An online news and opinion platform created in October 2019 under the ownership of the Western Standard New Media Corporation. In 2021 it underwent a significant expansion opening bureaus in Victoria, Vancouver, Edmonton, Regina and Winnipeg.
An average of 2.5 million Western Standard articles are read each month by 850,000 individuals.
The publication considers itself a successor to the Alberta Report (a popular Alberta based conservative focused magazine which published from the 1970’s until 2003) and is one of the largest independent media platforms in Canada, based on publicly available data.
Recommended for its western perspective, its professionalism and its independence from the legacy media.