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MORGAN: Canada’s ‘rez dog’ crisis is a failure of governance

Cory Morgan

Cory Morgan

16 hours ago

4 min read

Fatal dog attacks expose gaps in animal management on reserves — and strengthen the case for prevention, enforcement, and accountable leadership.

BRULOTTE: The North Atlantic is a strategic front again — Canada is not ready

Western Standard Guest Columnist

Western Standard Guest Columnist

Western Standard Guest Columnist

17 hours ago

5 min read

FROM DEAD MICE TO A LIVE GOAT: Ten Calgary food establishments flagged by AHS in 2026

David Wiechnik

David Wiechnik

18 hours ago

8 min read

NEMETH: A return to colony status — Carney’s EU ‘associate membership’ would crush Canadian sovereignty

Western Standard Guest Columnist

Western Standard Guest Columnist

Western Standard Guest Columnist

16 hours ago

4 min read

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on September 19, 2026.

'DOES THIS COUNTRY ACTUALLY WANT US?': Smith fights back tears as she makes the case for Alberta to remain in Canada

David Wiechnik

David Wiechnik

13 hours ago

3 min read

Former BC Premier Gordon Campbell (left), former Reform Party leader Preston Manning, and Marco Navarro-Genie on September 19, 2026.

Former BC premier praises Smith but warns Canada is trapped by ‘tyranny of the status quo’

David Wiechnik

David Wiechnik

11 hours ago

2 min read

News

Former BC Premier Gordon Campbell (left), former Reform Party leader Preston Manning, and Marco Navarro-Genie on September 19, 2026.

Former BC premier praises Smith but warns Canada is trapped by ‘tyranny of the status quo’

David Wiechnik

David Wiechnik

11 hours ago

2 min read

Hotel industry urges CMHC mortgage rule change to add 21,000 rental units

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

11 hours ago

2 min read

Declassified Mulroney records surface ahead of Alberta Senate abolition referendum

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

12 hours ago

2 min read

'DOES THIS COUNTRY ACTUALLY WANT US?': Smith fights back tears as she makes the case for Alberta to remain in Canada

David Wiechnik

David Wiechnik

13 hours ago

3 min read

Conservative Party of BC Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay addresses supporters during the party's 2026 leadership convention.

EXCLUSIVE: Caucus faction tells Findlay to resign Saturday night or husband tape drops

Alex Zoltan

Alex Zoltan

8 hours ago

3 min read

Two sources say the file captures her husband, Surrey South MLA Brent Chapman, speaking in a threatening manner. The Western Standard has not heard the recording.

Seniors

Senior and child benefits projected to cost Ottawa $141.5 billion annually by 2030

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

10 hours ago

2 min read

Liberal MP sponsors petition to criminalize filming homeless people, addicts in public

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

13 hours ago

3 min read

Alberta RCMP warn 2026 could see most traffic deaths in more than a decade

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

14 hours ago

2 min read

Federal researchers to spend $12.6 million studying Trudeau school food program benefits

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

15 hours ago

2 min read

Recapping a chaotic, confusing Friday in British Columbia politics

Alex Zoltan

Alex Zoltan

15 hours ago

4 min read

Federal labour board orders CRA to pay Christian employees $13,500 over vaccine mandate

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

16 hours ago

2 min read

Opinion

Alberta independence is an economic suicide pact

LETTERS: Alberta independence is an economic suicide pact

Letter to the Editor

15 hours ago

1 min read

Brussels Marionette

NEMETH: A return to colony status — Carney’s EU ‘associate membership’ would crush Canadian sovereignty

Western Standard Guest Columnist

16 hours ago

4 min read

Rescue dog

MORGAN: Canada’s ‘rez dog’ crisis is a failure of governance

16 hours ago

4 min read

Russian Submarine

BRULOTTE: The North Atlantic is a strategic front again — Canada is not ready

Western Standard Guest Columnist

17 hours ago

5 min read

Voters at polling station

MACLEOD: The illusion of certainty — how public opinion gets manufactured by pollsters

18 hours ago

4 min read

BC Premier David Eby and cabinet ministers participate in a meeting of the Alliance of BC Modern Treaty Nations, one of a series of elaborate annual consultation meetings with indigenous leaders, at Ucluelet, June 4, 2026.

FLETCHER: BC’s latest treaties will provide land certainty? No, they won’t

Western Standard Guest Columnist

19 hours ago

3 min read

Too much, too fast?

WATCH: Has Canada lost control of immigration?

Western Standard News Services

18 Sep 2026

1 min read

Canadian Healthcare Supermarket

BURTON: Canada’s healthcare grocery store is open — but too many Canadians can’t get through the door

Western Standard Guest Columnist

18 Sep 2026

4 min read

Watch

Too much, too fast?

WATCH: Has Canada lost control of immigration?

Western Standard News Services

18 Sep 2026

1 min read

Who checks the judges?

HANNAFORD: Reining in radical judges

Nigel Hannaford

18 Sep 2026

3 min read

Patrick Clancy is set to speak publicly for the first time since his former wife’s murder trial ended without a verdict

WATCH: Patrick Clancy set to speak on ‘60 Minutes’ following Lindsay Clancy trial

17 Sep 2026

3 min read

Stronger together?

WATCH LIVE: Is Carney flirting with the EU a good idea?

Western Standard News Services

17 Sep 2026

1 min read

Business

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe has suggested that one or possibly two large-scale nuclear reactors, each capable of producing roughly 1,000 megawatts of power, could eventually be built in the northwestern part of the province.

Moe says Saskatchewan could build two 1,000-megawatt nuclear reactors

18 Sep 2026

2 min read

Canada’s first LNG export facility, the Shell-led LNG Canada project in Kitimat, British Columbia.

LNG Canada partners near decision on major Phase 2 expansion

18 Sep 2026

2 min read

Alberta royalty changes and federal tax relief are forthcoming as federal and provincial governments, along with industry, attempt to unlock billions of dollars in new oil-sands investment.

Alberta royalty changes, federal tax relief aim to unlock billions in oil sands investment

17 Sep 2026

3 min read

Alberta researchers are testing a new carbon capture system in Calgary that they say could slash costs by as much as 70% by reducing the amount of energy required to capture industrial emissions.

Alberta carbon capture pilot aims to cut costs by 70%

Western Standard News Services

16 Sep 2026

2 min read

The Cariboo Gold Project.

BC's Cariboo Gold Project approved for full construction with first gold targeted for 2029

15 Sep 2026

2 min read

Features

9/11

THE DAY THE SKY FELL: Remembering 9/11, 25 years later

11 Sep 2026

6 min read

students on their laptops

Are laptops making law students dumber? U of T and others think so

05 Sep 2026

4 min read

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