Western separatism is no longer about just protesting, said the new interim leader of Wexit Canada.

Jason Friesen has withdrawn from the contest to be the next Saskatoon mayor, meaning Rob Norris is running unopposed.

A veteran politician who once served as House leader in Stephen Harper’s Conservative government was named the interim leader of a political party seeking for Western Canada to secede from the rest of the country.

The Alberta government said Saturday that its "Fair Deal Panel" has submitted its final report but it will not be released "until the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is over."

Members of the Freedom Conservative Party and the Wexit Alberta group will vote June 29 on whether to unite into one political party.

A group calling for Western Canada to separate from the rest of the country has applied for official party status in Saskatchewan.

He recalled the 1960s and 70s, when radical separatists with the Front de liberation du Quebec (FLQ) were setting off bombs, kidnapped the British trade commissioner and killed a Quebec cabinet minister.

The last several weeks, Roy Green writes, serve as a case in point.

The Buffalo Declaration was signed and released by four Alberta MPs on Thursday.

Four Conservative MPs have published an online manifesto decrying what they call the unfair treatment of Alberta within Confederation and a lack of acknowledgement that the province is a "culturally distinct region."