The Decline of the West

The Decline of the West

ByChristopher Scott

Alberta has lived the consequences of central direction more directly than any province: from the National Energy Program in 1980 to pipeline cancellations, tanker bans and emissions caps aimed squarely at its largest industry. It has also shown that pressure works: the 2025 reversals came because Albertans pushed.
“What Albertans decide about their own future is a question I leave to them. What I ask of every reader: judge the evidence, ask who decides, and do not hand away freedoms that took centuries to win.”

The $442 Billion Headline: What Alberta’s Debt Numbers Actually Say

The $442 Billion Headline: What Alberta’s Debt Numbers Actually Say

Bywhistlestopcafe

Since the School of Public Policy report landed, one comparison has been everywhere: Alberta’s debt is 7.7 per cent of GDP today, and it could be 88.5 per cent after separation. It sounds like independence would multiply our debt eleven times over. It wouldn’t. That comparison stacks three different things on top of each other,…

IT’S TIME WE WERE ASKED

IT’S TIME WE WERE ASKED

ByChristopher Scott

Why Every Argument to Stay Is a Reason to Leave A Let’s Talk Alberta publication Written by Christopher Scott The views presented in this booklet are the personal opinions of Christopher Scott, presented by Let’s Talk Alberta. Figures are drawn from public records — Statistics Canada, the Public Accounts of Canada, the Parliamentary Budget Officer,…

Every Reason to Stay Is a Reason to Leave: The Comprehensive Case for Alberta Independence

Every Reason to Stay Is a Reason to Leave: The Comprehensive Case for Alberta Independence

ByChristopher Scott

An honest answer to every argument Forever Canadian, federalists, academics, and establishment voices are making — for anyone who wants to make an informed decision in October . Compiled from essays at whistlestoptruckstop.ca/blog — including “What Business Have Ye With Me, Your Majesty?”, “Alberta Independence: Necessary and Inevitable,” “Alberta Independence: Rebuttal to a Failed Green…

When Society Replaces Truth With Ideology, Children Pay the Price

When Society Replaces Truth With Ideology, Children Pay the Price

ByChristopher Scott

As you read this, you will have three options. The first is that you can continue to believe you are a meaningless accident in a universe where everything came from nothing, where you evolved from primordial goo, and where existence has no higher purpose beyond survival and self-invention. You can ignore the signs of intelligent…

Bitter Compounds, Bitter Receptors, pHix and the Vagus Nerve

Bitter Compounds, Bitter Receptors, pHix and the Vagus Nerve

ByChristopher Scott

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…

Treaties Were Meant to Free People

Treaties Were Meant to Free People

ByChristopher Scott

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…