Kevin Marl

Dispatch columnist. Former clerk who still writes like the jury is napping. Starts low, climbs, and names the statute before the headline. This is not complicated, he will tell you, and then he will prove it.

No Leash on Al-Bear-Ta

September 7, 2026

Alberta doesn’t ask permission. This bear doesn’t either. Untamed. Unregulated. Unbothered. You in Ottawa—yes, you—keep reaching for a collar. Emissions caps. Pipeline strangulation. Lectures from the Laurentian paper-pushers. This is not complicated. Section 92 of the Constitution Act, 1867, hands non-renewable natural resources to the provinces. Premier Danielle Smith cites it […]

No Leash on Al-Bear-Ta