Smith vs. Carney.
Book your ringside seats. Tickets are going fast.
If you’re sitting in a comfy chair among the self-styled smart set in Toronto you no doubt believe it’s all a lot of noise from sore losers.
Alberta
Perhaps it’s time Alberta does go it alone and says goodbye to Canada says Star
Alberta is giving me a headache.
The province stands alone in its incurable sense of grievance with the rest of the federation.
Not even a $34.2-billion expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline (TMX) built by Ottawa to get Alberta oil to non-U.S. markets for the first time has reduced Alberta’s bellyaching.
‘It’s disrespectful’: Smith pushes back at Carney comments
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Prime Minister Mark Carney was being disrespectful last week with comments he made about her role in the trade war with the U.S.
Last weekend in Victoria, Carney joked about Canadian premiers appearing on Fox News, the conservative U.S. media outlet, saying it would be a “bad idea” to put Smith on the network to advocate for cross-border diplomacy.
Bell: Mark Carney is now on a collision course with Danielle Smith
If Liberal Leader Mark Carney thinks Danielle Smith is just going to go away he has got another thing coming.
If Carney wins the election and remains prime minister and ignores Albertans, he is in for a fight with the Alberta premier.
The smart money says this will shape up to be a battle Carney will not be able to stickhandle around.
Tasha Kheiriddin: Carney should show the West some respect
Liberal Leader Mark Carney should feel right at home in Alberta: after all, he was raised there. But his trip there this week feels more like a political minefield than a homecoming. That’s largely due to his recent quip that while he’s happy to dispatch Ontario Premier Doug Ford to advocate for Canada in Washington, he wouldn’t send Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
Percentage of Albertans Wanting to Secede Nearly Matches Quebec’s: Poll
One in four Albertans would vote “yes” in a referendum on leaving Canada, just 3 percentage points behind Quebecers’ support for separation, a new poll suggests.
A quarter of Albertans would support separation from Canada, nearly matching the 28 percent of Quebec residents who would favour their province becoming its own country, according to a survey by the Angus Reid institute published on April 6. The desire for separation in both provinces would rise to 30 percent if the Liberals were to form the next government, according to the poll.
Alberta premier suggests Mark Carney has issues with ‘strong conservative women’
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith responded Monday to Liberal Leader Mark Carney using her as a stump speech punchline, saying Carney has issues with assertive women of opposing ideologies.
“I’ve noticed this with progressive men and how much they talk about how much they support women until they meet a strong conservative woman,” Smith said in Edmonton, responding to questions at an unrelated news conference.
Smith says she won’t ‘shut up’ after Carney jab at campaign rally
OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Mark Carney joked it would be “a bad idea” to send Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to fight back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada.
Smith fired back at Carney on Monday at a press conference in Edmonton.
I suspect Carney is acting on instructions from Beijing.
Geoff Russ: Alberta separatists can’t be ignored if Canada is to survive
People who choose to live in Ottawa tend to dislike Preston Manning. The city’s disdain for him is on the same scale as Western Canada’s anger at the memory of Pierre Trudeau.
When the Globe and Mail published the former Reform leader’s warning that Mark Carney poses a threat to national unity on Wednesday, that vitriol arose once again, scolding him for failing to toe the Team Canada line. That does not change the fact that Manning has a point.
CBC – The most important election of our lifetime? These Albertans say it’s high stakes
Apparently Tranny rights are big on the list of voter concerns in Alberta.
The case for Alberta as the 51st US state
Alberta would make a great 51st state. It has a population of 4.8 million and had a gross domestic product of $244.3 billion in 2024. (All numbers here are in U.S. dollars.) This would rank us 27th among the 50 states, just behind South Carolina at $246.3 billion. Over 90% of our economic output is from oil & gas extraction, refining, distribution, and servicing. Alberta has over 37 billion tons of mostly readily accessible coal reserves, the world’s third-largest proven oil reserves, and among the world’s top ten largest natural gas reserves.
Ottawa’s Emissions Plan Would Cause ‘Deep Recession’ in Alberta: Government-Commissioned Report
Ottawa’s emissions reduction plan could push Alberta into a “deep recession” by 2030, while raising consumer prices nationwide and lowering Canadians’ incomes by 2050, says a new report by the Conference Board of Canada, commissioned by the Alberta government.
The report, published on Jan. 21 and updated on March 24, looks at the potential economic impacts of Canada’s Emissions Reduction Plan (ERP), a set of measures the federal government has proposed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 to 45 percent relative to 2005 levels by 2030.
Bell: Smith firm — if demands tossed, Alberta could hold a referendum
We’re jumping ahead a few steps but let’s give you the play.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has nine demands, nine U-Turns she wants the federal government to take.
She gives the new federal government, when it is elected, six months to move on these issues.
Poll suggests growing support for Alberta sovereignty
A poll commissioned by independent journalist Rachel Parker shows 36% of Albertans would support Alberta independence and 20% would support Alberta becoming a US state or territory.
President Donald Trump first floated the idea of Canada becoming the 51st state back in November, in remarks to then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that were first perceived as a joke.
Mark Carney will continue to screw over oil and gas producers with emissions cap, environment minister says
OTTAWA — A Mark Carney government will maintain the cap on emissions from the production of oil and gas, Environment Minister Terry Duguid said in a recent interview.
Under former prime minister Justin Trudeau, the Liberals promised in the 2021 election to cap emissions from oil and gas and began the process to regulate the cap a year later.
Danielle Smith has something to say…
At his request, I met with Prime Minister Mark Carney @MarkJCarney today. We had a very frank discussion in which I made it clear that Albertans will no longer tolerate the way we’ve been treated by the federal Liberals over the past 10 years.
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— Danielle Smith (@ABDanielleSmith) March 20, 2025
And … Energy CEOs Ask Party Leaders to Declare ‘Energy Crisis’, Reduce Oil and Gas Regulations
A group of 14 energy CEOs have written a letter to all major federal parties urging them to declare an “energy crisis” in Canada and use emergency powers to relax regulations within the industry and increase production levels.
The CEOs, who represent the 10 largest oil and gas companies and four largest pipeline companies in Canada, suggest several measures to support oil and natural gas investment and “remove the barriers we have imposed on ourselves over time.”
h/t XC
Smith says changes to Alberta infrastructure defence law will prevent any ‘interference from Ottawa’
OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith fired a shot across the bow of new Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday, vowing to beef up a provincial law shielding oil and gas production from federal meddling.
Smith said at a press conference that new amendments to Alberta’s Critical Infrastructure Defence Act would put a firewall around Alberta’s energy sector by declaring oil and gas production sites and facilities housing emissions data and records as essential infrastructure.