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The job market is screaming for people to work so that's not why they are still in welfare. I wouldn't be taking care of my kids 5 years after they got out of school and I am sure I don't want my tax dollars babysitting immigrants. The LEAST they can be doing is be volunteering their time and I believe that should be part of the rules for coming here, you have to put in volunteer hours, you can't just come here and squat. Other criteria needs to be NO single men priority given exclusively to men with families.
https://tnc.news/2024/01/25/syrian-refugees-still-reliant-on-social-assistance/
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ALBERS: Something big is beginning to grow in Alberta independence movement
What I saw in a two-block line for independence and why the legacy media looked away.
Thousands of Alberta independence supporters took part in the Alberta Prosperity Projects "I Am Alberta" rally this Saturday October 25, 2025.
Thousands of Alberta independence supporters took part in the Alberta Prosperity Projects "I Am Alberta" rally this Saturday October 25, 2025. Alberta Prosperity Project
Western Standard Guest Columnist
Western Standard Guest Columnist
Published on:
15 Jan 2026, 5:30 am
James Albers is a Calgary-based management consultant specializing in leadership development.
It was an ordinary Saturday night in my hometown of Calgary. Nothing about the evening announced itself as historic. No banners. No blaring slogans. Just a community hall, a few speakers, and a petition on a table.
I had invited my wife, of decidedly unpolitical temperament, to join me at the Queensland Community Hall to hear speakers on Alberta independence and to add our names to ...
https://www.westernstandard.news/opinion/albers-something-big-is-beginning-to-grow-in-alberta-independence-movement/70366
“But history does not require permission to unfold.
After years of weighing the costs and the consequences of Confederation, it appears Albertans are reaching a conclusion.
No hoopla. No posturing.
Just the calm, collective realization that a decision must be made.
This is history, quietly forming. This is your moment.
Your neighbours are stepping out and stepping up.
It is time for you to do the same.”
It was an ordinary Saturday night in my hometown of Calgary. Nothing about the evening announced itself as historic.
No banners.
No blaring slogans. Just a community hall, a few speakers, and a petition on a table.
I had invited my wife, of decidedly unpolitical temperament, to join me at the Queensland Community Hall to hear speakers on Alberta independence and to add our names to the referendum petition. Full disclosure: I had already signed on as a canvasser.
My wife, who had never attended anything remotely like this before, ...
