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Albertans must push back against separatist fantasies
Posted on June 12, 2025Talk of Alberta breaking away from Canada is no longer just background noise. It’s getting louder, more organized, and too many reasonable Albertans are staying… Read More »
Canada is falling apart and our leaders don’t seem to care
Posted on June 5, 2025Canada is coming apart—not with a bang, but with a shrug. The signs are everywhere: sluggish growth, rising crime, fractured provinces and governments too paralyzed… Read More »
High grocery bills? Blame Ottawa, not Washington
Posted on May 29, 2025It was expected, but still jarring. In April, food inflation in Canada surged to 3.8 per cent—a full 2.1 percentage points above the national inflation… Read More »
Canada is an energy superpower. So why are we acting like a sidekick?
Posted on May 22, 2025Should Canada be an “energy superhero”? Should an “energy superpower” have “energy super powers”? That space between super and powers matters. This isn’t just wordplay—it’s… Read More »
The U.S. is ditching food dyes. Will Canada follow?
Posted on May 8, 2025The Trump administration is making headlines again, this time for targeting synthetic food dyes in American products. Under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,… Read More »
Donald Trump’s tariffs are backfiring
Posted on May 1, 2025U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariffs on China and other key trading partners are casting a shadow over the global energy market, driving down oil… Read More »
Anti-vax conspiracies fuel Canada’s measles crisis
Posted on April 24, 2025Falling vaccination rates and political silence are fuelling Canada’s growing measles outbreak. Measles, declared eradicated in Canada in 1998, is making a big comeback in… Read More »
Plan to label Trump critics as mentally ill echoes authoritarian regimes
Posted on April 10, 2025In March 2025, New York psychiatrist Dr. Leon Hoffman wrote a letter to The Guardian reporting that the Minnesota legislature had requested the psychiatric community recognize a… Read More »
Poilievre’s path to power just got harder with Carney in the race
Posted on March 27, 2025Overheard in the backrooms of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s campaign team: “Carney? Crap!” “Relax, Jenni. We’ve got plenty of fodder to work with.” Those folks… Read More »
Trump’s tariffs on Canada and Mexico will backfire
Posted on March 13, 2025Make America Great Again. That is what U.S. President Donald Trump and his supporters hope and expect. The slogan suggests a return to a supposedly… Read More »