Al Toews

[Al Toews @AlbertToews]

@jdouglaslittle @garymasonglobe @CoryJudson I'm noticing how the "maga knuckle draggers" are defeating the left in every meaningful aspect of society.

[Al Toews @AlbertToews]

Most important message on this Canada’s birthdate

[Eva Chipiuk, BSc, LLB, LLM @echipiuk]

In writing my book, Reconnect to Canada, the most difficult part was not recounting our history or explaining our political and legal systems. It was answering a simple question:

What does it mean to be Canadian?

Over the last few years, I have asked that question repeatedly.

It was clear that something fundamental had shifted, but I could never quite articulate what it was.

The responses to that question were revealing, and most telling was that there was no common answer at all.

Some said hockey. Some said healthcare. Others said diversity or simply that Canadians are “nice.”

The fact that we cannot define our values should concern every one of us.

Then I came across this article, and it put things into perspective:

“Socialism, in its depraved but effective way, appeals to people’s worst instincts and impulses. It presents the world as a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers. It pits groups of people against each other based on arbitrary measures. For the narrow-minded, it makes sense.

It embodies most of the seven deadly sins.

Pride: Socialists have zero humility because they reject the fallibility of humanity. They can micromanage an entire society. They can create a centralized, one-size-fits-all, command-and-control utopia. They know all and know best.

Envy: Taking one’s property because they have too much to give to others who have less is not noble; it is theft. Stealing with state-sanctioned approval is unjust. The sheer resentment that some have more, better, or bigger material possessions is the driving force of socialist ideology.

Wrath: Socialist doctrine fuels anger, rage, violence, and a desire for vengeance against the so-called oppressors. Instead of mimicking the successful, the people turn their ire toward them.

Sloth: Because socialism is about passing the buck and the blame, it excuses idleness and promotes laziness. It allows one to shirk personal duties and retards personal growth.”

The uncomfortable truth is that Canada increasingly reflects these traits, yet we refuse to acknowledge it.

We insist we are compassionate while shaming and disparaging those who hold different opinions.

We claim to value equality while encouraging envy.

We preach inclusion while dividing Canadians into competing groups.

We speak of unity while constantly finding new reasons to divide ourselves.

We demand accountability from everyone except the government.

We expect government to solve problems that citizens, families, communities, and free people once solved themselves.

Worst of all, we have become experts at pretending none of this is happening.

We congratulate ourselves on being tolerant, generous, and virtuous while our institutions fail, productivity declines, public debt explodes, trust evaporates, and Canadians become more divided than they have been in decades.

That is not something to celebrate.

It is something to confront.

If Canadians can no longer articulate what it means to be Canadian, perhaps it is because we have abandoned the principles that once defined us: freedom, personal responsibility, hard work, accountability, respect for the rule of law, and service to one another rather than dependence on the state.

You do not need to take my word for it.

Just open your eyes. Look around!

A country does not lose its identity overnight. It loses it one abandoned principle at a time.

A nation without shared values eventually becomes little more than a collection of people living within arbitrary borders.

So if we are going to celebrate Canada today, let us celebrate the principles that made this country worth celebrating in the first place and commit ourselves to restoring them where they have been lost.

[Al Toews @AlbertToews]

Jeromy, please inform us about the specific influence of foreigners and the degree to which this is happening. Stop the innuendo and give us real specifics.

If you can’t do that, you’re pushing propaganda just like so many politicians before you. So much for your “pathfinder” awakening….

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Canada: Crying Over Spilt Milk in a Self‑Inflicted Stagnation

Canada’s elite have spent a quarter‑century turning a rich, opportunity‑dense economy into a slow‑growth, over‑levered cul‑de‑sac, and they still insist nothing is structurally wrong. There is no sense crying over spilt milk about past mistakes when the architects of this stagnation are still in charge and still in denial.

Canada did not just drift into secular stagnation; it embraced a kind of virtue socialism and an industrial policy anchored on climate change targets rather than productive capacity, competitiveness, or growth. An economy built on world‑class natural resources, strategic geography, and human capital has been deliberately downgraded into a housing‑addicted, low‑productivity balance sheet recession risk, and the people who did it still show up on panels calling this “resilience.”

For years, Canada’s comparative advantages in energy, resources, and industrial capacity were something to apologize for, regulate to death, or tax into oblivion, while policy and capital chased the illusion that you could mortgage and virtue‑signal your way to prosperity. The result is a country flirting with a liquidity trap, where even lower rates may barely move a real economy suffocated by over‑priced assets, under‑built productive capital, and households too damaged to borrow again.

The real scandal is not that Canada faces secular stagnation; it is that the elite engineered it, denied it, wrapped it in climate rhetoric, and now blame external shocks while the data scream that this is a made‑in‑Canada crisis.

To be clear, Canada’s problems are not the result of President Trump!

If Canada’s elite will not finally admit that decades of attacking its own strengths, worshipping its own bubbles, and treating industrial policy as a morality play have left the country one downturn away from a full balance sheet recession, then they are not guardians of the national interest, they are custodians of decline, and at this point, there really is no sense crying over spilt milk, only over the refusal to fix the mess they made.

[Al Toews @AlbertToews]

@CoryBMorgan Ted puts up his hand and helps clarify why Alberta wants to leave Canada…who wants to be associated with people who talk that way.

[Al Toews @AlbertToews]

A win for “let citizens occasionally ask the voters how they think/feel about about important issues”.

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

Congratulations to the legal team on this win.

The Court of Appeal is allowing Elections Alberta to verify the Sylvestre petition signatures, but the Court did not allow that separate citizen-initiative question to proceed further before the appeal.

So, today’s Court of Appeal decision does not change the Oct. 19 referendum question.

The Oct. 19 referendum remains in place and Albertans will vote.

[Al Toews @AlbertToews]

Evidence supports this analysis

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Le progressisme est le pire cancer des 50 dernières années.

Pas parce qu'il est "de gauche".

Parce qu'il a volé un mot — progrès — pour vendre exactement son contraire.

C'est la thèse de Thiel. Une fois que tu la vois, tu ne peux plus la dé-voir.

Dans les années 60, l'Occident construisait. On allait sur la Lune. On bâtissait des centrales nucléaires, des avions supersoniques, on parlait sérieusement de coloniser Mars et de vaincre le cancer en dix ans. Le progrès, c'était des atomes : de l'énergie moins chère, des transports plus rapides, des vies plus longues.

Puis quelque chose s'est cassé autour de 1971.

L'innovation dans le monde physique s'est arrêtée net. Le Concorde a été retiré — on vole moins vite aujourd'hui qu'il y a 50 ans. Le nucléaire a été tué par la peur. Le salaire réel médian a stagné pendant un demi-siècle. "On nous avait promis des voitures volantes, on a eu 140 caractères."

Mais l'humain a besoin de croire qu'il avance. Alors le progressisme a fait une chose géniale et terrifiante : il a déplacé le mot "progrès" du monde des atomes vers le monde des symboles.

Puisqu'on ne savait plus agrandir le gâteau, on a décrété que le seul combat qui compte était de le redécouper. Plus de croissance à promettre ? On promet de la redistribution, de la repentance, des comités, des labels, des normes. La machine à créer a été remplacée par la machine à gérer le déclin — et on a appelé ça "le bon côté de l'Histoire".

C'est là que Girard rejoint Thiel. Le progressisme n'est pas une politique, c'est une religion sécularisée. Il a gardé tous les rouages du christianisme — le péché, la culpabilité, la confession, le bouc émissaire à sacrifier — mais il a jeté la rédemption et la transcendance. Résultat : une religion qui ne sait que désigner des coupables. Jamais pardonner. Jamais construire.

Et les coupables désignés, ce sont toujours les mêmes : ceux qui bâtissent. L'entrepreneur, l'ingénieur, le fondateur, celui qui prend des risques et crée quelque chose à partir de rien. Pendant ce temps on érige en héros le commentateur, le régulateur, le consultant — celui qui ne produit rien mais qui distribue les bons points moraux.

Voilà pourquoi c'est un cancer, au sens propre. Une cellule cancéreuse n'est pas un envahisseur extérieur. C'est une cellule de ton propre corps qui oublie sa fonction, refuse de mourir, et se met à grossir sans rien produire d'utile — jusqu'à étouffer les organes qui font vivre l'ensemble. Le progressisme, c'est exactement ça : une partie de la société qui a cessé de créer de la valeur, qui se nourrit de celle des autres, et qui appelle ça de la vertu.

La bonne nouvelle, c'est qu'un cancer, ça se soigne. Le remède n'est pas la nostalgie. C'est de rendre au mot "progrès" son sens originel : construire des choses réelles. De l'énergie abondante. Des frontières nouvelles. Des fondateurs qu'on célèbre au lieu de les juger.

Le futur n'appartient pas à ceux qui redécoupent le gâteau. Il appartient à ceux qui en font un plus grand.

[Al Toews @AlbertToews]

@1goodtern Let’s call them June, July and August

[Al Toews @AlbertToews]

@compliantvc Just another post clearly illustrating that the EU is on a rapid decline from when they led creative discovery and defined modern life. Now, they're ...irrelevant

[Al Toews @AlbertToews]

@sarobertson_ Trump didn't hear you because he's too busy eating your lunch...

[Al Toews @AlbertToews]

@DavidMcLA You mean the man Trump who’s reorganizing the world while Canada (and people like you) put their heads in the sand?)

[Al Toews @AlbertToews]

@RiseOfAlberta @RobertDoel76 Leave the area where lucrative hydrocarbons exist below earth’s surface??

[Al Toews @AlbertToews]

This approach to children and education needs to be at the heart of the new Alberta

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

One of the most thought provoking speeches I've seen in a while.

@Miss_Snuffy on how raising a generation to see the world through oppressors and the oppressed is changing the West.

If you don't have time, bookmark it. It's worth every second.

WATCH:

[Al Toews @AlbertToews]

@Heccles94 No… you’re displaying peak ignorance and peak gullible-ness at the same time. You are allowing yourself to be used…

[Al Toews @AlbertToews]

Step by step countries are recognizing the threat and reclaiming & protecting their cultural

[Brigitte Gabriel @ACTBrigitte]

💥Greece is 95% Orthodox Christian and they are making sure it stays that way. The government is shutting down 60 illegal mosques in Athens and deporting the imams running them.

Greece joins a growing list of countries cracking down on the unchecked spread of Islam within their borders.

[Al Toews @AlbertToews]

Significant development

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HUGE NEWS: The US Postmaster General has just told Congress that the Post Office WILL NOT deliver mail-in ballots in the 2026 midterms to states who refuse to comply with President Trump's election integrity executive order

This order makes sure mail-in recipients are CITIZENS and are who they say they are — on top of making mail-in voting more secure

LFG!! Don't let the Dems defeat this in court! 🔥

[Al Toews @AlbertToews]

The old bait and switch…

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Democrats think they’re using Muslims to usher in socialism.
The truth is Muslims are using Democrats to usher in Islam.

[Al Toews @AlbertToews]

@NormOrnstein interesting how the benefactors of USAiD frauds self identify

[Al Toews @AlbertToews]

Fatal conceit

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

The most dangerous thing in politics is not malice. It's arrogance: the belief that a small group of experts can redesign society better than the countless individuals who actually live in it.

Friedrich Hayek had a name for this mistake: The Fatal Conceit.

In his final book, Friedrich Hayek delivered his most pointed critique of socialism and central planning. The book’s title refers to the fatal intellectual error at the heart of socialist thought: the arrogant belief that human reason is capable of deliberately designing and controlling the complex order of society. Hayek called this “constructivist rationalism” - the idea that we can scrap inherited institutions and traditions and rebuild society according to a rational blueprint.

Hayek argued that this conceit is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how civilisation actually works. The extended order of the market - our system of prices, division of labour, property rights and moral traditions - was not invented or designed by anyone. It emerged through a long process of cultural evolution. No single mind, and certainly no central planning board, possesses the knowledge required to coordinate millions of individuals with constantly changing needs, preferences, and local circumstances.

The price system, Hayek explained, is a remarkable mechanism that communicates dispersed knowledge far more effectively than any planner ever could. When socialists attempt to replace this spontaneous order with conscious direction, they do not merely cause inefficiency. They destroy the very foundations that make advanced civilisation possible.

The Fatal Conceit goes beyond economics to defend the moral and cultural foundations of a free society. Hayek showed that the socialist project is not just impractical - it is based on a dangerous overestimation of human reason and ability, and an arrogant dismissal of evolved wisdom.

The fatal conceit is still very much alive today in every attempt to centrally engineer society, the economy, or human behaviour. Hayek’s warning endures: civilisation is fragile, and those who believe they are wise enough to redesign it are usually the ones who end up destroying it.

[Al Toews @AlbertToews]

Progress in Europe…but perhaps too late

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Keir Starmer has officially RESIGNED as British Prime Minister. Here’s a quick breakdown of what he accomplished over the past two years:

- Allowed an Islamic third-world invasion of the UK and the destruction of Western civilization
- Increased government censorship
- Made it illegal to criticize the government online
- Restricted religious freedoms for Christians
- Ostracized white people as racists and bigots
- Contributed to a large scale government cover up of Pakistani rape gangs

And the list goes on and on and on…

He’s leaving his party just as he found it: politically, financially, and morally bankrupt.

Goodbye, Keir. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.