'Wexit' should heed pitfalls faced by other separatist movements: experts

Recent secessionist movements in the world offer few encouraging examples to western Canadians who are miffed at the federal government and think they'd be better off living in a separate country. "Wexit" -- an apparent play on the nickname for the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union -- was in few Canadians' lexicons before October when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals were re-elected, but reduced to a minority and shut out of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Paul Hamilton, a politica