In case you haven’t heard (that’s a joke, of course you’ve heard), Alberta is holding a referendum this month. The most high-profile question Albertans are being asked concerns whether or not the Government of Alberta should initiate the legal process of holding a binding referendum on separating from Canada (whatever exactly that means; the Constitution…
“All this narrative is being spun about how the Canadian system is failing us,” says John Hiemstra, an emeritus professor of Political Science at The King’s University in Edmonton, Alberta. Recently, he spoke to Christian Courier about the Alberta separatist movement, which he calls “deeply ideological” and “complex.” In October 19, Albertans will vote in…
I’m writing this a couple of days after Anthony Fauci was brought before a hostile American Senate committee where he was accused of creating covid and told he should be in prison. Former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United States, Fauci was the reluctant poster-boy for controversial policies…
Oil pipeline politics in Canada is, in the short term, muted so that Team Canada can project national unity amid the trade dispute with the U.S. On August 22, the U.S. imposed new 50 percent tariffs on about $28 billion, or 5 percent, of Canadian exports. Since the trade war began in February 2025 Alberta…
My welcome to Canada occurred in Alberta in 1969. Edmonton is still “home” in my heart. Through work as a policy analyst of Western Canadian issues in the 1990s, including through the Quebec referendum, I gained an appreciation of the yin-yang tensions between Alberta and Quebec that make Canada a difficult country to govern. At…
“The past is never dead,” William Faulkner once said, then added, “it’s not even past.” In her debut historical novel Revolution Songs, Carissa Halton, an award-winning Alberta author, explores the Crowsnest Pass mining strike of 1932. Halton told Christian Courier that she was fascinated by the bitter labour dispute, not just because of its importance…
“My child has just come out as transgender. What do I do?” These days, it seems that no matter how you respond, someone will judge you harshly. These questions take on special urgency as the average age of coming out as trans is steadily dropping, and there are increasingly effective treatment options for transforming bodies….
There is a concept in Catholic Social Thought called “the principle of subsidiarity.” It’s a bit like the Reformed concept of “sphere sovereignty” but not exactly. The idea is that human dignity in all its richness is best served by a variety of communities – ranging from families to schools, neighbourhoods to churches – and…
“That pipeline has to happen for our country.” Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston delivered this statement during a CBC interview on January 28. Houston said that a bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the north coast of B.C. is key to national unity. He was commenting on a memorandum of understanding signed between the government of…
Even as the dark rumblings from down south continue and some Alberta separatists meet with Trump officials (an act that – while not strictly treasonous – could be seen as treasonish), Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has resisted calls from other leaders (most notably B.C. Premier David Eby and Ontario Premier Doug Ford) to take a…
When politicians make policies specifically targeting transgender kids, as they are doing in Alberta, what is their aim? Who wants you to be preoccupied about trans kids, and who benefits when you are? Politics is about principles, rights and formal justice, but it’s also about emotion, power and competition. Though we need to ask “principled”…
I’m a proud Albertan and Albertans are very proud of their low taxes. Just watch an Albertan in B.C. theatrically sigh and roll their eyes when confronted with a 7% Provincial Sales Tax. We have a slogan for our low-tax regime: “The Alberta Advantage” and we’ll be darned if we’re going to give it up….
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