Alberta is right: If we want to reduce smoking, nicotine pouches need to be accessible
Back in January, I started a grassroots movement calling for simple, logical, and coherent access to nicotine pouches in Canada. This movement is already having a huge impact. On March 2, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith wrote a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney supporting our campaign. Smith wrote, “Restricting access to nicotine pouches creates barriers […]
Carney’s ‘debt’ rhetoric can’t conceal his fiscal plan
According to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new Groceries and Essentials Benefit—an expanded version of the federal GST credit—will come with a price tag of $12.4 billion over the next four years. While the prime minister talks about “austerity,” in reality, he’s increased federal spending and debt. In fact, Carney plans to […]
Three By-Elections Called + Carney versus Poilievre Leadership Polling
THE LEADERSHIP QUESTION AT THE HEART OF CANADIAN POLITICS — New Abacus polling finds 48% of Canadians say Mark Carney best represents the leadership the country needs right now, compared to 29% for Pierre Poilievre. Voters wanting “careful and measured” leadership lean Liberal, while those preferring more assertive leadership lean Conservative. FORD DEFENDS HEALTH SPENDING […]
From Hype to Hard Choices: Why 2026 Will Define Canada’s Digital Policy
If 2025 was the year of technology hype, then 2026 will need to be the year of action. The federal government and key ministers have set ambitious 2026 timelines for tech policy, which will quickly turn hype into haste. The Carney government will roll out three key pieces of tech policy over the next few […]
Canada is Forever Changed. The Sober & Tragic Reality From Tumbler BC
Our Kids Are Not OK Canada is in shock after one of the deadliest high school shootings in modern Canadian history, in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, a town of fewer than 3,000 people. In a place that small, everyone knows everyone. First responders would have known the families. They may have known the children. Nine […]
Harper & MacKay’s Legacy: Unity
Stephen Harper and Peter MacKay pulled off the political equivalent of herding cats with their merger of the Canadian Alliance with the Progressive Conservatives to birth the Conservative Party of Canada. While the right bickered over whose brand of conservatism was the purest or the best, these two forged a big tent that actually let […]
If cigarettes are easy to buy, nicotine pouches should be even easier to access
During National Non-Smoking Week 2026, Canadians are encouraged to make a difficult but essential resolution: quit smoking. That’s a good thing. But the tools to get there must be accessible, practical, and consistent. My name is TJ Peric. I am a Royal Canadian Navy veteran and the founder of I Want My Pouches. Like many […]
Manufactured Legitimacy: How Bots and Algorithms Are Reshaping Modern Politics
Bots are rapidly taking over social media; they are more sophisticated than ever before, and they’ve figured out something most voters have not: social media algorithms allow any issue to be publicly perceived as legitimate with enough engagement. Bots on platforms like X have been used to artificially create grassroots political legitimacy out of thin […]
ROUND UP: BC Conservative Leadership
A list of prospective candidates, maybe candidates, and announced bids is starting to form as the race for Rustad’s throne kicks off. Whoever becomes the new leader of the B.C. Conservatives will have to glue the fragments of Rustad’s failures back together, bringing together a caucus that lost its leader and saw the resignation of […]
CRA says it’s owed more than $10 billion in COVID-19 benefit payments
Ottawa By Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press Posted Dec 31, 2025 12:35:25 PM. Last Updated Dec 31, 2025 02:42:20 PM. OTTAWA — The Canada Revenue Agency says it’s owed $10.35 billion in COVID-19 benefits. Nina Ioussoupova, a spokesperson for the agency, said that, as of Nov. 30, it had disbursed $83.5 billion in COVID benefits […]