The great plague of inflation we currently face is not born from the abundance of many, but from the unchecked greed of the few—the wealthiest among us.
To conceal their plunder of our country’s rich resources and treasury, they deploy political stewards to feign outrage and gaslight already primed and fervent crowds. Too often, this outrage is directed at marginalized communities—our queer and trans siblings, newcomers, and our BIPOC brothers and sisters.
Through these intermediaries, the aristocracy unjustly lays blame on those denied socio-economic mobility, those burdened by intergenerational trauma. Systematically, so many are shut out from the very riches native to this land—riches that we had no hand in creating and have not been invited to remedy.
This land. Native Land. Land unjustly taken from our First Nations brothers and sisters. May they find the compassion and grace to forgive me, and those who came before me, for the harm done to their great waters and plains—a benevolence we failed to extend to them.
The wealthiest cast embers of acrimony upon the ground; through this panic and rage, they seek to divide us.
Greed and consumption are true evils—not an 11-year-old girl in Stratford, Ontario, afraid to share her deeply felt gender identity; not a Syrian family of five seeking safety. When so many of our grandparents fled war and disaster in generations past, why close the door now?
Where they sow division, distraction, and violence, we must choose unity, solidarity, and harmony. We cannot allow this proxy war of disunion to mask a greater corruption: the erosion of what truly binds us as a nation—hope, togetherness, justice, and opportunity.
Let us stand together, stronger than their attempts to divide us.
I’ll close with the words of Jack Layton: “My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful, and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.”
On Endurance as a Requirement for Care
An ambulance arrived at my home in under ten minutes. The three paramedics who attended to me were professional, attentive, and deeply human. If there is any group of public servants still holding the moral centre of our healthcare system, it is them. They treated me with urgency, dignity, and care—and then they brought me…
On Efficiency as a Substitute for Democracy
I examine municipal amalgamation through irony and analogy, exposing how efficiency is often mistaken for good governance. By treating communities as interchangeable, amalgamation dilutes democracy, concentrates power, erodes local knowledge, and replaces participation with administrative convenience—while preserving the appearance, but not the substance, of democratic rule.
On The Myth of Canadian Exceptionalism
This is not an argument that Canada is Mississippi in 1964—but no society arrives at that point by accident. The same dynamics are visible here at home. They surface in the normalization of hateful rhetoric online and in public spaces across Canada, including here in Niagara. Those advancing this rhetoric often insist they are merely…
Sabrina Constance 