A Canadian friend of mine, who is currently teaching in China, recently sent me an interesting video. It recorded a dark-skinned man who spoke perfect English, telling how he and his family, in 1996, immigrated to Canada. They “went through the process,” legally, to become Canadian citizens, working hard, earning what they got, and honoring the country. That kind of immigrant most countries don’t mind having.
But, he said, “it was a whole lot different back then.”
In 2026, resentment with Canada is reaching a fever pitch in Alberta. Today, voters will head to the polls for a “separation referendum.” The question is simple: Should Alberta remain a part of Canada, or should it leave?
While the results are non-binding and the Ottawa establishment will likely attempt to ignore them, the decision could be historic. If Alberta votes to leave, it could join the United States and would be one of its crowning assets — initially as a territory, with a clear pathway to statehood. If it votes to leave, Washington should welcome it.
Officials were aware of a fire at CFB Wainwright for several hours before it rapidly spread toward a training area where soldiers were taking part in exercises, killing four Canadian Armed Forces members and wounding dozens of others.
Maj-Gen. L.W. Rutland told reporters during a briefing on Sunday afternoon that the fire broke out as soldiers were taking part in a training exercise ahead of deployment to Latvia.
Friend @Martyupnorth says that the government’s Earthquakes Canada website recorded a 3.7m event in Wainwright as our warriors were dying.
Prime Minister @MarkJCarney and other officials only talk of a fast moving fire – not an explosion.
At this point I’m not sure what the truth is, but the fact is this – I no longer trust or believe the highest institutions and offices in the land.
I require independent verification and credible corroboration for anything that comes from public officials whether appointed or elected.
This is where we are now in Canada.
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) October 19, 2026
Albertans are going to the polls to decide their place in Canada, in a referendum that has exposed deep divisions within the province, not least in the separatist movement itself.
On Monday, voters will respond to the question of whether Alberta should remain in Canada, or hold a second, binding independence referendum.
A minority have long argued that separation is the only way to address their belief that Alberta is short-changed by its financial relationship with Ottawa, and prevented from fully exploiting the province’s vast fossil fuel reserves.
There’s a nightmare that keeps one of NATO’s most senior military commanders up at night and it’s not what you might think.
It isn’t the idea of Russian tanks rolling into the Baltic states or Poland. Nor is it a sudden military confrontation in the Arctic.
The scenario that keeps NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation Pierre Vandier up at night is the notion of the Western military alliance being caught unprepared and unable to keep up with the pace of technological innovation that’s happening on the modern battlefield.
Another side of that same fear …
A much-overlooked element of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government’s new Building Canada Strong Act is major labour relations reforms that will bring about more predictability in the federal government’s responses to significant labour disputes.
Over the past three years, Canada has seen several labour disputes that have affected Canadians and our country’s reputation as a reliable international trading partner. We’ve seen rail, port and airline stoppages, all of which have affected Canadians, our economy and our ability to trade internationally.
Canada, I’m sorry to say, is already over. It was a nice run, and as a nation, we had so much promise. We did a lot of good, especially in the two World Wars. Our foundations were very good. But that is over now. I’m as Canadian as possible; apparently, my ancestor ten generations back was one of the first 100 European men to arrive on our shores and survive the first winter. So it is not easy to admit this. Many Albertans are not happy about it either. But that will not change the situation.
Facing renewed separatist ideation and agitation in Quebec and Alberta, a new national public opinion poll says Canadians feel a strong attachment to their country — stronger than to their province — and share an abiding affinity for fellow Canadians, no matter where they live.
With Albertans voting Monday in a referendum asking whether the province should begin the process of holding a vote on separating from Canada and a separatist government elected in Quebec earlier this month, Canadian unity is again eating up airtime, timelines and headlines.
Taxpayers just won a big court victory against Ottawa’s ‘No More Pipelines’ law. The Alberta Court of Appeal slapped Ottawa back into its lane, ruling that the federal law that lets it interfere with the development of provincial natural resources is still unconstitutional.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In recent weeks, we’ve learned that Canadian military leaders war-gamed U.S. military action against Canada earlier this year, with Prime Minister Mark Carney having described it as an “extreme tail risk,” in an interview last month with the New York Times.
OTTAWA — Less than three weeks after the FBI added a fugitive accused of ordering the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, British Columbia, to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, another Sikh separatist leader tied to the Nijjar case and identified as the target of a U.S. murder-for-hire plot says agents have warned him of a threat to his life ahead of a Khalistan Referendum vote in Edmonton on Sunday.
Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, general counsel for Sikhs For Justice, said in a statement to The Bureau that the agents came to see him in person.
Four days before the latest test of this 159-year-old Confederation — a nation that has given the world both insulin and Céline Dion — Mark Carney went to Calgary to make the case for carrying on.
“Canada isn’t perfect, but we are the best,” he said. “And we are getting better.”
A day before Carney arrived, Naheed Nenshi, the leader of Alberta NDP and the former mayor of Calgary, was asked what he wanted to hear from the prime minister. Nenshi said Carney needed to make the argument that “Canada works.”
Canada works for grifters not Canadians.
One of the ringleaders of the thwarted Toronto 18 terror plot has been granted full parole after the Parole Board of Canada found he no longer showed “any signs of holding onto extremist beliefs or radical ideologies.”
Zakaria Amara, who helped recruit members for a group that aimed to storm Parliament Hill and bomb several locations around Toronto, has been on day parole with multiple conditions for four years, and the board upgraded his release after reviewing his case last week.
h/t Mauser
While working as a scrutineer at a Calgary polling place, I calculated that about 50% of voters were visible minorities. They included Southeast Asian, Indian, Filipino, Eastern European, Middle Eastern, Black, and Chinese voters, among others. About 95% of voters presented Alberta driver’s licences. It was an informal observation, but it raised a straightforward question. Canadian citizenship is required to vote. Why, then, does that not have to be proven at the ballot box?
U.S. President Donald Trump is hitting the campaign trail as Republican candidates across the country face tough races in the midterm elections, and he has fallen back on a familiar target – Canada.
During a campaign rally in Arizona on Wednesday, Trump revived his rhetoric on wanting Canada to be “51st state” of the United States.
