The Sanity Project - Canadian News Commentary

Before the petition was even filed, Danielle Smith’s government cut the signature threshold from 588,000 to roughly 177,732, and stripped powers from Elections Alberta’s Chief Electoral Officer. Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/AuQax #RegisteredPoliticalParties

One concept discussed was a specific case: a woman named Nyeta Kila claimed to be canvassing in Calgary, but was actually a noodle merchant from Indonesia, copying real Albertans' posts for viral traction. Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/AuQZX #CriticalThinking #FreeWeeklyNewsletter

New Canadian Spy-Thriller Coming Out Sunday, Nov 1. Forty below. A geologist frozen at the wheel. The coroner calls it an accident. Former sniper Daniel Lacroix calls it murder. Read the opening of Cold Claim for free: grab your preview chapter now. ashwoodpublishing.com/cold-claim-p...

Hungary ousted Orbán. Serbia ousted Vučić. Brazil kept Bolsonaro out. BC voters: “Wait, is this the line for the ride? Hold my Nanaimo bar."

She watched the Cold War begin through a keyholeA gift for you: the true story of the woman who watched the Cold War come to Ottawa. https://www.thesanity.org/p/she-watched-the-cold-war-begin-through

Ukraine Just Exposed the Weakness in Canada's F-35 GambleOne billionaire, one president, and a warning Canada can't afford to ignore. https://www.thesanity.org/p/canada-f35-gripen-ukraine-starlink

In 1578, Martin Frobisher led 15 ships to Baffin Island in search of gold. He found worthless rock, held what’s remembered as Canada’s first Thanksgiving, and the Inuit kept their own account for 300 years The real story: ashwoodpublishing.com/martin-frobi...

Dumbass of the Week: Alberta Separatists Lost the Alberta Referendum and Still Don’t Know ItThree-to-1, and they’re calling it a ‘Win’. https://www.thesanity.org/p/dumbass-of-the-week-alberta-separatists

Canada's First Orchestra at Carnegie Hall Was All WomenThe Remarkable Story of Montreal's Ethel Stark https://www.thesanity.org/p/ethel-stark-montreal-womens-symphony

Inside the $6.4 billion bet Canada made on a bridge it couldn’t legally guarantee it could open — and what “no deal” would have cost every week it sat empty. Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/AuIHp #GordieHoweBridge

Canada Put Her in Jail. Then Put Her on the $10 Bill.Viola Desmond was building futures for Black women long before she refused to give up her seat. https://www.thesanity.org/p/viola-desmond-story-before-the-10-dollar-bill

Your Rights Have an Override Button. Premiers Are Pressing It.How Section 33 works, and what Canadians can still challenge. https://www.thesanity.org/p/notwithstanding-clause-canada-charter-rights

A Factory, a Fee, and a Little Breathing RoomCanada builds. Smith bills. Families get help. https://www.thesanity.org/p/canada-vaccine-factory-smith-fee-grocery-benefit

Here's What Happens Next If Alberta Keeps Freezing Out Solar Expect more projects to quietly leave Alberta's development queue for friendlier provinces. Expect the rebate gap to stay open while Manitoba and BC keep offering theirs. Which of these do you think plays out first?

Quebec Chose Change. There’s Room for Optimism.A new government, with cooperation required. https://www.thesanity.org/p/quebec-election-pq-qs-referendum

The Right-Wing Crime Panic Has a Numbers ProblemCanada’s police-reported crime rate fell 2% in 2025. Here’s how to challenge the panic. https://www.thesanity.org/p/canada-crime-statistics-2025

Why Canada Thinks Like Europe: The Tandem-Bicycle Democracy

She Escaped America. Then She Started Printing the Truth.She found freedom in Canada, then demanded equality. https://www.thesanity.org/p/mary-ann-shadd-cary

Peter Navarro had quite a week: lecturing Canada about China, threatening us over supposed election interference, and telling Canadian lobbyists to get out. That takes talent. So polish the golden rake. The Sanity Project’s Dumbass of the Week has arrived.

Peter Navarro, Come Get Your Dumbass of the Week TrophyTwo spectacular Canada takes. One very well-earned golden rake. https://www.thesanity.org/p/peter-navarro-dumbass

You Don’t Need Permission to Feel ProudAn Inuit artist and Newfoundland islanders show us why. https://www.thesanity.org/p/canadian-pride-without-the-scoreboard

Trump offered Canada a seat in the back of his tariff truck. Europe offered us a seat at the table. CETA, critical minerals and Arctic cooperation could make Canada more prosperous, and much harder to bully. 🇨🇦 open.substack.com/pub/sanitypr...

Canada’s Future Runs Through EuropeCETA can turn shared values into Canadian power https://www.thesanity.org/p/canada-eu-trade-ceta-independence

No Mandate? What Canadians Actually Authorized Mark Carney to DoThe 2025 platform put the plan before voters. Parliament sets the limits. https://www.thesanity.org/p/mark-carney-mandate-canada

Join Bo Kauffmann as he provides fact-based context, logical reasoning, and engaging Canadian commentary to reclaim reason in politics. Read the full article: Alberta’s Solar Paradox: Best Sun, Worst Support ▸ https://lttr.ai/AuBFM #Solar #Alberta #RenewablleEnergy

Key Insight: Commercial trucks crossing the Gordie Howe pay roughly $40 less per trip than the Ambassador Bridge toll, and the new crossing is projected to save drivers hundreds of thousands of hours a year. Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/AuBDX #GordieHoweBridge #Trade

She Built Canada's Air Force. You've Spent Her.The polio survivor Canada minted onto a coin, then forgot. https://www.thesanity.org/p/elsie-macgill-canadas-forgotten-engineer

Elon Musk received a €120 million fine from the EU. Now the U.S. government wants to join his court challenge. 🇪🇺 The fine covers X’s paid blue checks, ad transparency, & researcher access. The court has yet to decide whether the U.S. can join. Read Reuters’ report: thesanity.link/Musk-EU

The Grim Reaper checked his schedule. On average, Canadians live longer than Americans. What’s behind the gap? Our latest article examines the numbers and what they reveal about the choices each country makes. Read it at www.thesanity.org/p/canada-vs-...

Canada’s field and greenhouse vegetable sectors are large and expanding, not the empty cupboard the “buy Canadian” conversation assumes. Read the full article: The Canadian Food Paradox: Why We Import Food We Can Grow ▸ https://lttr.ai/AuAgn #FoodSecurity #Greenhouse

The IMF says eliminating Canada’s internal trade barriers could add $210 billion, or nearly 7 percent, to the economy every year. Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/AuAfW #InternationalMonetaryFund

🇨🇦 Canada is broken. We’re overtaxed. We don’t make anything anymore. Heard those before? Spoiler alert: the numbers tell a different story. Get our FREE 11-claim Canadian Reality Check and see the evidence yourself. 👉 thesanity.org/subscribe

Is Canada Really Broken? Check the NumbersFour familiar claims meet some inconvenient facts https://www.thesanity.org/p/is-canada-broken-facts

Signed in Pencil: The Fragile Reality Behind Trump's "Historic" Trade Deals

Canada Learned the Lesson. Then Built the Factory.A $925-million answer to Canada’s vaccine vulnerability https://www.thesanity.org/p/sanofi-toronto-vaccine-facility

Why Canadians Live Longer, Safer LivesThe social contract separating Canada from America https://www.thesanity.org/p/canada-vs-usa-social-contract

Kerry-Lynne Findlay lasted 113 days as BC Conservative leader, roughly the same shelf life as a block of Blue Stilton cheese in your fridge. Thirteen MLAs quit her caucus in that time, citing her divisive nature. She called it "not an easy decision." Honestly, the Stilton smells better. Who's Next?

Before You Buy Another Kitchen ApplianceCanadian alternatives are hiding on shelves in plain sight https://www.thesanity.org/p/canadian-kitchen-appliances

Canada Doesn't Just Want to Mine It AnymoreThe bigger prize comes after the rocks come out https://www.thesanity.org/p/canada-critical-minerals-development

Canada's Parliament vs. America's Shutdown PoliticsWhy Ottawa's system doesn't grind to a halt when Washington's does. https://www.thesanity.org/p/canadas-parliament-vs-americas-shutdown

🇨🇦 Canada grows world-class food. Too often, we export the raw commodity and let someone else process, manufacture & brand it. We’re already an agricultural superpower. Now it’s time to finish the job & become an agrifood superpower. www.thesanity.org/p/canadian-f...

Canada and Canadians have a lot more in common with Europe than with The US ! You've probably read this in various comments or opinions online. Turns out, it's pretty accurate. 3 Parts coming up, the first one "Canada Already Governs Like Europe, Not Like Trump's America" is coming tomorrow!

Canada Grows It. Now Let’s Finish the JobThe plan to turn our crops into Canadian wealth https://www.thesanity.org/p/canadian-food-processing-agriculture

The 20 Biggest Projects Canada Wants to BuildA remarkable glimpse at the country Canada could become https://www.thesanity.org/p/canada-major-projects-2026

Are We Selling Canada? What Foreign Investment Really MeansForeign investment, foreign ownership and Canadian sovereignty explained. https://www.thesanity.org/p/foreign-investment-canada

🇨🇦 Canada is built by Canadians choosing Canada. One purchase won't change much. But multiply small choices by 15.5 million households, 52 weeks a year, and they become economic power. Same store. Different box. Choose Canadian when you can. 🍁

Canada is pitching 167 major investment projects to the world. We went through every one and built a searchable database so you can explore them by province, sector, size and stage. 🇨🇦 This is "The 167", and we’re just getting started. www.thesanity.org/p/the-167-pr...

Canada Just Put 167 Projects on the Table. Here’s What We Found.A remarkable glimpse at the country Canada could become. https://www.thesanity.org/p/the-167-projects

Just imagine it. 🇨🇦 TIME’s 2026 Person of the Year: Mark Carney. Impossible? Maybe not. There are still three consequential months ahead, but Canada’s prime minister is rapidly becoming one of the most interesting political leaders on the world stage. Could this happen?

🇨🇦🇪🇺 Congratulations, America! You wanted Canada as your 51st state. Instead, your bullying and taunts may have accomplished something remarkable: You pushed Canada closer to Europe than ever before. You may have just helped create the EU’s 28th member. Funny how that worked out. 🇨🇦