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This fall, the Alberta government invoked the notwithstanding clause to force teachers back to work. Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party government used the constitutional provision to override teachers’ charter rights to end an impasse with locked out teachers. The historic strike began Oct. 6 when 51,000 educators walked out …

It’s been hard to keep track of how many legal challenges and active court proceedings the United Conservative government has tried to quash or pre-emptively block in the last six weeks, but let’s try to tally: The notwithstanding clause to thwart separate constitutional challenges by the Canadian Medical Association (1) …

You don’t need to be a Preston-Manning-like soothsayer to imagine western separatist sentiment ticks upward if the Liberals win re-election. You just need to remember 2019 and the Wexit movement. Justin Trudeau’s Liberals narrowly won a second term that fall, and disgruntled Albertans and Saskatchewanians self-branded a separatist movement after the …

A First Nations leader in Alberta is questioning Premier Danielle Smith’s claim of Indigenous heritage. Smith has said she has some Cherokee roots and years ago declared herself as a person of mixed race. Chief Tony Alexis of Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation, west of Edmonton, said on Friday that a …

EDITOR’S NOTE: CBC News and The Road Ahead commissioned this public opinion research in mid-October, starting six days after Danielle Smith won the leadership of the United Conservative Party. As with all polls, this one is a snapshot in time.  This analysis is one in a series of articles to …

In an anxious fantasy sequence in an episode of The Simpsons, young Lisa Simpson imagines playing saxophone at a rock concert as the audience pelts her band with jeers. She snaps out of the daydream, asking: “Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?” This scene came …