reality is that many Albertans — and not just those already convinced that separation is the only answer — are legitimately frustrated with their province’s status in Canada.
Gratuitously insulting them over the next five months, at least, as Albertans debate their future role in or outside of Confederation, serves no purpose.
The CBC. Absolute arsehole of journalism in Canada.
Why Alberta’s Secession Debate Is a Greater Threat to Canadian Federalism Than Quebec’s
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s artful dodge of the latest litigious mischief of the militant indigenous is a welcome move onto the fast track of the devolution of the Canadian Constitution.
On May 13, we had the absurd national embarrassment of the indigenous people in Alberta, representing approximately 3.5 percent of the province’s population, gaining a preliminary court judgment that Alberta did not have the right to hold a referendum on the issue of seeking independence from Canada without prior discussion with appropriate First Nations representatives.
At the same time, other indigenous elements have challenged the right of the federal, Alberta, and British Columbia governments to build a pipeline to the Pacific for the exportation of Alberta oil and gas.
What will Mark Carney’s role be in the Alberta referendum?
Announcing her referendum question last week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith invoked the last prime minister’s name four times.
“When I was first elected premier, I was very concerned that it would be almost impossible to restore provincial rights stolen from Alberta and other provinces by the Trudeau-Singh government in Ottawa,” she said, also referencing the former NDP leader, Jagmeet Singh, whose caucus supported the Trudeau government from 2022 to 2024.
John Ivison: Carney knows from experience separatism can get very real if Alberta is mishandled
Mark Carney was asked Monday about his role in the forthcoming Alberta referendum campaign and the response was reassuring.
The prime minister wasn’t exactly Henry V at Agincourt on St. Crispin’s Day, rallying his outnumbered troops in a call to arms.
But he is a veteran of these campaigns from his time in the United Kingdom during the Brexit and Scottish independence referendums. He knows that when emotions run high, a positive appeal is needed to offset gloomy portents about the certain costs, and uncertain gains, of independence.
Majority of party members likely to back Alberta separation, UCP president says
The president of Alberta’s governing United Conservative Party says he believes that a majority of UCP members will vote against remaining in Canada in a referendum this fall, despite Premier Danielle Smith’s campaign in favour of Confederation.
Rob Smith, who heads the UCP’s board of directors, said the party will not pick a side in the lead-up to the separation vote, in which Albertans will decide if the province should stay in Canada, or if it should start the legal process to hold a second, binding vote on secession.
Majority of Albertans would vote to stay in Canada, find Smith’s handling poor says government polling company and CBC
As an October referendum on the future of Alberta separation looms, new polling finds three in five Albertans say they would vote to stay in Canada, while more than half of Albertans feel Premier Danielle Smith has handled the issue “poorly.”
On Thursday, Smith announced she is planning to put a question on the fall referendum ballot that will ask Albertans if they want the province to remain in Canada or if they want a future binding referendum on separation.
According to a poll from the Angus Reid Institute released Monday, 60 per cent of respondents would vote no to the official referendum question, compared to 35 per cent who would vote yes.
MACLEOD: Alberta can’t survive five years of globalist Carney’s centralized control
Mark Carney is not some accidental politician who wandered into Ottawa from Bay Street. He is a product of the modern global financial establishment. Former governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, long-time participant at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, and a prominent voice in global climate finance and centralized economic coordination, Carney has spent nearly two decades operating inside elite international circles.
Carney warns that push for Alberta separatism referendum could be ‘dangerous bluff’
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney warned that Alberta separatists who think a referendum will provide the province more leverage are risking a “very dangerous bluff” and argued that it is “not helpful” to ask people to vote over secession.
Speaking to reporters from a residential construction site in Ottawa, Carney had a stark warning for Albertans ahead of Smith’s referendum question on provincial sovereignty in the fall: be wary of what you’re voting for.
Echoes of Brexit as Alberta blunders towards vote on separation from Canada
An embattled leader forced to call a referendum on separation to ward off mutiny – and then pledging to campaign against it. Allegations that prosperity had been stolen by distant elites and could be remedied with a vote to leave. Mutterings of foreign interference.
Conrad Black: Canada better hope Alberta doesn’t leave with its wealth
It is painful to reflect on this, but I think we are disserving ourselves if we do not recognize how absurd this country appears to many well-disposed and intelligent foreign onlookers. We are now seen as the most absurdly woke and politically correct (and therefore foolish) country in the world, and the country with the highest suicide rate in the world because our crumbling health-care system now champions the virtues of early death, as well as being one of the most unsafe advanced countries for Jews to live in, because of widespread antisemitic bigotry.
Is Canada about to break apart?
Alberta is about to decide whether it wants to stay in Canada or take steps to become an independent nation.
The provincial premier, Danielle Smith, recently announced that Alberta will hold a referendum to determine its future in Canada. The question to be asked will be: “Should Alberta remain a province of Canada or should the government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?”
Danielle Smith tries to blame 700,000 illusory Albertans for her separatism gambit
Let’s say you live in a house with your family of four, and one day, three angry-looking characters bang on your front door and tell you they’re going to burn down your house. Everyone in your family is horrified and incensed, of course, and you yell at the trio of arsonists to get off your porch while your spouse calls the police.
Now, some math: In this scenario, do you have three people who want to burn down a house? Or do you have seven people demanding a robust debate about whether it should be burned to the ground?