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Why the Signal Matters, Why PHIX Is Different, and What We’re Seeing in Real Life Bitter compounds have played a role in human diets for thousands of years. Long before modern food processing removed bitterness in favor of sweet and salty, humans regularly consumed bitter plants that signaled the body to prepare for digestion, regulate…

How Ottawa Turned Survival Agreements into Chains — and Why Some Leaders Now Defend Them The modern story told about treaties is emotionally powerful, politically useful, and historically incomplete. We’re taught to see the Numbered Treaties as instruments of permanent confinement—agreements that subordinated Indigenous peoples under Ottawa’s “protective” thumb forever. Challenge that federal role, and…

Alberta Independence is often misrepresented. This essay rebuts a failed Green Party candidate’s claims using international law, Supreme Court precedent, and historical reality.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…