Category Archives: Republic of Canada

Volunteers in the media: Libertarian islands edition

At around 5:25 p.m. EST tonight, I will be on Ezra Levant’s The Source to talk about, what else?, libertarian islands! You can watch the show live beginning at 5 p.m. here (or tune in to Sun TV if you get it). Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal, has put over a million dollars into this [...]

How to start your own country, the documentary

The Volunteer is named after a newspaper put out by the rebel William Lyon Mackenzie after an unsuccessful attempt to start an independent country. In December of 1837, Mackenzie, along with 200 of his supporters, landed on Navy Island and declared it the Republic of Canada. That flag you see in the top right of [...]