West of Centre

CBC

Canada is complicated. Alberta has opinions. Ride shotgun with host Kathleen Petty on West of Centre for conversations about the state of politics in Canada, as power and influence shifts West. Whether you live here or just can't look away, you’ll get the no-nonsense analysis you need to make sense of it all.

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West of Centre

Episodes (158)

Friday How Alberta’s federalist push is lagging
Fri Sep 11th Alberta separatists think they’ll win. Polls project a loss
Fri Sep 4th Too friendly to resist: Danielle Smith’s U.S. diplomacy

West of Centre

Sep 18, 2026
30 minutes
30 MB

It’s crunch time to sway conservative voters ahead of Alberta’s referendum. But are federalist leaders doing enough? So far, separatists have reported raising nearly three times as much money as federalists and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has pushed the unity file to another Alberta MP. Host Kathleen Petty and former Conservative MP Damien Kurek look at what needs to happen in the final weeks and what’s at stake if federalist get-out-the vote efforts fall flat. Plus, journalists Alex Boyd and Matthew Scace on why separatists seem to be more organized when it com...

West of Centre

How Alberta’s federalist push is lagging

CBC

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