Sheila Gunn Reid

One 13-year-old girl allegedly wrote that she felt 'scared' using the washroom, while another student said girls should not have to fear being 'watched or threatened' in shared spaces.

Robbie Picard joins me to discuss the growing backlash from rural Albertans who are tired of being talked down to by people who don't live there, don't work there and won't suffer the economic fallout if these projects are killed.

Albertans upset over equalization, pipeline obstruction, emissions, cancelled projects, and decades of federal hostility toward the energy sector are being told their grievances aren't real; they're just manipulated by Americans on the internet, claims Avi Lewis.

Coyne defended referendums on electoral reform, including proportional representation debates in Ontario and British Columbia. Yet when Alberta's frustrations with Confederation are put before voters, his enthusiasm for direct democracy seems to disappear entirely.

Every time an eastern columnist dismisses Albertans as ignorant, backward, or incapable of understanding their own interests, he reinforces the very sense of alienation driving support for independence.

That question assumes something many Albertans would dispute: that Ottawa has spent decades appeasing Alberta in the first place.

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The former Conservative communications director presents a daunting list of post-independence negotiations, but much of it consists of routine state-building issues, while some items don't even apply to a landlocked province.

The recruitment initiative comes as Canadian colleges and universities face declining international student numbers following federal restrictions on study permits and tighter immigration rules.

A spokeswoman for Elections Alberta explained that because Lukaszuk's proposal did not seek to amend the Constitution or introduce new legislation, the only category available under Alberta law was a policy proposal.