Opinion

Opinion

Armed self-defence and government regulation collide in Canada’s gun debate.
Opinion

MAUSER: A good guy with a gun

Western Standard Guest Columnist
3 min read
Budget 2026 has unveiled the Liberal government’s new immigration numbers, and at some point, we’re going to have to stop pretending this is just business as usual.
Opinion

WIECHNIK: The immigration gamble Canadians will face for generations

David Wiechnik
5 min read
Illustration of a discarded cross outside a military chapel, symbolizing the debate over religious expression in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Opinion

SLOBODIAN: Jesus kicked out of Canadian military chapel

Linda Slobodian
4 min read
Artist’s rendering of the new 10-lane Massey Bridge over the Fraser River between Delta and Richmond, which was under construction when the NDP government cancelled it in favour of a new tunnel in 2017. The bridge would have been finished at least a year ago.
Opinion

FLETCHER: Bridges at heart of BC’s fight against US big labour

Western Standard Guest Columnist
3 min read
Pierre Poilievre, Mark Carney, and Danielle Smith amid Canada’s immigration debate.
Opinion

MACLEOD: Canadians asked for less immigration — Carney’s giving mass immigration

Colin MacLeod
4 min read
Naheed Nenshi
Opinion

MORGAN: Calgarians are paying a high price for Nenshi's vanity

Cory Morgan
4 min read
Trump and his Republican allies face a rising blue tide.
Opinion

CRESCIA: The accidental socialist — Trump paved the way for the American Left

Western Standard Guest Columnist
4 min read
Ottawa’s war of words. Vincent Neil Ho and Nancy Hamzawi face off over the language of motherhood.
Opinion

OLDCORN: ‘A pregnant person is a person who is pregnant’ — Ottawa's fear of the word 'mother' has become a Monty Python sketch

Christopher Oldcorn
3 min read
Unite or lose
Hannaford

HANNAFORD: Time's up for disunity

Nigel Hannaford
3 min read
Mark Carney looks to Europe as Canada’s unfinished business piles up at home.
Opinion

GWYN MORGAN: Continental grift — forget the EU, Canada has far more work to do at home

Western Standard Guest Columnist
4 min read
Trump lost the midterms
Watch

WATCH LIVE: Trump lost the midterms. How quickly will Canada's economy recover?

Western Standard News Services
1 min read
Donald Trump, Mark Carney and Doug Ford: a shifting political landscape on both sides of the border.
Opinion

WHISSELL: Donald Trump did a lot of good, but I’m glad he’s on his way out

Mavros Whissell
4 min read
Jody Wilson-Raybould and the debate over reconciliation, justice, and the public purse.
Opinion

GIESBRECHT: Ottawa abandoned the rule of law for ‘reconciliation’

Brian Giesbrecht
7 min read
Why punish legal gun owners?
Opinion

BERNARDO: Evidence says Canada’s licensing system works — so why keep punishing legal gun owners?

Western Standard Guest Columnist
3 min read
Trump's next two years
The Pipeline

WATCH: What do the US midterms mean for Trump and Canada?

Western Standard News Services
1 min read
Mark Carney and Donald Trump in an illustration about U.S. tariffs on Canada’s auto industry.
Opinion

MACLEOD: Carney waited, Trump lost — Canadians are still paying

Colin MacLeod
5 min read
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