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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…

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…

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…

A reflection on aging, regret, and rediscovering purpose. Author’s Note: I didn’t plan to write this. It came out one evening after hearing “Gone away” by The Offspring. Just a song — one that hit me differently this time. Maybe this piece is just for me. Maybe it’s for anyone who’s realizing, like I am,…

Author’s Note I really don’t have time for things like this. My days are already full—running a business, keeping my café open, raising a family, staying connected to my community. Yet over the past five years, I’ve watched this country slide into something unrecognizable. I’ve watched friends lose their businesses. I’ve watched government officials close…

Alberta stands on the cusp of a prosperous future—indeed, it seems we’ve always been on the brink of something great, just waiting to be seized. Over the past 50 years, it has become increasingly clear that Alberta’s position within the Canadian Confederation has never been equal. What was once considered a fringe or even irrational…

Have you looked at the political landscape across North America lately? If you haven’t, then you must be living under a rock. We’re in some serious trouble up here in the Great White North. Of course, Alberta could be free of much of that trouble, but we’ll save that for later. President Trump has been…

In the midst of destructive environmental activism, often branded by drastic measures against the oil industry, the irony couldn’t be more striking. As a 20+ year veteran of the energy sector across Canada and South America, I’ve observed firsthand the complexities and paradoxes of our modern energy debates. This article aims to shed light on…