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Alberta won’t sign on to any handgun ban options Ottawa may offer, and says it’s willing to take the fight to court if provincial firearms jurisdiction is disregarded. The federal Liberal government planned to give municipalities the ability to implement a ban but has adjusted since the last election to focus on working with provinces. Alberta’s Read More…

Give Quebec Premier Francois Legault credit for getting one thing right: Alberta cannot change the formula for equalization payments on its own. On Saturday, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney repeated his party’s promise to hold a referendum on the federal scheme that siphons billions of dollars annually from “have” provinces (with Read More…

  If a national government determines that as its preferred policy it will shut down the central industry of a particular province, and therefore inevitably the various industries and jobs related to the central one, does it not have a duty to engage in the most serious and detailed negotiations Read More…

You don’t see news media reporting that Germany has declared Audi and BMW to be obsolete companies from yesteryear. Nor that Switzerland has come to regard its banking sector and watchmakers as sunset industries. There’s been no announcement that South Korea is shuttering Samsung. Nor that the Greeks are tearing Read More…

As my contribution to Alberta’s centennial celebration 14 years ago, I penned an essay entitled, with a nod to Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Centennial Proposal: Let’s Get while the Getting’s Good”. Published in the Calgary Herald, it was my case for exiting this dysfunctional federation called Canada. While many Albertans voiced their Read More…

Stop this pantomime that must be driving every Albertan wild with frustration and way past anger Steel pipe to be used in the construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion lies at a stockpile site in Kamloops, B.C.Dennis Owen/Reuters Were you to suppose that the purpose of current national energy Read More…

What a cringing embarrassment! Kenney’s notion that Alberta shares anything, except our tax dollars, with Quebec is pure pandering lunacy. What does he think Legault is going to do in reaction to his “charm offensive”? Roll over and say “We’re sorry we’ve been taking your money and buying Algerian oil. Read More…

And people suggest that our movement hasn’t had an effect on Alberta politics. Seriously?! In fact, the Alberta Independence movement has probably had a far more powerful consequence for our province, both immediate and long term, than even the election of a gutless “conservative” majority UCP did. Kenney will ride Read More…

By – F.L. Ted Morton April 3, 2018 Fiscal Federalism and Equalization Policy in Canada Daniel Béland , André Lecours , Gregory P. Marchildon , Haizhen Mou and M. Rose Olfert University of Toronto Press, 2017, pp. 114 Reviewed by F.L. Ted Morton I’ve been saying and writing negative things about Read More…

Findings from the Environics Institute point to rising political alienation in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Atlantic Canada – resentment that Ottawa ignores at its own peril, researchers warn   ERIC ANDREW-GEE –PUBLISHED MARCH 22, 2019UPDATED 8 HOURS AGO The shields of the provinces and territories surround the Centennial Flame in front Read More…