Carney Lowers the Lantern: Ottawa Backs Away from MAID Expansion

The Technocrat Arrives at Dusk

Canadians woke this week to the soft thump of Mark Carney lowering a lantern onto the MAID file and announcing, with the calm of a man reading a weather report, that “the direction is clear.” Translation: the federal government will not be expanding MAID to include mental‑illness‑only cases — not now, and not in any politically imaginable future. 

This is not a revelation. It is a confirmation that Ottawa has finally read the room. 

Absolute Zero (Kelvin) Hits Ottawa: Leader Performs at Altitude in a System With No Heights

A Different Climate Change Hits Parliament: A Political Deep‑Freeze So Severe You’d Think Someone Would Suspend the Carbon Tax

There are cold days in Ottawa, and then there are the days when the temperature drops below the constitutional floor. Because of a hot‑mic moment in Croatia that rolled across the world this week, it seemed which wasn’t just a gaffe, but which ignited like a controlled release of political nitrogen, the kind that flash‑freezes everything it touches. 

The Long Memory of Teẑtan Biny: The Tŝilhqot’in Stand That Ended a Mine

How a Nation’s resolve, law, and land stewardship outlasted New Prosperity’s final gasp

The Mine That Would Not Die (Until it did, quietly)

There are resource projects in British Columbia that die with a bang, and then there’s New Prosperity — a mine that spent fifteen years insisting it was still alive while the courts, the Crown, and the Tŝilhqot’in Nation kept checking its pulse and finding nothing but corporate optimism and a faint shareholder heartbeat.