Native American entrepreneurship has been growing in leaps and bounds over the last few decades. As in Canada among First Nations, tribal government has often taken the lead in building and cultivating tribe-owned businesses. At first, this tended to be in gaming,...
Year: 2018
The Islamic Enlightenment – Islamophobia?
Shariah Law is based on the Qur’an and the Hadith, the collections of sayings attributed to Mohammed. Islamic fundamentalists believe that Shariah courts should decide virtually all disputes, based on that law. Such courts are a fixture in Islamic countries, such as...
Profile Series: Terrie Brigham
For Native American entrepreneur Terrie Brigham, 46, commercial fishing is not just a business venture, but has defined her family and tribe for generations. When she and her family set up Brigham Fish Market in Cascade Locks, Oregon, it was just a continuation and...
Universities Must Prepare for Legalisation of Pot
Marijuana will become legal in Canada on 17 October. Some students can hardly wait, but the question is whether their universities are ready. In curricular terms, the institutional response has been impressive. Many Canadian universities have already begun new courses...
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Carbon Border Taxes: A Counterproductive Idea Which Will Lead to Penalized Customers
Carbon taxes at the borders are becoming a popular idea among some countries and world regions. For example, the European Commission, the EU executive institution, is proposing environmental tariffs “on imports from countries with less stringent climate-protection...
Reverse Orwell to Give Our Leaders New Titles
In his novel 1984, George Orwell envisioned a future that is arguably unfolding before our eyes where government authority was supreme and truth and freedom were not to be found. Perhaps he should have named his novel 2021 because our times seem more like his novel...
Wendell Cox joins Global News to discuss the advantages, or disadvantages to implementing a High Speed Train from Vancouver to Portland. (~10 minutes)
Balancing the Indigenous Claims of Institutional Discrimination
Manitobans keep hearing about the negative ways that institutions treat Indigenous people. Think of what has been said during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women, the Sixties Scoop, the Tina Fontaine and the Colton Bushie...
Profile Series: Ian Gladue
Ian Gladue, 39, is the ideal Indigenous entrepreneur. He saw a need within the Indigenous community and he acted to fill it. Gladue, a native of Bigstone Cree Nation in northern Alberta on Treaty 8 territory, is the co-owner of Native Delights – a restaurant in...
Against Diversity
In the last few days, two academic conferences were criticized for not being sufficiently “diverse.” A conference to empower women and train them for leadership was cancelled by St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, because, according to university...
It’s said that in life you get what you pay for. Including unemployment...
The Environment: A True Story Part 12 – The Key Is In The Past
Part 12 of John Robson's documentary comparing climate change alarmism with widely accepted facts about the past state and present condition of the Earth.
Complexity, Nuance, Truth: The 3:10 to Yuma and Indian Residential Schools
On a Saturday afternoon that presented me with a few idle hours, I sat down on the living room sofa to watch director James Mangold’s 2007 film, 3:10 to Yuma, starring Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, and — oh my goodness! — Peter Fonda in a supporting role. I’d popped...
To Frack or Not to Frack? That Is the Question For Nova Scotia
Hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known as ‘Fracking,’ is a common technique to extract oil and gas from deep underground rock formations. During hydraulic fracturing, a special fluid is injected into a rock formation with enough pressures to fracture the oil- and...
Anti-Diversity and Comic Books
Consumers of popular culture, aware of the recent box-office success of the movies Black Panther and Wonder Woman, may have been puzzled by recent claims that the world of fantasy entertainment – comics, films, books – was deemed to be suffering a crisis in diversity....