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Study finds some federal departments base 100% of job postings on DEI criteria

Leah Mushet

Leah Mushet

7 hours ago

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Elections Alberta provides update on Alberta's referendum unlike any other ever held in Canada

Will Vasseur

Will Vasseur

7 hours ago

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WATCH: Farkas responds with venom to 20.2% tax increase rumour

Myke Thomas

Myke Thomas

8 hours ago

1 min read

TOP 10: Mark Carney memes the internet refuses to stop making

Alyson Fraser

Alyson Fraser

10 hours ago

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Alberta independence debate

Canada West Foundation report warns Alberta independence could carry $206.8 billion startup price tag

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

6 hours ago

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Crystal MacDonald pictured after the incident alongside police officers

Edmonton woman whose dogs killed 11-year-old sentenced to two years' house arrest

Jackson Loy

Jackson Loy

6 hours ago

2 min read

Crystal MacDonald has been sentenced to two years' house arrest minus a day after her dogs killed 11-year-old Kache Gris, Crown prosecutors sought five years imprisonment

News

Alberta independence debate

Canada West Foundation report warns Alberta independence could carry $206.8 billion startup price tag

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

Western Standard News Services

6 hours ago

4 min read

Edmonton woman whose dogs killed 11-year-old sentenced to two years' house arrest

Jackson Loy

Jackson Loy

6 hours ago

2 min read

Elections Alberta says there may be additional scrutineers to balance referendum viewpoints

Will Vasseur

Will Vasseur

6 hours ago

2 min read

Three belugas die at Chicago aquarium within eight days, two from Marineland

Alyson Fraser

Alyson Fraser

6 hours ago

2 min read

A voting sign in Scarborough

PCs hold Hamilton and York—Simcoe; NDP keeps Scarborough in Ford byelections

Geoff Knight

Geoff Knight

11 minutes ago

1 min read

Unofficial: Beattie 38.9% in Hamilton; Lahey projected in York—Simcoe; Shaban holds Scarborough Southwest

Closure notice at "sθəqəlxenəm ts’exwts’áxwi7" (Rainbow) Park, announcing a Squamish Nation community event closed to the general public.

Downtown Vancouver park closed to the public Friday for 'Squamish Nation event'

Alex Zoltan

Alex Zoltan

3 hours ago

2 min read

A Park Board A-frame at Rainbow Park says the 0.8-acre downtown playground will be shut from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday. OneBC’s Jim McMurtry asked how staff will check the ancestry of joggers, dog ...

Elections Alberta provides update on Alberta's referendum unlike any other ever held in Canada

Will Vasseur

Will Vasseur

7 hours ago

3 min read

Study finds some federal departments base 100% of job postings on DEI criteria

Leah Mushet

Leah Mushet

7 hours ago

3 min read

MANHUNT: OPP seeks two Ottawa men for first-degree murder in Perth killing

Geoff Knight

Geoff Knight

8 hours ago

2 min read

WATCH: Farkas responds with venom to 20.2% tax increase rumour

Myke Thomas

Myke Thomas

8 hours ago

1 min read

WATCH: Ford’s $401.4-million Mississauga housing cheque rests on a 90,000-home claim

Geoff Knight

Geoff Knight

9 hours ago

3 min read

Opinion

Really, they'll say anything

HANNAFORD: Really, they'll say anything

Nigel Hannaford

2 hours ago

3 min read

Alberta Certified

DZIADYK: ‘Buy local’ needs a definition — and proof

Sponsored Content

8 hours ago

3 min read

Geography trumps geopolitics — Canada cannot play Beijing off Washington

VU DUC: Geography trumps geopolitics — Canada cannot play Beijing off Washington

Western Standard Guest Columnist

9 hours ago

3 min read

Stop the memes

WATCH LIVE: Carney to Trump administration: ‘Stop doing memes’ and get serious

Western Standard News Services

9 hours ago

1 min read

The Law vs Woke

BLACKETT: The Law Society of Alberta stayed woke — UCP’s new law is helping them hide it

Western Standard Guest Columnist

11 hours ago

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Alberta's Last Chance

MACLEOD: October 19 — Alberta’s last chance

14 hours ago

4 min read

Copying Britain’s broken ‘social cohesion’ model is a suicide mission for Canadian freedom

WHISSELL: Copying Britain’s broken ‘social cohesion’ model is a suicide mission for Canadian freedom

Mavros Whissell

16 hours ago

4 min read

Conservative collapse

WATCH: Are Canada’s Conservatives collapsing?

Derek Fildebrandt

03 Sep 2026

1 min read

Watch

Really, they'll say anything

HANNAFORD: Really, they'll say anything

'Activist campaign against LNG investment rooted in deceit, threatens industry’s benefits, says industry spokeswoman.'

Nigel Hannaford

2 hours ago

3 min read

Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas

WATCH: Farkas responds with venom to 20.2% tax increase rumour

8 hours ago

1 min read

Stop the memes

WATCH LIVE: Carney to Trump administration: ‘Stop doing memes’ and get serious

Western Standard News Services

9 hours ago

1 min read

Ford announced Thursday $400 million for the City of Mississauga through the provincial-federal Development Charge Reduction Program.

WATCH: Ford’s $401.4-million Mississauga housing cheque rests on a 90,000-home claim

9 hours ago

3 min read

Features

From left: Peter Milobar, Rosalyn Bird, Brennan Day, Teresa Wat, Á’a:líya Warbus and Bruce Banman, six of the seven Conservative MLAs who have left Kerry-Lynne Findlay’s caucus since August 14.

IN DEPTH: Hansard does not back claim that Findlay's defectors are ‘secret Liberals’

01 Sep 2026

6 min read

BC Premier David Eby, left, and Prime Minister Mark Carney in a Western Standard photo illustration, with a British Columbia mill yard behind them as the latest Canada-U.S. tariff round hits forestry and household prices.

IN DEPTH: What the tariff war will actually cost British Columbians

27 Aug 2026

6 min read

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