Canada is in the top 20 quintile, and its IPRI (International Property Rights Index) score is 8,264, a decrease from 2018 by 0.029. Canada's Global ranking is 11. The International Property Rights Index (IPRI), developed by the Alliance for Property Rights, has shown...
Green New Dealers have convinced themselves that our planet faces an imminent, existential, manmade climate cataclysm – that can be prevented solely and simply by government edicts replacing fossil fuels with biofuel, wind, solar and battery energy. They achieve this...
Life for farmers in agricultural parts of British Columbia can be hard. Winters are long, the weather is unpredictable, and a couple bad years can put even prepared families at risk of losing their livelihoods. Getting through these challenging periods is easier when...
Wednesday, November 6, 2019 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Mount Royal University Faculty Centre, Third Floor by West Gate Entrance, Room W315 Separate but Unequal provides an in-depth critique of the ideology of "parallelism" - the prevailing view that Indigenous cultures...
Sitting on top of one of the world’s largest and richest natural resource warehouses is turning into quite a disconcerting distraction. While much of Canada’s population – the heavily urban part for whom “rural” means Whistler, Muskoka, or Mont Tremblant – likes to...
The economic upheaval now roiling over the world’s financial markets, rapidly lowering living standards, and even threatening to freeze Europeans this winter, is all directly related to the radical decision most western leaders took in March of 2020., when a new...
Remember Lynden Dorval? He was the Edmonton high school teacher that was fired because he refused to follow his schools "No Zero Policy." His firing set off a storm of controversy and drew much attention to No-Zero policies in general. A No-zero policy means teachers...
The announced federal government subsidy for “trusted” media outlets risks undermining provincial jurisdictions. The federal lathering of a $595-million subsidy on “trusted” media over five years may encourage a regressive democratic step of making more outfits more...
I have been asked to describe Canada’s Indigenous child welfare problem. I am told that there are similarities between it and New Zealand’s Maori child welfare issues. I confess that I am largely ignorant of the New Zealand situation, but I have some experience with...
Back in 2017 CBC ran a story about a teacher who was so passionate about climate change that he attended an intensive training session lead by former US vice president Al Gore, after being designated a climate reality leader at this session, the teacher had his grade...
The television series “The Enemy Within” begins by informing the viewer that there are 100,000 foreign spies in the United States working to undermine and destabilize America. China has sent hundreds of thousands of students to America to gain maximum access to the...
Important new project provides videos and short non-technical issue briefs for students It is time to challenge the steady diet of bias, false information and alarmism on climate change that students are fed both in and outside of their classrooms. An important new...
In a democracy, decisions are based on how the majority of people vote on a given issue. However, having a majority of people vote in a certain way does not equate with a correct decision being made, especially if the decision is made with little to no discussion....
How good is your memory? Let's test it out. Memorize these seven letters H, K, C, T, N, I, E, was that hard? Try these seven letters instead K, I, T, C, H, E, N which series of letters were easier to remember? (Episode 5 of 10)
The Southern Chiefs’ Organization (SCO) is organizing protests to slow down traffic and inconvenience thousands of Manitoban heading to cottage country. Friday saw the first disruption on number one highway to Lake of the Woods. Chief Jerry Daniels explained: “We’re...