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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 →: 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 →: 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 →: Government is Addicted to Your Obedience: Why Citizens Must Reject Bans
Government is Addicted to Your Obedience: Why Citizens Must Reject Bans
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…
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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 →: Back to 1977: Carney Turning Back the Clock on Free Expression
Back to 1977: Carney Turning Back the Clock on Free Expression
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…
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Continue Reading →: Veto Nation: Carney’s Vision Is a Curse on Unity
Veto Nation: Carney’s Vision Is a Curse on Unity
Unity isn’t built by handing out vetoes like Halloween candy. But that’s precisely what Prime Minister Mark Carney proposes for Canada: a governance structure for major projects so Balkanized, so suffocatingly fractured, that it makes the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth’s liberum veto look like an efficient bureaucracy (more on this below). Carney wants every Premier and…
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Continue Reading →: Canada’s New Thin-Skinned Saviour?
Canada’s New Thin-Skinned Saviour?
New Prime Minister Mark Carney’s awkward debut with Canada’s press corps reveals a man unready for the rigours of political life. Accustomed to elite deference, Carney bristled at even friendly media questions, displaying arrogance, condescension, and a sense that Canada owes him. If he struggles with CBC softball, how will he handle Question Period? As…