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Carney’s spending makes Trudeau look like a cheapskate
Posted on July 10, 2025Prime Minister Mark Carney was sold to Canadians as the grown-up in the room, the one who’d restore order after Justin Trudeau’s reckless deficits. Instead,… Read More »
Beef is becoming a luxury item in Canada
Posted on July 3, 2025With summer weather settling in, Canadians are returning to a familiar ritual—firing up the barbecue. But as they approach the meat counter, many are faced… Read More »
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 »