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Premier Danielle Smith and Minister of Hospital and Surgical Services of Alberta Adriana LeGrange in Calgary on June 1, 2026.

UCP establishes self-referral regulations for preventative health testing

Will Vasseur

Will Vasseur

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TD Economics says Smith's pipeline would boost Alberta economy, but less than government claims

David Wiechnik

David Wiechnik

1 hour ago

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WATCH: Man stabs three women in Paris, yells 'Allah commanded me'

Jackson Loy

Jackson Loy

1 hour ago

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NDP cabinet minister publicly breaks ranks on Tilbury LNG expansion as Eby’s approval sinks

Alex Zoltan

Alex Zoltan

2 hours ago

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Missing Child Parker

BREAKING: Calgary police scale back ground search for missing boy Parker after 12 days

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RCMP

THE COUGH SYRUP MURDER: Two more charged in 2020 Chestermere homicide

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News

Premier Danielle Smith and Minister of Hospital and Surgical Services of Alberta Adriana LeGrange in Calgary on June 1, 2026.

UCP establishes self-referral regulations for preventative health testing

Will Vasseur

Will Vasseur

45 minutes ago

3 min read

TD Economics says Smith's pipeline would boost Alberta economy, but less than government claims

David Wiechnik

David Wiechnik

1 hour ago

3 min read

WATCH: Man stabs three women in Paris, yells 'Allah commanded me'

Jackson Loy

Jackson Loy

1 hour ago

2 min read

NDP cabinet minister publicly breaks ranks on Tilbury LNG expansion as Eby’s approval sinks

Alex Zoltan

Alex Zoltan

2 hours ago

2 min read

Missing Child Parker

BREAKING: Calgary police scale back ground search for missing boy Parker after 12 days

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

19 minutes ago

2 min read

RCMP

THE COUGH SYRUP MURDER: Two more charged in 2020 Chestermere homicide

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

39 minutes ago

2 min read

WATCH: Spanish man hospitalized after being repeatedly stomped in the head by migrant

Alyson Fraser

Alyson Fraser

2 hours ago

1 min read

Italy looking to extradite Ontario man over mob links

Jackson Loy

Jackson Loy

2 hours ago

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Suspect dead after Abbotsford police shooting and Hwy. 1 pursuit, second man still at large

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RCMP urged to reopen Flight PS752 criminal probe after records reveal Trudeau meeting

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26 Jul 2026

2 min read

Brazil recalls ambassador after Argentina's Milei calls President Lula a ‘thief’

Walid Tamtam

Walid Tamtam

2 hours ago

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Opinion

Frances Widdowson

QUESNEL: Taxpayer-funded universities can't keep picking winners and losers in free speech

3 hours ago

3 min read

John A. MacDonald statue

AMERNIC: Cowardice of wrecking ball revisionism — an Ontario town’s war on the John A. MacDonald statue

Western Standard Guest Columnist

7 hours ago

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Church

PRINGLE: Canada's churches face a defining choice — obey the government or defend biblical truth

Brandon Pringle - Guest Columnist

26 Jul 2026

3 min read

House of Mirrors

AUBUT: Canada’s house of mirrors — why our democracy is built on a lie

26 Jul 2026

9 min read

Opaskwayak Cree Nation Chief Maureen Brown shoots the flaming arrow as part of the opening ceremonies at the community's annual Opaskwayak Indigenous Days celebration, the first woman to do so. Cory Morgan makes the case that Western independence would work well for Indigenous people

MORGAN: It's time to defund the Assembly of First Nations

26 Jul 2026

3 min read

Car crash downtown Calgary

McCOURT: UCP no-fault insurance scheme unjust, unnecessary, unconservative, un-Albertan

Western Standard Guest Columnist

25 Jul 2026

3 min read

Protestors were present on Friday night but they were in the overwhelming minority.

BARCLAY: The modern witch hunt for ‘the Conservative’ in Canada

William Barclay

25 Jul 2026

3 min read

Wildfires

PINDER: Canada's wildfires are fueling climate politics — and Alberta's independence movement

25 Jul 2026

3 min read

Watch

Man apprehended by bystanders after stabbing three women in Paris

WATCH: Man stabs three women in Paris, yells 'Allah commanded me'

Three women stabbed, two hospitalised in critical condition, after knife-wielding man launches attack in northern Paris

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Graphic video of a brutal assault near Valencia, Spain, has gone viral after appearing to show a man repeatedly stomping on another man's head.

WATCH: Spanish man hospitalized after being repeatedly stomped in the head by migrant

2 hours ago

1 min read

A group of orcas has been filmed using a newly documented feeding behavior known as "ram-to-fragment.''

WATCH: Orcas ram giant sunfish until it shatters into thousands of pieces

24 Jul 2026

1 min read

In a first for Canada, the TTC and other transit systems will grand special constables the authority to make arrests

WATCH: Ontario expands transit constable powers to arrest for illegal drug use

24 Jul 2026

3 min read

Features

With the clock continuing to tick towards the inevitable October referendum on Alberta independence, a historical anecdote keeps resurfacing from the federalist camp as a cautionary tale — one that’s more nuanced than some let on.

IN-DEPTH: Did Quebec sovereignty drive BMO and businesses from Montreal? History gives a complicated answer

25 Jul 2026

7 min read

Sports betting ads appear everywhere, including on this billboard at BMO Field in Toronto.

IN-DEPTH: Alberta's pathway to third-party iGaming

11 Jul 2026

4 min read

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