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, as long as they preserve a few tatters of deniability. The 18 MLAs appear on a list of separation sympathizers named publicly by the so-called […]
Posted inAlberta Politics
UCP reported planning to vote on publicly acknowledging separatist program – but not until after separation referendum!
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 answer. Maybe you don’t want to believe that you know it. But you do. And, yes Alberta, the United Conservative Party is a separatist party. […]
Posted inAlberta Politics
OK, Stephen Harper didn’t sign the separation petition, but he needs to say and do more
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 it, merely a quip. Nevertheless, if you listened carefully, the former Conservative prime minister could be heard to say at a collegial televised fireside chat […]
Posted inAlberta Politics
Nate Horner publishes perennial Alberta poverty plea, warns of ‘tough choices’
The poor little rich kid of Confederation is pleading poverty again. But take note, it’s not Alberta’s fault! (It’s never Alberta’s fault.) In an announcement yesterday that the next Alberta Budget will drop on Feb. 26, Finance Minister Nate Horner trotted out several traditional Alberta excuses about why we’re going to have to make some […]
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Alberta’s two-tier health care bill is designed to kill public health care – a new report shows how
Despite its name, Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025, is not health care legislation. The purpose of the law that was granted Royal Assent on Dec. 11 last year is to destroy public health care as we know it, not just in Alberta but throughout Canada, by legislating two-tier health care. It may well succeed […]
Posted inCanadian Politics
Pierre Poilievre set out to channel Mark Carney in Calgary speech, partly succeeding
Conservative Party of Canada Leader Pierre Poilievre tried hard to channel Prime Minister Mark Carney in Calgary Friday evening, partly succeeding. If the notion he’s paid attention to Canada’s changing political climate and altered course enough to fool inattentive voters without sacrificing supporters’ “conservative principles” was Mr. Poilievre’s pitch to party activists to let him […]
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Alberta separatists’ Washington junket – some dare call it treason, including B.C. Premier David Eby
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 Administration’s support to break up Canada are committing treason. Holders of this opinion would include a lot of Albertans, as a matter of fact. “I […]
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Letting Pierre Poilievre re-up as federal leader at this fraught moment seems like a Conservative political suicide pact
Pierre Poilievre is arguably the worst federal Canadian Conservative leader since … well, only since Andrew Scheer, actually. Still, he’s a political leader who blew a 27-point lead in public opinion polls to lose the 2025 federal elections to the Liberals, who’d been on the ropes for months. The same night, he lost his own […]
Posted inAlberta Politics
Naheed Nenshi challenges UCP MLAs to sign a pledge to Canada and make their opposition to separatism clear
As a work of political performance art, NDP Opposition Leader Naheed Nenshi’s challenge yesterday to United Conservative Party MLAs to sign a letter saying they are proud Canadians, opponents of Alberta separatism, and promise to make that known to voters is not bad. Not bad at all. Your typical UCP MLA, after all, is a […]
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Timing of Trump regime’s deadly occupation of Minneapolis probably isn’t ideal for Alberta’s separatists
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. This axiom is likely to apply to Alberta’s premier, Danielle Smith, who raced off to Mar-a-Lago a year ago to be at the U.S. president’s […]
Posted inGeopolitics
Mark Carney’s Rupture Address – a true emperor-has-no-clothes moment for the world!
The “rules-based international order” was always pish-posh that had very little to do with international law and boiled down to Washington making up the rules and giving the rest of us our orders. Which, it must be acknowledged, for the most part we cheerfully obeyed. But I’ll tell ya, one thing that wasn’t on my […]
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Naheed Nenshi’s response to Alberta separatists is still too nice, too nuanced, and too naïve
We can all agree that last Friday’s opinion piece by NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi on Alberta separatism published by CTV News had an accurate headline: The threat to our nation is very real. After that mildly promising beginning, though, things went downhill. I guess someone in the Opposition’s strategic brain trust reckoned Mr. Nenshi needed […]