Decoding Politics
Jared WesleyI write about political culture, public opinion, public policy, and political institutions in Canada. Most of my commentary centres on Alberta and the West.
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Alberta: the jilted lover of Confederation
This is a written version of a talk I delivered to the Rideau Club Roundtable in Ottawa, June 3, 2026.
Thank you for the invitation to join you today. I’m a political scientist at the University of Alberta, and I lead the Common Ground pr...
Challenging the 300K Claim
The Alberta separatist movement has claimed many victories to this point. None bigger than creating the perception that it already commands mass support without objective proof.
The oft-repeated claim that organizers gathered roughly 300,0...
This is Danielle Smith's referendum.
Danielle Smith can no longer pretend she’s being dragged toward an Alberta independence referendum by legal or political necessity.
She’s the one dragging the province and the country further down that road, with the latest milestone bein...
Pipeline or referendum: she can't have both
Danielle Smith's two biggest ambitions are incompatible.
She can have a separatism referendum, or she can have a pipeline to the West Coast. But the former makes the latter all but impossible.
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Premier Smith is normalizing separatism
Today’s court ruling appears to prevent Elections Alberta from validating signatures on the Alberta independence petition while the matter proceeds through the courts. Premier Danielle Smith says her government will appeal, a process that c...
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Jared Wesley is a professor of political science and member of the Black Faculty Collective at the University of Alberta.
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