Our Interim Leader, Sharon Maclise, is a veteran of Alberta’s conservative Grassroots politics and has been actively fighting for the best interests of Alberta since she joined the Reform Party in 1989. She was invited to run for nomination as a candidate in the 1993 federal election but was raising a young family Read More…
By Jay Hill As I’ve interacted with countless folks over this summer, many here in Canada’s heartland of the Prairies have voiced their belief that a strong case can be made that Confederation is no longer working in the best interests of the West, particularly Alberta and Saskatchewan As I’ve Read More…
By Michael Wagner For decades, Professor Barry Cooper of the University of Calgary has been a prominent intellectual defender of Alberta and the West. More than anyone else, he has written about the distinct political identity of the prairie West. Importantly, Cooper has challenged the notion of “western alienation” Read More…
Click this link to listen to the Western Independence radio show on Omny – https://omny.fm/shows/danielle-smith/western-independence The Alberta Freedom Alliance (AFA) is not an official political party in the province, but they’re working on it. The interim leader of the alliance was in Edson on April 28 and the Edson Leader sat Read More…
By Michael Wagner Although Prime Minister Justin Trudeau believes that Canada is the “first postnational state’’ and has ‘‘no core identity,’’ most Canadians throughout history have probably believed otherwise. Before the late twentieth century, for example, English-speaking Canada had a notable British flavour to it, whereas Quebec has always had a distinct identity Read More…
By Michael Wagner Peter Zeihan is a prominent American geopolitical strategist who analyzes global trends. In 2014 he wrote a book entitled The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder. Basically, he explains why the United States is a major world power as a result Read More…
Let us no longer fool ourselves – Canada has been a divided nation from the beginning, only becoming more divided over the decades. It is, frankly, a miracle that it has hung together this long, given the division, disparities, and bullying unfairness from the ROC against the Prairies. Alberta, and Read More…
Stephen Harper, the 2000 Federal Election, and the Case for Alberta Independence Since the 1970s, some very thoughtful and intelligent people have expressed concerns about Alberta’s future within Canada. Beginning in the 1980s, one such person was Stephen Harper, the future prime minister. He was so concerned, in fact, that Read More…
Alberta Independence in 2020? By Michael Wagner In 2008, Dr. Roger Gibbins, then-president of the Canada West Foundation and formerly a long-time political science professor at the University of Calgary (where he specialized in western Canadian politics), wrote a short fictional account about an Alberta independence referendum in the year Read More…
Alberta versus the Federal Leviathan By Michael Wagner In 2016, Vancouver lawyer David D. Chesman wrote a master’s thesis in political science at the University of British Columbia entitled “Whither Leviathan: Canadian Federalism and Alberta.” The “Leviathan” in the title refers to the federal government when it becomes oppressive by Read More…
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