Learning Posts

Voices From the Inside: What Alberta’s Corrections Staff Want You to Know

This week’s Manitoba Stronger Together Zoom call brings you a powerful double feature designed to inform, inspire, and equip you for the civic challenges ahead. We are pleased to welcome Brad Williams from the Saskatchewan Prosperity Project, and we will also be reviewing the newly released Winnipeg Metropolitan Region (WMR) Survey together with Ken Drysdale.

kenrdrysdale

Dec 1, 20251 min read

THE CHARTER’S BLIND SPOT Part 3 of 3

Welcome to the third and final post in our three-part, 12-section series The Charter’s Blind Spot. In this installment, we bring together everything uncovered in the first two posts — the legal, structural, and moral failures that allowed governments, institutions, and courts to evade Charter accountability during one of the most consequential periods in modern Canadian history.

kenrdrysdale

Nov 25, 202513 min read

Westward Rising: Building Prairie Sovereignty & Your Voice in the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region

Jason will guide us through a timely and provocative conversation on “Alberta’s Next Chapter: Sovereignty, Self-Determination & the Road Ahead.” We’ll explore the motivations behind Alberta’s Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act, what it represents for provincial autonomy, and how it challenges long-standing assumptions about the balance of power between Ottawa and the provinces.

kenrdrysdale

Nov 24, 20251 min read

THE CHARTER’S BLIND SPOT Part 2 of 3

Section 5: Delegated Coercion — How Governmental Policy Captured the Medical Profession 5.1 The Mechanism of Delegation Throughout the COVID-19 period, Canadian governments achieved unprecedented control over the practice of medicine without the need for new constitutional powers. The mechanism was deceptively simple: policy by delegation . Federal and provincial executives issued public-health directives; regulatory colleges converted those directives into binding profession

kenrdrysdale

Nov 18, 202513 min read

Alberta’s Next Chapter? Sovereignty, Self-Determination & the Road Ahead

kenrdrysdale

Nov 17, 20251 min read

THE CHARTER’S BLIND SPOT

In early 2023, a Canadian woman named Sheila Lewis died — not because a medical treatment failed, but because she was denied access to that treatment under the authority of a government-designed, government-funded, and government-controlled health system. Days later, the Supreme Court of Canada refused to even hear her case. Around the same time, an Ontario man named Garnet Harper died after being refused a kidney transplant for similar reasons.

kenrdrysdale

Nov 13, 202513 min read

Citizens Stand Strong in St. Clements: Public Voices Prevail Against High-Density Development

On Tuesday evening, October 28, 2025, more than 150 residents crowded into the RM of St. Clements council chambers (with many more online) for the public hearing on an 80-unit, 200–250 resident low income multi-family development proposed by Schinkel Properties, immediately north of the Narol Fire Hall on Henderson Highway. The hearing began shortly after 7:30 p.m. and concluded after 11:00 p.m. — four hours of prepared, professional public participation.

kenrdrysdale

Oct 29, 20250 min read