On Tuesday, Albertans learned (thanks to CP’s Jack Farrell) of an interesting data point in labour’s quiet voter-recall war against the United Conservative government. In October, the Alberta assembly passed a statute ordering striking schoolteachers back to work — something that was routine throughout Canada until 2015, when the Supreme Court discovered an unwritten and previously undetected right to strike in the Charter. The back-to-work bill invoked the Charter’s notwithstanding clause, overriding the novel Charter right, in order to get schools open before autumn turned into winter. Read More

The inferior national newspaper has seen fit to bid farewell to the old year by printing another op-ed bemoaning the uninhabitable state of the prime minister’s traditional primary residence at 24 Sussex Dr. I wonder if this is going to become an actual political cause in 2026 — whether our sudden Trump-era panic about state capacity and national self-reliance is going to be pressed into the service of rebuilding or rehabilitating 24 Sussex. Read More