The media often portray alternative lenders as slippery, unethical loan sharks who exploit the poor. When targeting the sector and not just a few bad apples, such stories are easy, cheap hit jobs. A New Brunswick Liberal senator, for example, …
Strike the Root: Unwarranted Travel Restrictions Hypocritical Politicos Don’t Believe Their Own Fear-Mongering
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed more than ever that those who trade freedom for security cannot stand people preferring the former. By ignoring rules they force onto others, such as travel restrictions, politicians reveal the primary goal was power all …
How ESG Inflates Egos, Deflates Growth
The stakeholder-shareholder debate in finance has narrowed down to a false dichotomy between good capitalism and bad capitalism. The former means funding green energy to fight global warming, while the latter means investing in fossil fuels, tobacco, or other “sin …
One-Size-Fits-All Education Denies Talent Diversity: Educational Romanticism Harms Children, Devalues Trades
Canadians have an unhealthy obsession with statistical parity. In 2015, Canada’s Prime Minister introduced his 50-50 cabinet, prioritizing gender over merit in the name of equality. Now, the current Ontario minister of education has announced the end of academic streaming …
Wealth Tax Is State-Sanctioned Theft: Politicos Drunk on Power Pursue Disappearing Revenues
Eat-the-rich rhetoric is good politics but bad policy. The wealthy minority contribute precious investment and much-needed employment, but no good deed goes unpunished. The specter of a wealth tax, which hangs over Canada, epitomizes infantile, self-defeating governance. This autumn, the …
How Smart Meters can Serve Energy Consumers
There have been few practical measures presented to achieve the lofty goals laid out in the prime minister’s green agenda or the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Gender equality, increased daycare spending, and reduced fossil-fuel usage might make for …
Death of Free Expression on Campus Drives Intellectual Exodus
University administrators and student unions are tearing down something more important than statues. These self-appointed censors are dismantling the dialectic method bequeathed to us from Socrates and generations of scholars, triggering a brain drain away from academia. Neither arcane nor …
The Pandemic is a Perfect Excuse to Impose Green Agenda
Rather than focusing on the COVID-19 spread or opening the economy, the Canadian Prime Minister is using his pandemic recovery plan as a smokescreen for his environmentalist agenda. Contrary to feel-good platitudes, a quick transformation to a carbon-neutral economy guarantees …
Alberta’s Rising Crime Begs More Policing, Not Less
The year is not yet over, and Calgary has already recorded 26 homicides, six more than in 2019. Edmonton has witnessed a 90 percent spike in assaults with weapons or causing bodily harm. Unbelievably, rather than tackling this escalating violence …
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