In the tariff crisis of 2025, Canada tested its mettle, and the result was revealing. At the center stood Premier Danielle Smith, who chose steady, substantive leadership over juvenile posturing and theatrical bravado. Ottawa’s Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi indulged in overly-inflated martial rhetoric and fear-driven posturing.
Ezra Levant kindly invited me to talk about the debanking issue this week. [The interview is available here →]. Debanking refers to the closure of individuals’ or organizations’ bank accounts by financial institutions that perceive them as financial, legal, regulatory, or reputational risks—often carried out without explanation or the possibility of appeal. As the Cambridge…
In Canada, property rights rest on sand. The Charter omits them, the courts neglect them, and the political class scarcely defends them. Alberta stands out as somewhat of an exception. Its political culture, still rooted in autonomy and suspicion of distant power, makes property more secure than elsewhere. That uniqueness must be preserved and fortified…
When Susan Holt, Premier of New Brunswick, explained why New Brunswickers couldn’t go for a walk in the woods, she probably thought she was being reasonable. After all, she was talking about safety, and who could be against safety? Her tone was casual, a little hesitant, almost folksy, as if she were explaining to a…
Well-meaning Laurentians should think about leading by example. They should consider building a Canada that Albertans and all Canadians, including the gullible “elbows-up” folks, would be proud to belong to.
Announcing an announcement—it’s theatrics, not statesmanship. And doing so to bait a foreign leader and deflect political failure is manipulative and calculating, not courageous.
What Habel’s statement confirms is what many suspected: the RCMP is as captured an institution under Prime Minister Carney as it was under Justin Trudeau. It treats ideological defection from radical gender theory as a threat vector.
Ottawa’s Emergencies Act abuses and banks’ actions show dissenters can be de‑banked without charges. Alberta must fortify ATB, assert sovereignty, and guarantee financial rights to protect Albertans from federal overreach.
Sgt. Habel seriously, not because she speaks truth, but because she speaks for power. Her words reveal how deeply progressive ideology has colonized public institutions. Where once dissent was tolerated, now doubt itself is a diagnostic tool.
The speech was a signal. It reframed online speech regulation not as civil protection, but as patriotic duty. The villain was not abusive content, but the United States. The logic is as straightforward as it is cynical: use anti-American rhetoric to justify the revival of laws that target the fundamental rights of Canadians. By casting…