If there is one finding of near unanimous consensus among economists, it is that free trade increases productivity and boosts growth. The flip side is that tariffs, quotas, and other trade barriers generally reduce welfare. By how much? A recent study by the...
The full-court press is on for climate chaos disaster and renewable energy salvation. CNN recently hosted a seven-hour climate event for Democrat presidential aspirants. Every day brings more gloom-and-doom stories about absurd, often taxpayer-funded pseudo-scientific...
Society has become obsessed with identity. I am old enough to remember when there was only one channel on the television and just two sexes. Humans came packaged as either male or female and vive la différence! Now I am told that there are many, many “genders”:...
With opinion surveys showing the Liberal and Conservative parties running neck in neck one week before the October 21 federal election, there is plenty of talk about minority government and government coalitions. Prairie Canadians, those in Alberta and Saskatchewan in...
In this essay, I explain that young people should come to university to be educated, and not to become credentialed; the public should support universities because universities educate young people, not because they produce credentialled workers. Why should a...
During the whole of recorded history, the empire has been the most constant and common form of political organization. A basic, self-evident feature of all empire-building has been the successful occupation of the lands of the local, Indigenous inhabitants by outside...
There was “nothing new under the sun” last week when Canada’s premiers turned their annual discussion to healthcare. The premiers made the standard pledge to ensure “their residents have access to timely, quality services consistent with Canada’s universal healthcare...
Original interview from June 8, 2010 Frontier Centre: Can you tell us a little about your professional background, specifically how you became interested in the climate change issue? Harrison Schmitt: I’m a geologist and the climate has had an awful lot to do with...
The Federal Liberal government is determined to implement a new program called “Dimensions: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion” on all Canadian universities. This program includes a “Charter”—a document to be signed by university presidents or other senior official that...
It is a fact well known to deeply-learned historians and viewers of the BBC comedy series Yes Minister that the true power in government lies not in the hands of politicians – poor transient creatures of little lasting importance, here one election and gone the next –...
An Indigenous woman, accompanied by her ten year old daughter, was swarmed and beaten by a group of children at Saskatoon’s Pleasant Hill Park on May 8, 2019. Having seen a group of children throwing rocks at an elderly man, she was ignored when she asked them to...
Once upon a time, not too long ago, Quebec was the most intensely Catholic jurisdiction in the whole world. The Church played a huge role in the province’s politics and social life; attendance at Mass was extremely high; and large families (which heeded the religious...
Back in my early days of plying the dark recesses of the Internet (early 1990s for me) I came across a story of a Coke machine that you could query from anywhere on the Internet and it would give you a status on the temperature of the drinks, the last time it was...
Previously published in the Brandon Sun on November 7, 2018. The revision of history continues. The City of New Westminster has taken down the statue of British Columbia’s first chief justice, Matthew Begbie. According to the Vancouver Sun, the statue was “a symbol of...
In the non-unionized private sector in Canada, workers have legal recourse if they are dismissed without cause. A fundamental freedom for non-unionized workers is the right to have legal counsel that represents solely their interests. With their legal counsel, these...