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Ghosts of Heritage Park

WATCH: Spook-tacular ghost stories from Heritage Park’s haunted village

Leah Mushet

Leah Mushet

19 hours ago

3 min read

MORGAN: Repeal the Indian Act and replace it with nothing

Cory Morgan

Cory Morgan

20 hours ago

4 min read

THIBAULT: Alberta, let’s not make the same mistake as Quebec

Western Standard Guest Columnist

Western Standard Guest Columnist

Western Standard Guest Columnist

17 hours ago

3 min read

FLETCHER: BC Conservatives must untangle the NDP-union alliance

Western Standard Guest Columnist

Western Standard Guest Columnist

Western Standard Guest Columnist

21 hours ago

3 min read

Danielle Smith at Rebel News LIVE!

Smith says Alberta may cut taxpayer funding to anti-oil, pro drug distribution advocates

Alyson Fraser

Alyson Fraser

14 hours ago

3 min read

Premier Danielle Smith with Postmedia's Rick Bell on October 16, 2026.

'IT'S BANANAS': Smith questions Carney's quest to join European Union

Will Vasseur

Will Vasseur

14 hours ago

4 min read

News

Screenshot from an immigration poll conducted by the Environics Institute

Poll shows racialized Canadian to be more anti-immigration than white Canadians

Jackson Loy

Jackson Loy

14 hours ago

3 min read

Minorities are more likely to have a negative view of the current immigration system than white Canadians, a new study from the Environics Institute shows

Psychologists warn online gambling ads threaten mental health as MPs consider restrictions

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

15 hours ago

3 min read

CRA spent nearly $80,000 studying why Canadians fear opening tax letters

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

16 hours ago

3 min read

Study finds paper straws considered worse than plastic in key environmental measures

Alyson Fraser

Alyson Fraser

17 hours ago

3 min read

Danielle Smith at Rebel News LIVE!

Smith says Alberta may cut taxpayer funding to anti-oil, pro drug distribution advocates

Alyson Fraser

Alyson Fraser

14 hours ago

3 min read

Premier Danielle Smith with Postmedia's Rick Bell on October 16, 2026.

'IT'S BANANAS': Smith questions Carney's quest to join European Union

Will Vasseur

Will Vasseur

14 hours ago

4 min read

Secret cabinet records reveal Chrétien opposed resignation of Quebec lieutenant governor over Nazi scandal

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

18 hours ago

3 min read

WATCH: Spook-tacular ghost stories from Heritage Park’s haunted village

Leah Mushet

Leah Mushet

19 hours ago

3 min read

WITCH OF THE GREAT WHITE NORTH: Maggie Pollock and Canada’s 1919 witch trial

Leah Mushet

Leah Mushet

19 hours ago

5 min read

Alberta election chief proposes keeping existing riding boundaries or delaying 2027 election

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

20 hours ago

2 min read

CREATURES OF CANADA: The mythical monsters of Canada's provinces and territories

Alyson Fraser

Alyson Fraser

20 hours ago

14 min read

Opinion

Quebec and Alberta: two provinces, distinct identities.

THIBAULT: Alberta, let’s not make the same mistake as Quebec

Western Standard Guest Columnist

17 hours ago

3 min read

Wildfire projections cast a costly shadow.

STIRLING: Wildfire freakout — the trillion-dollar wildfire myth

Michelle Stirling

18 hours ago

4 min read

Olivia Chow’s victory over Brad Bradford keeps Toronto’s progressive political machine in motion.

CRESCIA: The illusion of change — the NDP Machine kept Toronto woke and broke

Christopher Oldcorn

19 hours ago

3 min read

Parliament’s painted façade conceals how party leadership and executive power can steer decisions beyond MPs’ effective scrutiny.

AUBUT: Who is really running Canada?

19 hours ago

4 min read

First Nations Chiefs

MORGAN: Repeal the Indian Act and replace it with nothing

20 hours ago

4 min read

BC NDP leader David Eby makes a campaign stop with nurses’ union members in Vancouver, October 22, 2026. One of his last promises before losing the election was to pass a law setting nurse-to-patient ratios in healthcare facilities.

FLETCHER: BC Conservatives must untangle the NDP-union alliance

Western Standard Guest Columnist

21 hours ago

3 min read

Pierre Trudeau, Ivan Rand, and the debate over Canada’s Charter and inherited freedoms.

WAGNER: Canadians sold their birthright of freedom for Pierre Trudeau’s Charter of limitations

30 Oct 2026

4 min read

Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine skepticism is spilling across the border, threatening Canadian public health.

LES: Exporting danger — American vaccine skepticism is leaking into Canada

Western Standard Guest Columnist

30 Oct 2026

4 min read

Watch

Ghosts of Heritage Park

WATCH: Spook-tacular ghost stories from Heritage Park’s haunted village

19 hours ago

3 min read

What? Get rid of the Indian Act?

HANNAFORD: What? Get rid of the Indian Act?

Nigel Hannaford

30 Oct 2026

4 min read

Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy

WATCH: Ontario projects $16.9B deficit as balance date is delayed again

29 Oct 2026

2 min read

Marit Stiles

WATCH: Ontario opposition says it will seek Integrity Commissioner probe of MPP Scott over lobbyist texts

29 Oct 2026

2 min read

Business

Tanker calling at the Westridge Marine Terminal in the Port of Vancouver.

Ottawa fast-tracks $5.9 billion port expansion to boost overseas trade

Western Standard News Services

30 Oct 2026

2 min read

Oil pump jack

Alberta heavy oil discount hits widest level since 2022 as global prices surge

30 Oct 2026

2 min read

Rendering of Meta's Sturgeon County AI data centre.

Sturgeon County official says residents ignored public notices about Meta AI data centre

29 Oct 2026

2 min read

The Vista thermal coal mine near Hinton, Alberta.

Feds abandoned thermal coal export ban without public notice

29 Oct 2026

2 min read

The site of Northback's proposed Grassy Mountain metallurgical coal project in Alberta's Eastern Slopes.

Canada’s coal industry seeks critical mineral status amid growing global steel demand

29 Oct 2026

5 min read

Features

Maggie Pollock's witch trail

WITCH OF THE GREAT WHITE NORTH: Maggie Pollock and Canada’s 1919 witch trial

19 hours ago

5 min read

CREATURES OF CANADA: The mythical monsters of Canada's provinces and territories

CREATURES OF CANADA: The mythical monsters of Canada's provinces and territories

20 hours ago

14 min read