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Saskatchewan’s new government is receiving a warm reception from Conservative governments in both Edmonton and Ottawa. The morning after the Saskatchewan general election – where the Sask. Party took 38 of 58 seats – was a bright one for Lloyd Snelgrove, Alberta MLA and cabinet minister. “With the new premier and the new attitude in government, I think the future for the prairies – for Western Canada – has never been brighter than it is this morning,” said Snelgrove, MLA for Lloydminster-Vermilion and President of the Treasury. With the Sask. Party generally seen as the more right-wing party in the...

Stéphane Dion, who came from fourth-place standing to win the leadership of Canada's Liberal Party early this month, declared immediate war on the minority Conservative government last week, and made it clear he is determined to force a late-winter election. Implicitly, he made something else clear. He will attack the government on two principal issues, both of them integral to Canadian-American relations. One is the Kyoto Treaty, the other the Canadian role in Afghanistan. If he wins the election, therefore, America's northern neighbor will once again become vaguely hostile territory, as it was under the last Liberal government. On Kyoto,...

Canadians who for the last 15 or so years have been enjoined to celebrate a Politically Correct Christmas – no mention of Christ, Bethlehem, shepherds, angels etc., no wishing people "Merry Christmas" – are to be endowed this year with a purely political one. When the Liberal minority government of Prime Minister Paul Martin lost a confidence vote in the Commons last Tuesday (171-133), this triggered an election set for Jan. 23, with a predictably bitter campaign raging right through the holiday period. Superficially, the present polls indicate the return of a Liberal minority government. If the vote were held...

A federal judge proclaimed last week that in the final years of Canada's Chretien government, untold millions of dollars were channeled from the treasury into the bank accounts of the federal Liberal Party, several Liberal-friendly advertising agencies and a few senior party backroom gentry in Montreal. His report was viewed with alarm by the media, the politicians and the pundits – by everybody, it seemed, except the Canadian people. They knew that already. They had gathered it conclusively from a report of the auditor-general three years ago, and reaffirmed it in the testimony of the sordid parade of Liberal insiders...

There seems to be some misunderstanding about where Ralph got the surplus cash he's handing out to Albertans My 16-year-old daughter tends not to pay much attention to the front page of the newspaper, usually flipping to the latest news on Brad and Angelina or to Dilbert's daily dose of cubicle irony. This pattern was interrupted the other day, however, when Alice accosted me at the coffee maker, waving a copy of the liberal Edmonton Journal, whose headline read, and I paraphase, "Klein Announces Prosperity Bonuses (the Dork)." "When," she demanded, "do I get my $400?" Now, mornings are not...

Secession of the West: Is it time? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: September 3, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Alberta and Saskatchewan marked their 100th anniversary as Canadian provinces last Thursday, precisely two months after a poll found that 41 percent of Albertans and 31.9 percent of Saskatchewanites thought that "Western Canadians should begin to explore the idea of forming their own country." The results in the other two western provinces were lower – 30.8 percent in British Columbia and 27.5 percent in Manitoba – but all four figures nevertheless ran much higher than anything shown in previous polls on "western...

Kevin Steel of the Western Standard has composed a more accurate red-blue map of the United States and Canada. http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2004/11/a_canadian_guid.html It takes in to account the state by state breakdown of the US Election, and takes in to account the Conservative/ Liberal-Socialist-Separatist split in the last Canadian election. The red is Republican (US), Conservative (Canada) The blue is Democrat (US), Liberal/ NDP (Canada) The light blue are the Quebec separatists As an Alberta conservative, I like this map much better than the others. We out in western Canada don't get lumped in with our Kanuckistani cosuins.

Liberal MPs flay 'arrogant' President Personal attacks on Bush in House counterproductive, Manley says later Ottawa — Many angry Liberal backbenchers are making it personal, denouncing U.S. President George W. Bush with words such as petulant, arrogant, jingoistic and even hypocritical. He's being characterized as a leader who dangerously mixes religion and politics and who seems to have something to prove. The dam broke and a flood of anti-Bush sentiment flowed from the privacy of the Liberal government caucus room to the floor of the Commons after Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's announcement that Canada will not support a U.S. invasion...