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Frontier Centre conference to push northern infrastructure as Canadian nation-building project
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (371+ words) westernstandard.news Canada should expand transportation, energy and communications infrastructure across the North to strengthen Arctic sovereignty and unlock natural resources, according to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.The Winnipeg-based think tank will bring together government, indigenous, industry, national…...
Carney exempts new interprovincial pipelines from Impact Assessment Act reviews
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (597+ words) Western Standard Prime Minister Mark Carneyâs government has eliminated a requirement for new interprovincial pipelines to undergo reviews under the federal Impact Assessment Act, a move welcomed by industry but opposed by First Nations and environmental groups.The new…...
MEJIA / HILL: Eby government must repeal DRIPA to end BC's property rights crisis
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (662+ words) Western Standard...
Indigenous-led Alberta partnership launches $4.6 million oil sands water treatment project
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (548+ words) Western Standard...
OLDCORN: Hamilton’s crackdown on Dominion Society conference failed — and that’s good for Canadian democracy
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FOURNIER: King Charles III’s new social contract Alberta never signed
1+ week, 6+ day ago (860+ words) In June 1215, England’s King John sealed the Magna Carta at Runnymede, establishing the foundational principle that no sovereign power could deprive a free person of liberty or property without lawful judgment. The document did not grant rights; it recognized them…...
FLETCHER: BC’s anti-NDP coalition tradition endures for a reason
2+ week, 23+ hour ago (794+ words) VICTORIA — After the 1952 BC election replaced a coalition government of Liberal and Conservative MLAs with a new entity organized out of Alberta called Social Credit, its 19 surprised and mostly rookie winners chose a BC Conservative from Kelowna to lead them....
MACLEOD: Kenney, Nenshi, and Notley want National Energy Program 2.0 — punish Trump by punishing Alberta
2+ week, 2+ day ago (686+ words) Colin MacLeod is a Calgary-based author and advocate for Alberta independence. He is the author of The Case for Alberta’s Independence, which argues for the province's potential as a sovereign nation with greater economic freedom, cultural confidence, and political self-determination....
AFL president McGowan calls for export tax on Alberta oil entering the US
2+ week, 3+ day ago (383+ words) AFL president McGowan calls for export tax on Alberta oil entering the U.S. Western Standard EDMONTON â Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan called on Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday to impose an export tax on Alberta oil entering…...
Nationalist leader says independence is the best protection for Alberta oil during trade war
2+ week, 3+ day ago (382+ words) Western Standard EDMONTON â Leading Alberta independence advocate Keith Wilson says voting for Alberta to hold a future binding referendum is the best way to protect Alberta's oil industry from being weaponized in Canada's trade war with the U.S…...