Why First Nations Stand to Benefit the Most in an Independent Alberta
This debate is usually framed in a way that avoids the one thing that actually matters: results. This conversation is almost always framed to avoid the one thing that actually matters: outcomes. Whenever Alberta independence is raised, we’re told it threatens First Nations, violates treaties, or risks chaos. That framing assumes the current system is…
Bearing Witness: On the Birth of the Freedom Convoy and the Character of Those Who Carried It
Truth waits for the brave My close affiliation with Chris Barber and Tamara Lich has cost me business relationships and professional affiliations. I wouldn’t change that for anything. These are two genuinely good, caring, and selfless people. If everyone around me turned on me tomorrow for standing with them, I would still do it without…
pHix, Bitter Compounds, and the Vagus Nerve
Why I went looking, what I found, and why it surprised me Most people think gut health is about digestion. It isn’t. Your gut is a sensory organ. It constantly communicates with your brain through one of the most important nerves in your body: the vagus nerve. This nerve plays a major role in regulating…
Education Before Emotion: Why Alberta’s Next Chapter Depends on What We Learn Now
Everything that unfolds in Alberta from this point forward, in relation to the Citizen Initiative Petition initiated by Mitch Sylvestre, will expose two unavoidable realities. First, it will reveal the depth of our collective misunderstanding. Not just about one issue, but about civics, government structure, constitutional law, Indigenous rights, and even who we are as…
Alberta and Ontario: GDP, Fiscal Balance, and Structural Risk in the Canadian Federation
This blog examines the economic relationship between Alberta, Ontario, and the Canadian federation through the lenses of GDP, sectoral composition, population-adjusted productivity, and federal fiscal flows. While Ontario is Canada’s largest provincial economy in absolute terms, Alberta consistently exhibits significantly higher GDP per capita and a more goods-producing, export-oriented economic structure. Conventional GDP comparisons often…
Christmas-the Gift, and Why We Give
It’s Christmas. Most of us feel it in familiar ways. The lights, the music, the gatherings, the gifts. We give more at this time of year than at any other. We give to family, friends, neighbors, even strangers. And almost no one needs to be convinced to do it. That should tell us something. Christmas…
When Loving Good Becomes Illegal: Bill C-9 and the Criminalization of Moral Conviction
Canada has long claimed to value freedom of conscience, belief, and expression. Yet legislation like Bill C-9 suggests those freedoms are becoming conditional. Framed as protection against “hate,” the bill risks criminalizing something much older than modern legal categories: the duty to reject evil and uphold what is good. For Christians and many other faith…
When Mercy Becomes Conditional, Justice Is Already Dead
Earlier this week, I shared the story of Universal Ostrich Farm in Edgewood, BC — a family farm whose flock was ordered to be destroyed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). These birds had survived H5N1 avian influenza, recovered, and were producing antibodies in their eggs that could have had real value for animal…
What Business Have Ye With Me, Your Majesty?
Author’s Note It is only through advanced technology that I was able to prepare this blog. If you consider the amount of information I would have had to go through just to start, it is mind boggling. I started with a theory-Canada was not founded for the people, rather, it was created for the Crowns…