Category: Viewpoint

Viewpoint

by Conrad Eder | Mar 17, 2026

No matter the party, governments run deficits because spending wins votes

Years of overspending have left Saskatchewan taxpayers paying hundreds of millions every year just to service the debt

The moment doctors can bill both the public and private systems, the public one starts to lose

Years of deficit spending are making it harder for Gen Z to build the kind of financial security earlier generations took for granted

Any softening toward China weakens the shield that protects our security and our economy

A decade of stalled pipelines and limited export capacity leaves Canada unable to respond

Iran spent decades provoking the world. Eventually, someone was going to punch back

Britain has survived royal scandals before, but the Crown’s days in Canada are fading

A Manitoba court case raises a simple question: should legal aid bankroll organizations that can afford their own lawyers?

Power demand rises, water use climbs and the jobs often disappear once the construction phase ends

Oil, diesel and fertilizer prices are already climbing. Food prices tend to follow

Energy abundance is economic and geopolitical leverage

Without small modular reactors powering remote projects, Canada’s vast resources will stay in the ground