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Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Referendum? What Referendum?

A constitutional expert argues that the federal insistence on clarity has paid off

The Grey Plateau

When the world stopped five years ago

Asa McKercher

Asa McKercher is the Steven K. Hudson Research Chair in Canada-US Relations at the Brian Mulroney Institute of Government at St. Francis Xavier University, in Nova Scotia.

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King without a Crown

Essays on a defining prime minister May 2026
In June 2024, a statue of Sir Winston Churchill was unveiled in Calgary, joining other monuments to the former British prime minister in Halifax, Toronto, and Edmonton. In Quebec City, meanwhile, a bust of Churchill squares off against Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the American president who met his counterpart for two wartime conferences held at the Château Frontenac and the…