In a famous 60 Minutes interview, Mike Wallace asks Morgan Freeman how to get rid of racism. Freeman instantly responds by saying that it’s easy: stop referring to him as a Black man and he will stop referring to Wallace as a White man. Freeman says only by removing...
Year: 2020
How Exactly do They Plan to Replace Fossil Fuels?
Berkeley, CA, Takoma Park, MD and other cities; California, Connecticut, New York, Virginia, and other states; Germany, England, and other countries; the European Union – all plan to banish oil, natural gas, and coal within 10, 20 or 30 years. A number of US states...
Canada’s Indigenous Garden of Eden
There’s a television series called First Contact that’s put out by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, and recently broadcast by TV Ontario. The series takes a few people who have had little or no contact with Indigenous people on a tour of Indigenous...
The West Must Stand Up to China Over Wet Markets
The idea that our entire civilisation could depend on millions of foreign slaves that we pretend don’t exist is like something out of a dystopian novel, but it is the world in which we have lived for decades now. COVID-19 is proving to be the wake-up call we needed. ...
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Beijing’s Minions Don’t Belong on Canadian Stock Exchanges
The Chinese economy is growing and surpassing the U.S. economy in size. That stature, with its consequent soft and hard power, means opposition to the Communist Party of China (CPC) regime needs to be multilateral. No matter how much unipolarity the U.S. has enjoyed...
Manitoba Trade with the U.S.: The Need to Strengthen Relations with the Midwest
Trade is essential for Manitoba’s economy. International exports and imports represented 46.4 per cent of GDP for Manitoba in 2018. With a significant goods-related industry estimated at 26.9 per cent of GDP in 2019, Manitoba needs to have strong trading partners to...
Thomas Sowell on the Housing Boom and Bust
"Although the housing boom and bust has national repercussions its origins tended to be concentrated in particular places. Most of the adventurous financing was concentrated in places like coastal areas like California, Phoenix, Florida, which was where the great bulk...
Independence If Necessary … The Winning Conditions
"Separation is not really the right language we want to use. What I want this conversation to turn towards is the winning conditions. I am not in favour of changing just for the sake of changing stuff, but I think we have all come to realize that we need a lot of...
Hazardous Levels of Lead in Canadian Tap Water
Canadians have been exposed to a silent health hazard for more than 40 years: high levels of lead in tap water. Although a clear case of municipal mismanagement, Toronto shows the issue can be handled at the local level with minimal federal oversight—given the right...
Climate Emergency? Do As I Say Not As I Do
What is the climate “emergency”, “crisis”, “catastrophe” (take your pick) really about? According to teenager Greta Thunberg, who now appears to lead the climate crisis campaign, “It is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of...
Transgender Revolution Tramples Free Speech
In the U.K. and much of the western world, women and even transgenders themselves, are less able to express opposition to transgender ideology. The transgender lobby has flipped from supposed tolerance to an out-and-out intolerance for anyone in society that opposes...
Projection in Campus and Party Politics
It is common to observe projection in campus and party politics, and in human affairs generally. “Projection” is a well-understood psychological mechanism in which a person or collective accuses another of doing what the accuser himself or itself is doing....
Modernizing Treaty Annuities – A Policy Blueprint
Almost all aspects of the historical treaties signed between Indian bands and the Crown between 1850 and 1921 have been modernized over the past forty years. The notable exception is the treaty annuity, the single provision in the treaties specifically benefiting...
Milton Friedman – Health Care in a Free Market
Milton Friedman fields questions from medical professionals at the Mayo Clinic regarding his advocacy of a free market in health care. http://www.LibertyPen.com
CPP Tax Hike Hurts Workers
As the calendar flipped this month to 2020, the federal government has again made the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) tax more expensive. The combined employee and employer contribution rate has risen from 10.2 percent in 2019 to 10.5 percent this year, while the maximum...