Canadian Politics

The Politics of Bottled Water - Why Canadian Voters Swear the Same Policies Taste Better with a Liberal Label

Why Conservative Policies Became Acceptable Only After Liberals Claimed Them — with thanks to Anna Roberts, my MP, who answers her own phone.

Jan 19 • Freedom To Offend

Grievance Elves vs. Meritocratic Mythmakers: A Tale of Societal Hubris

Identity politics and meritocracy, it doesn't have to be one or the other.

Dec 3, 2025 • Freedom To Offend

Remember Mickey Ward

We cannot be completely sure how this will end. Bring on the last round.

Dec 1, 2025 • Freedom To Offend

The Maple Leaf Delusion

How a once-rational nation became addicted to its own apologies — and mistook self-loathing for virtue. The indigenous historical defamation.

Nov 26, 2025 • Freedom To Offend

Grinding my Gears™

With thanks to Homer Simpson

Nov 26, 2025 • Freedom To Offend

Saint Mark of the Deficit: The Banker Who Mistook Himself for God

When the government’s hand replaces the invisible one, the result is not equity but economic blasphemy.

Nov 11, 2025 • Freedom To Offend

News of the World - All Liberal MPs Quit to Spend Time with Family - Even Orphans.

Not totally true, but pretty close

Nov 3, 2025 • Freedom To Offend

A Letter To The Prime Minister

Try fireside talks. Teddy Roosevelt did them, and it seemed to work.

Oct 26, 2025 • Freedom To Offend

The Unlearning Class

Universities without books, debates without reasons, and politics by tantrum

Oct 21, 2025 • Freedom To Offend

A Modest Proposal for Electoral Sanity

Democracy: now with training wheels

Oct 15, 2025 • Freedom To Offend

The Narcotic of Reassurance

Why the Toronto Star’s David Coletto prefers schoolyard taunts to evidence

Sep 27, 2025 • Freedom To Offend

Tariffs: Vandalism Passed Off as Patriotism

“Sold as sovereignty, tariffs are really just smashed shop windows with patriotic decals slapped on the glass — a swindle that leaves ordinary families…

Sep 21, 2025 • Freedom To Offend

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