Alberta chooses unity over a dangerous bluff from separatists
Albertans rejected secession by a wide margin, giving Mark Carney a crucial victory and proving that institutional solidarity beats a manufactured populist bluff.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
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Carney calls out the costly bluff behind Alberta's ballot
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Alberta separatists lose the vote but keep the machinery
Alberta's referendum fails to break Canada, but the machinery of Western alienation and the long game of separatism survive to fight another day.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Wainwright ignored the grass fire until four soldiers died
Range control at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright permitted live-fire exercises despite a burning grass fire, killing four soldiers in an institutional failure no sudden wind can excuse.
By Daniel Okafor ·
A deadly fire at CFB Wainwright is a failure of command
When a military base fire overwhelms rural hospitals and disrupts a provincial vote, the resulting casualties reflect a failure of containment rather than an act of weather.
By Daniel Okafor ·
Carney turns Trump threat into leverage as Alberta votes
Prime Minister Mark Carney counters Washington pressure and Alberta separatism with economic concessions, proving that division costs more than unity as voters go to the polls.
By Tom Beckwith ·
Donald Trump trades strategic leverage for Russian diesel
Donald Trump agreed to import Russian diesel to lower prices before midterm elections, trading strategic leverage for a temporary dip at the pump while alienating western allies.
By Tom Beckwith ·
Plamondon wins in Quebec but holds a weak hand against Carney
As the Parti Québécois returns to power, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon faces a fragile minority mandate and a costly trade war that leaves Ottawa holding the real leverage.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
Trump uses Smoot-Hawley to ban Canadian goods in a trade error
Washington enforces a billion-dollar ban on Canadian alcohol, dairy, and motorcycles under Depression-era authority, substituting diplomatic leverage with protectionist theater while Ottawa looks elsewhere.
By Tom Beckwith ·
Mark Carney hedges against Trump by pivoting Canada to the EU
By Klaus Berger ·
Mark Carney is right to seek a life raft in the European Union
When Donald Trump posts a map on Truth Social showing Canada and Greenland overlaid with the American flag and declares his ambition to make Canada the 51st state, he isn't just trolling.
By Maya Ellison ·
Mark Carney is smartly hedging Canada's risk against Donald Trump
For an actuary’s daughter, the math of Canada’s current predicament is simple, though the politics are loud.
By Dana Whitfield ·
Carney's EU associate bid is a vanity project, not a strategy
Prime Minister Mark Carney stood before the European Parliament in Strasbourg on September 17 and attempted to perform a feat of geopolitical alchemy.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Carney is right to build a lifeboat with the EU
In the corridors of Strasbourg, where the air always smells faintly of old paper and the desperate hope of a unified continent, the European Union has a habit of treating legal…
By Elena Rossi ·
Canada alliance plan 'not against anyone', EU says after Trump threat
You can’t pay a heating bill with a press release, and you certainly can’t keep a fabricating shop humming on the fumes of a parliamentary speech in Strasbourg.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
Trump Threatens EU With Tariffs Over Canada ‘Associate Member’ Offer
There is a particular kind of blindness that afflicts those who mistake a hostage situation for a courtship.
By Tom Beckwith ·