Conservative MP Dane Lloyd on what Ottawa could do now while pipelines are still years away: “Alberta and Canada is selling our oil at a $25 a barrel discount to the United States right now… If Prime Minister Mark Carney had lifted the west coast tanker ban, I’ve talked to people in the energy sector that said we could be shipping more Albertan oil off the west coast today to markets in Asia that will pay full price.” He added that oil by rail to the coast is feasible with terminal work: “We could be moving oil by rail to the west coast today if we didn’t have a West Coast tanker ban when this Liberal government took office.” Albertans want results, not 7–10 year timelines. Tangible steps beat rhetoric @DaneLloydMP

Alberta’s separation talk dates back more than a century. Tyler Dawson, Globe & Mail content/opinion editor, notes that “shortly after Alberta joined confederation, there’s this real sense that the province was treated poorly by Ottawa,” with a 1911 book already raising secession. The idea resurfaced under Social Credit in the 1930s, then “really comes into its own” during Pierre Trudeau’s National Energy Program, when separatist parties took about 12 percent of the vote in 1982 The pattern tracks federal politics. “You do not see a meaningful separatist movement in Alberta when Stephen Harper is Prime minister,” Dawson says, but Liberal governments have repeatedly driven alienation that “morphed into separatist sentiment.” Even after Mark Carney reversed some Trudeau-era policies, “there’s still this feeling that Alberta was treated really, really poorly in the last 11 years,” giving the movement its strongest mainstream foothold in decades Provincial leaders have responded differently. Jason Kenney “really just had no time for it,” while Danielle Smith has been “quite a bit more willing to accommodate this conversation,” calling the current referendum and easing the rules. Dawson expects the vote to leave separatism “a permanent part of Alberta’s political culture,” requiring both the UCP and Ottawa to treat the province’s grievances more seriously going forward Dawson's book, The Republic of Alberta: An Idea That Won’t Go Away was published in April 2026 @tylerrdawson

Kate Harrison on Carney’s Alberta pitch: “I think it was important for the prime minister to be out in Alberta last week making the pitch to Albertans. I think that he undermined that pitch by casting judgment on the other nine votes… He is casting judgment on a question that’s being put to Albertans before Albertans have had their say, and he did not do that before Quebecers went to the polls.” She added that the off-the-cuff remark “did more damage than it did good,” especially if Carney offers Quebec powers he withholds from Alberta @KatlynHarrison

CBC sends Toronto Annex Liberal Carney cheerleader Jayme Poisson to both rallies and she acts shocked that the leave side doesn’t want to talk to her Entire segment was paint-by-numbers: 5,000 at the Forever Canadian event get the full treatment—anger at Smith, treason talk, shame, sadness over immigration questions, hope Carney will save them. 1,000 at the legislature get the smaller-crowd, bad-weather, “they don’t trust media, get info from podcasts, contempt for Carney, started during COVID” framing After a month of CBC vilifying separatists, barely platforming their leaders, and stacking panels with snooty federalists, the surprise that people at the leave rally side-eyed the CBC reporter is the funniest part. The real question is: why send her at all?

"Despite claims of a green energy transition, total fossil fuel use in Canada actually increased nearly 150% from 1965 to 2024"—Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg

"Speaking on a conference call on Monday, after the release of Cliffs’s third-quarter earnings, Mr. Goncalves renewed his call for Ottawa to stomp out cheap imports of galvanized steel, a measure he says should allow the company to bring back laid-off Ontario workers. While Mr. Goncalves said that tariff-rate quotas imposed by Ottawa last year on foreign steel imports have helped Stelco considerably in hot-rolled steel, it hasn’t been enough in the galvanized sector. The Canadian market is too small to accommodate two domestic producers of galvanized steel, Stelco and ArcelorMittal Dofasco, as well as a flood of cheap imports, he said. “The domestic market in Canada simply cannot accommodate, and when the prime minister goes on a world trip and says, ‘Come to Canada, we’re open for business,’ they’re basically inviting new imports into the market.” He drew a direct line between Mr. Carney’s efforts to diversify Canada’s auto sector internationally and the loss of steel jobs in Canada. With Mr. Carney allowing China to sell a limited number of electric vehicles in Canada, “he was basically snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory,” Mr. Goncalves said" @NiallCMcGee