Alberta Premier Jason Kenney was famous for having two different personas — one for campaigning, consisting of a blue Dodge pick-up and a quite vivacious personality; the other was the public office character, which always seemed to let down himself and his promises, and never seemed to have enough oomph…

Article dedicated to two of my closest friends, J.M. and B.J.; love you both! The Supreme Court of the United States, or SCOTUS (as you might hear it shortened down), has a vast amount of leverage on the rights of everyday Americans and how their lives and the institutions above…

I started this article intending to cover the politics of not just one attack, but many. Isla Vista’s killings, the Tucson assassination attempt, and the El Paso Walmart shooting, to name a few. …

Staunch capitalism and ruthless conservatism plagued the lives of the working-class before the Second World War. If you were working, you were likely working somewhere owned by one of the richest people in the country. And if you were in a place owned by one of the richest people in…

Medium, Medium Staff This isn’t a piece that you would normally find any of us creators — from science-fiction fanatics to political commentators — writing on this platform, but it comes at a certain time where the publication of something like this is necessary. In August of 2021, it was…

In the news recently, there have been two major stories: the ‘Freedom Convoy’ —a large (or so they lead you to think, but that’s been fact-checked) group of pan-America truckers in staunch opposition to vaccine mandates between Canada and the States — and an internal identity and leadership crisis in…

On Wikipedia and other encyclopedic sites, independent politicians seem to be the most insignificant people you’ll come across. They are colored in their electoral history tables as gray, a color that passes across the message, “They’re not a member of a party, they’re never going to win another election;” red…

Before I went out on my walk on December the 19th, I searched up on Google, “Canadian political history podcasts,” in an attempt to find a podcast that might uncover some history into past administrations like P.E. Trudeau’s, Mulroney’s, or Harper’s (the one I’m most interested in). I did not…

Little did those who signed the U.S. Constitution in Independence Hall, Penn., in 1787 know that the way the document was written, and some of the provisions it included and came to include would cause so much controversy and civil-war-style tension today, 234 years on. Today’s Republicans have such a…