Pacific Link: A pipeline in whose interest?
The Carney government says a West Coast pipeline — now called Pacific Link — is a key nation-building project and essential to the country’s...
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20 of 171 episodesAlberta’s data centre push is trouble for Danielle Smith
New polling shows AI data centres in Alberta are a political problem for the UCP government. We hear from voters in the heart of conservativ...
How Alberta’s federalist push is lagging
It’s crunch time to sway conservative voters ahead of Alberta’s referendum. But are federalist leaders doing enough? So far, separatists hav...
Alberta separatists think they’ll win. Polls project a loss
Separatists think they’ll win a vote they’re poised to lose by a wide margin, according to an exclusive new poll. With a little more than fi...
Too friendly to resist: Danielle Smith’s U.S. diplomacy
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Ontario Premier Doug Ford are using very different tactics in the ongoing Canada-U.S. trade war. As Smith...
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Is a trade war good for separatists?
Putting oil and gas on the bargaining table as the U.S.-Canada trade war heats up would pour gasoline on Alberta’s fall referendum. At least...
A new era of politics in Alberta?
From how we entered confederation to how Alberta is debating its future within it, a new book tries to anticipate where the province is head...
The Prairies senators: ‘We can’t do stupid stuff’ (Encore)
**New episode drops Friday, August 21** ENCORE PRESENTATION There’s great concern that people in Ottawa aren’t taking what’s happening in Al...
The Firewall Letter - 25 years later (Encore)
**New episode drops Friday, August 21** ENCORE PRESENTATION Back in January 2001, six influential Alberta conservatives sent then premier Ra...
The Coutts Diaries (Encore)
**New episode drops Friday, August 21** ENCORE PRESENTATION What does a kid from Nanton, Alta., write in his private journals after spending...
'We're not dealing with normal'
As Canada stares down the barrel of fresh U.S. tariffs (50 per cent), there is a realization that the counter-strategies that succeeded in P...
It's all about the math
A non-binding trilateral agreement to advance the multibillion-dollar Pathways Project, as part of the push to build a new bitumen pipeline...
Big tent party
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and several prominent federal Conservatives, including leader Pierre Poilievre, had a showdown with Calgary's...
'It's always Band-Aids'
About 3.4 million Albertans are eligible to receive a $100 energy rebate. The provincial government says the cash will bring meaningful reli...
Mixed messages in the argument for federalism
Danielle Smith uses the energy MOU has Exhibit A in her argument for remaining in Canada. Pierre Poilievre uses it as Exhibit A in making hi...
'The art of humility'
West of Centre 's citizen panel is back, this time to weigh in on October's referendum, where Albertans will be asked to decide the future o...
'Primordial politics'
As Albertans contemplate an October referendum that will see them choose between the province remaining in Canada or starting the process to...
Door No. 1 or Door No. 2
Let’s make a deal, Alberta! Will it be door No. 1 or door No. 2? Except there’s no zonk prize, and you’re not allowed to switch. Alberta’s p...