Canada at the Crossroads: A Nation With Every Advantage, Squandering Most of Them
Canada has every advantage a nation could ask for — and has been quietly squandering most of them. The math is unforgiving, Norway is watching, and seventy per cent of our best builders already left. But pressure has a way of clarifying what comfort obscures. The rewrite starts now. Hold…
The SaaSberg: The Half-Trillion Dollar Empire That Didn’t See It Coming
For two decades, SaaS companies built empires on a beautiful, locked-in logic: make switching painful, make customization limited, make implementation expensive. The lock-in was the product. Now AI has destroyed that calculus — and over half a trillion dollars in market value has quietly disappeared to prove it.
Fool’s Gold: How Modern Nations Forgot a 6,000-Year Lesson
There is a metal that has outlasted every empire that ever touched it. The Sumerians buried it with their dead. The Spanish murdered a civilization to possess it. And in 2016, Canada — a G7 nation of serious people making serious decisions — sold its last bar and walked away…
Dear Lululemon: We Wanted Olympic Glory. You Gave Us Oven Mitts.
Canada sent its athletes to Milano Cortina in a maroon quilted vest that converts into a pillow. A pillow. We’re a nation of backcountry skiers, Rocky Mountain hikers, and November ferry lineups — and Lululemon dressed us like a Willy Wonka fever dream. We deserve better. We always did.
The Ice-Cold Truth About Greenland: Why America Needs What Denmark Can’t Protect
Denmark cannot defend Greenland’s 2.16 million square kilometers with 25 warships while China and Russia circle the Arctic. The $100,000 offer insults Greenlanders; $250,000 per person transforms lives for $14.25 billion—less than 2% of annual U.S. defense spending. America secures the free world. This is the bargain of the century.
The Spectrum of the Human Soul: A Meditation on Good and Evil in History
History reveals no purely good or evil humans—only flawed beings capable of both light and darkness. From Gandhi’s racism to Hitler’s childhood abuse, the spectrum of morality challenges our assumptions. Our choice: recognize shared humanity and love our neighbors, or risk repeating history’s darkest chapters through dehumanization and cruelty.
So You Think You’re Empathetic? Think Again.
Most people confuse sympathy with empathy—standing at the edge versus climbing into the hole. Empathy means feeling into someone’s experience, not just feeling for them from a distance. It’s costly, vulnerable, and rare. This isn’t about being nice. It’s about genuine connection that transforms both giver and receiver.
Venezuela 2030: How American Refineries Bought a Country (And What Happens Next)
Venezuela’s 2030 future hinges not on democracy or freedom, but on heavy crude economics and U.S. Gulf Coast refinery margins. With $100 billion in reconstruction ahead and a protectorate government installed, the question isn’t whether oil will flow—it’s whether ordinary Venezuelans will see any benefit beyond survival.
The Spectacular Unraveling of Pierre Poilievre’s Certain Victory
Pierre Poilievre had lightning once—that righteous anger that felt like it might actually burn something down and build something new. But by 2025, he was just a lightning bug, flickering angrily in a jar, making noise but illuminating nothing. He kept screaming after the fire went out.
One Year In: How Wealthsimple Helped Me Double My Money (And Why Your Bank Is Probably Robbing You)
After nearly four decades with TD, I finally switched to Wealthsimple—and doubled my portfolio in one year. No more $9.99 trading fees. No more account charges. Instead, I earn hundreds of dollars in interest just parking my money there. Wealthsimple is Canada’s Shopify of wealth management: innovative, bold, and built…
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Notes Beyond the Map 