Recent Research
Scapegoating and Separatists
Why Immigration Is on the Ballot in October
Five out of the 10 questions in Alberta’s 2026 referendum are directly related to immigration. Why immigration? What does it have to do with separatism? Built around unsupported claims, fabricated terms, and spurious logic, the “immigration questions” draw on racist tropes taken directly from the separatists’ playbook. This report shows that immigration is not a “distraction” from the issues of separatism on the ballot; instead, it is integral to the separatist project.
When Bill 11 passed in December 2025, Alberta became the first province to legislate two-tier health care — a system that gives faster access to those who can pay and longer waits for those who can’t afford to jump the queue — for medically necessary services. This report shows how the Health Statutes Amendment Act puts Canadian medicare at risk and opens the door for American health insurance corporations to enter the Canadian market.
Recent Blog Posts
The current separatist wave in Alberta might lead some to conclude that it is a natural result of legitimate anger by Albertans toward Ottawa. This article takes a close look at what is actually behind this movement and finds that Alberta's separatism is rather a result of the ongoing campaign by Alberta's leaders to increase the profitability of the province's oil and gas companies.
In a health-care emergency, wait times can be a matter of life or death. A recent visit to the Emergency Department at an Edmonton hospital highlighted the degree to which the long list of policies implemented by the Alberta government — ostensibly intended to fix health care — have only served to exacerbate the overlapping crises facing the system.
The West Wants Out
A Manufactured Threat From an Old Playbook
Alberta separatism is all over the news — but is it an emerging threat or just a rehash of the many separatist waves that hit Western Canada in the past? This article examines the history of separatism and so-called western alienation, and argues that it's never been a real threat, but rather a tool used by governing parties to win concessions for their friends and distract from their own policy failures.