TagAlberta
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Continue Reading →: Your Money, Their Rules: The Rise of Debanking
Your Money, Their Rules: The Rise of Debanking
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…
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Continue Reading →: Alberta Builds While Ottawa Fiddles
Alberta Builds While Ottawa Fiddles
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.
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Continue Reading →: The Uniform of Orthodoxy
The Uniform of Orthodoxy
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.
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Continue Reading →: Alberta Must Build a Financial Fortress Now
Alberta Must Build a Financial Fortress Now
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.
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Continue Reading →: Alberta deserves a police force that reflects its values
Alberta deserves a police force that reflects its values
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.
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Continue Reading →: Why the Canada Pension Plan Is a Ponzi Scheme
Why the Canada Pension Plan Is a Ponzi Scheme
The following is an abridgement of chapter 4 in the recently published book Financial Sovereignty for Canadians (March 2024), authored by Fergus Hodgson. It is published here with the author’s kind permission. There is a silver lining to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s pursuit of a provincial pension system. Alberta’s potential departure from the Canada Pension…
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Continue Reading →: Voting for Non-Citizens: Inclusion or Manipulation?
Voting for Non-Citizens: Inclusion or Manipulation?
Granting the vote to non-citizens can be a tactical electoral subterfuge disguised as “inclusion.” The idea of permanent residents voting before (or without) becoming citizens has existed for several years. But does the idea have merit? The Canadian Civil Liberties Union virtually says Canada should do it because countries like Sweden are doing it. In 2018, the Edmonton Journal published…
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Continue Reading →: Toward the Alberta Advantage
Toward the Alberta Advantage
Late in 1978 and early 1979, the Peter Lougheed government embarked on a mission to lower the “small business” income tax in Alberta. This move accompanied Alberta’s withdrawal from a federal tax collection agreement, marking a significant milestone in what we now recognize as The Alberta Advantage. The historical context of Alberta’s departure from the federal…
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Continue Reading →: A smaller caucus presents Smith some advantages
A smaller caucus presents Smith some advantages
Despite reports and comments about the Alberta election results, Smith’s victory with a smaller caucus offers many advantages