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 head-on, officials...
Year: 2020
There Really are Limits to Growth: Canadians’ Orthodox Assumptions are Flat-Out Wrong
Two centuries ago, clergyman Thomas Malthus expounded the proposition that population always outruns food supply. He said population increases geometrically while food supply increases, at best, only arithmetically. Half a century ago the Green Revolution, enabling...
All the Ways We Could Pay; For COVID, the Recession, and Everything Else
Lately, ordinary citizens, voters and taxpayers are beginning to worry about something that usually only ‘dismal scientists’, i.e., economists, care about: our alarming federal and provincial deficits and exploding national debt. While putting an economy into...
Despite Surges, Rural Death Rates Remain far Lower
There have been reports of rising COVID-19 infection rates in rural areas and even “surges,” such as here and here. Many of these reports fail to note the most important statistic of all with respect to rural areas --- that, even with the recent increases and surges,...
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Leon Fontaine – A Passionate Canadian Thought Leader – RIP
This past weekend, we learned of the tragic and unexpected passing of Pastor Leon Fontaine at 59 years of age. Leon was a gifted leader playing many roles both nationally and internationally. He was, with his wife Sally, the senior Pastors at Springs Church with...
Public Inquiries and Public Trust
Testimony before the Public Order Emergency Commission reveals the case for government invoking the Emergencies Act is either weak or very weak. The Prime Minister was, in fact, opposed to members of his cabinet or senior public health officials meeting with protest...
A Plan to Recoup International-Student Revenue: COVID-19 Disruption Compels Education Innovation
The finances of Canadian universities, which rank among the world’s top five nations as a study destination, are in a tailspin due to the pandemic. In March, new student visas were almost half of what they were in 2019. The writing is on the wall: Canada’s higher...
Scholars Strike! The Nation Reels!
Keen observers of the English language will have noticed the appearance of a new acronym. From the lips of CBC announcers, the keyboards of woke reporters and the throats of protestors comes a two-syllable word that defines a collective of the oppressed: BIPOC, short...
Parliamentary Prorogation Ploy
With the recent prorogation of parliament, Canadians face the chance of an election come September after the government introduces its Speech from the Throne. Many are criticizing the government’s decision to prorogue. Perhaps as all the national parties prepare for...
Making Oil and Gas go the Long- and Wrong-Way Around is No Way to Deal with Pipeline Angst
On July 2nd, 2020, a rather sad milestone or marker of Canada’s misplaced energy and environmental policies – not to mention its handling of federal-provincial relations – occurred. On that day, the first cargo of Western Canadian oil left Burrard Inlet on the Pacific...
Is the University of Calgary a Systemically Racist Institution?
The University of Calgary (UC) has admitted to being a systemically racist institution against Blacks, Indigenous people, and other people of colour. The revelation by its Senior Leaders University Team has hardly received any attention. The shocking admission was...
Do 5G Promises Come with Real Human Costs?
As a science and technology aficionado who believes in using science to promote human health and prosperity, I was startled to find myself being classified as a Luddite in a recent commentary by authored by a Frontier Center research associate. The commentary was...
The United States and the red provinces of North America. What the future might bring for reds and blues across the border. They are increasingly locked in a stubborn and at times violent struggle over each respective countries character, future, and very existence....
Social Media Giants, are They Too Big?
Recently we have heard a lot of discussion about whether various social media companies should be broken up or regulated, due to antitrust violations and whether they have the right, or responsibility, to monitor and censor the content of their user’s posts and...
Extremist Opportunism in the COVID Economy
As with the 2008 financial crisis, such an impact presents an opportunity for far-left and far-right extremists to recruit off the back of legitimate grievances. Coupled with the divisive nature of modern politics, as well as the fact that people are spending more...