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Continue Reading →: The Separation Meme That Gets the Constitution Wrong
The Separation Meme That Gets the Constitution Wrong
An anonymous infographic claims Alberta separation is constitutionally illegitimate because treaties and Confederation came first. This brief argues otherwise: Canada’s Constitution permits secession negotiations, treaties include land cession clauses, and constitutional arrangements have repeatedly changed through negotiation and democratic consent.
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Continue Reading →: The Trials of Liberty: What the Truckers Taught Canada About Power and Protest
The Trials of Liberty: What the Truckers Taught Canada About Power and Protest
This Thanksgiving I am grateful for many things. The truckers who stood up to injustice are among them. When the first rigs rolled toward Ottawa in January 2022, the air was sharp, but not as sharp as the mood of the men and women behind the wheels. They were not radicals. Seeing a CBC disinformation…
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Continue Reading →: The Grocery Greed Myth
The Grocery Greed Myth
“It’s not okay that our biggest grocery stores are making record profits while Canadians are struggling to put food on the table.” —PM Justin Trudeau, September 13, 2023. A couple of days after the above statement, the then-prime minister and his government continued a campaign to blame rising food prices on grocery retailers. The line…
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Continue Reading →: Inclusion and Disorder: Unlearned Lessons from Palestinian Protests
Inclusion and Disorder: Unlearned Lessons from Palestinian Protests
Canada’s obsession with “inclusion” has eroded civic discipline and blurred the line between free speech and coercion. Sweden, once equally naive, regained balance by restoring boundaries between citizenship, responsibility, and national coherence.
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Continue Reading →: Bill C-9 and the Tyranny of Feeling
Bill C-9 and the Tyranny of Feeling
When governments turn offence into law, liberty collapses into whimsical sentiment. Canada risks importing Britain’s mistakes, just as J.D. Vance warned Europe in Munich.
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Continue Reading →: No Permission Required: Alberta Will Protect Its Daughters
No Permission Required: Alberta Will Protect Its Daughters
Alberta’s wish to invoke Section 33 to defend women and girls from judicial overreach is legitimate. The clause is a democratic tool, not a flaw—essential to protect provincial sovereignty and biological reality.
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Continue Reading →: Break the Fences, Keep the Frontier
Break the Fences, Keep the Frontier
Alberta leads Canada in prosperity by dismantling barriers, but old guilds and new obstacles—subsidies, DEI mandates, and debanking—threaten progress. To remain the frontier, Alberta must keep tearing down walls and driving economic freedom forward.
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Continue Reading →: Canada’s Elite Mock Alberta, While the U-Hauls Keep Coming
Canada’s Elite Mock Alberta, While the U-Hauls Keep Coming
Alberta is mocked as Canada’s land of hicks and hydrocarbon heretics. But migration data since COVID tells another story: Canadians keep moving East of the Rockies. For decades, Alberta has carried the caricature imposed on it by the national press and Ottawa’s political class. According to the story told in Toronto and Ottawa, Alberta is…
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Continue Reading →: Jobs South, Politics North: The Crown Royal Lesson
Jobs South, Politics North: The Crown Royal Lesson
This Crown Royal decision rhymes with another headline you may remember: Brookfield Asset Management’s move to re-domicile a subsidiary in New York.
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Continue Reading →: Good Sense Beats Team Canada’s Hysteria
Good Sense Beats Team Canada’s Hysteria
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.