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Michael Darte Let’s say you are speaking to someone with a different opinion on whether Alberta should be its own country, independent of Canada.  Often these types of discussions become…

From cattle to canola, Alberta’s industries are fed up with Ottawa’s hostility. Is it time Albertans took the same stand? Alberta’s industries have many of the same grievances with the…

“There is really only one path forward,” Modry declared. Western Standard Article The Alberta Prosperity Project has announced that the Court of King’s Bench in Edmonton denied its motion to…

For the Love of Alberta: Join the Movement Hello Alberta Friends, Do you have your Alberta Flag hanging proudly in front of your home? Are you showing the beautiful blue…

Where Do Your Values and Future Belong? It is so easy for those in Canada today to use the language of “Left-Wing” or “Right-Wing” to describe those on the other…

Governments are temporary. Parties rise and fall. Leaders change, policies shift, bureaucracies swell and shrink with the times. That’s the character of politics: it’s temporary by design. Or at least…

To now declare this bungled project a “gift” to Alberta, as a recent op-ed in the Toronto Star did, is not only tone-deaf: it’s an insult. It ignores the fact that Alberta’s taxpayers helped finance the very project Ottawa botched. It also reveals an astonishing lack of understanding of the historical, economic and political dynamics at play between Ottawa and Western Canada.

To now declare this bungled project a “gift” to Alberta, as a recent op-ed in the Toronto Star did, is not only tone-deaf: it’s an insult. It ignores the fact that Alberta’s taxpayers helped finance the very project Ottawa botched. It also reveals an astonishing lack of understanding of the historical, economic and political dynamics at play between Ottawa and Western Canada.