If Pierre Poilievre is any indication, Alberta’s federalists facing serious problem

July 29, 2026

Richard Warnica/Toronto Star: The movement that drove separation into the mainstream in Alberta, the one that toppled Poilievre’s old colleague Jason Kenney as premier and installed Danielle Smith in his place, did not stem from economic grievance. It grew out of COVID and the convoy movement, and was explicitly fuelled, on an organizational level, by far-right conspiracies and misinformation…