The Northern Record is an independent publication focused on Canadian policy, tax reform, and geopolitics. It exists because the public conversation about Canada's economic future is too often dominated by people who study these issues from a distance rather than live with their consequences directly.
The writing here comes from a practitioner. Someone who sees, in daily professional work, what bad tax policy actually does to real decisions made by real people. Someone who reads the budget documents and understands not just what the headline says but what the mechanics mean. That perspective is underrepresented in Canadian commentary, and this publication is an attempt to put it in the room.
The focus is on three intersecting areas: tax policy, where Canada has accumulated a set of structural problems that are slowly eroding its ability to attract and retain productive people and capital; Canadian economic governance, where decades of deferred decisions on resource development, infrastructure, and regulatory reform have compounded into something that now looks less like drift and more like decline; and geopolitics, where Canada's extraordinary natural endowments remain almost entirely unconnected to any coherent strategic posture.
These are not left or right issues. They are competence issues. The Northern Record does not have a partisan home. It has a point of view, which is that Canada is capable of much better than it is currently doing, and that saying so clearly and specifically is more useful than either cheerleading or despair.
The author has chosen to remain anonymous for the time being.