Like a bad memory we’d like to block out, many Canadians ignore or even scoff at the question of what their retirement will look like. For some, it is in the distant future, but for many, it is right around the corner. More than 21.8% of the working population is...
Year: 2022
The Big Green Lie Almost Everyone Claims to Believe
Almost every member of Congress, Democrat or Republican, pays homage to the Big Green Lie. So do all the past and remaining Conservative candidates vying to be prime minister of the U.K. and every candidate currently vying for the leadership of the Conservative Party...
Professionals Should be Allowed to Speak Freely
The Ontario College of Teachers (OCT) serves as the regulatory body for public school teachers in Ontario. When a complaint comes in, the OCT is obligated to investigate and, if the teacher is found guilty, decide on an appropriate consequence. By investigating...
Does Canada Now Have a Two-Tiered Justice System?
The FBI raid on the home of former President Donald Trump has emphasized existing concerns that the United States now has a two-tiered justice system--one for those in power, and another for those who aren’t. But here in Canada we have a quieter version of that same...
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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...
‘Cyber Pandemic’ Cure Worse than the Disease
The old adage “Never let a good crisis go to waste,” has found new life. Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman has said a “cyber-attack with COVID-like characteristics” could soon strike the world and “bring a complete halt to the power...
Thinking Longer Term: Covid on First Nations
The pandemic is showing us the consequences of not adequately addressing housing and health care issues on Indigenous communities in Manitoba. Back in April 2020, I wrote an editorial that showed how Indigenous communities – while protected at first from the pandemic...
Vaccine Mandates Reveal that the State is our Enemy
Albert Nock was a noted 20th century American libertarian who along with H.L. Mencken, recognized the pre-conditions necessary to accurately foresee the onset of both the Great Depression and WWII. In his 1935 treatise “Our Enemy: The State,” Nock wrote that: ...there...
Former Premier Peckford vs Pandemic Narrative: Big Tech / Media to Blame (Part 3 of 3)
Brian Peckford, Newfoundland and Labrador’s premier from 1979 to 1989, believes a false consensus on coronavirus has been manufactured by selective coverage and censorship courtesy of Big Tech and mainstream media. “Big Tech are Facebook and Twitter who have had the...
Former Premier Peckford vs Pandemic Narrative: Solutions (Part 2 of 3)
The pandemic response has been misguided and contrary to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, says former Newfoundland premier Brian Peckford. The sole living First Minister from the constitutional negotiations in 1981-82 believes lockdowns and vaccine passports were...
Former Premier Peckford vs Pandemic Narrative: Peckford Opposes Pandemic Policy (Part 1 of 3)
Former Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford says pandemic responses by governments and medical authorities are unconstitutional and misguided and disregard relevant facts and research. Peckford, premier from 1979 to 1989 is the last living First Minister present for...
Longer Days Are Coming! Cheaper Solar Power, Not So Much.
Wind and solar power, we are always told, are really cheaper than fossil-fuel power, if you tot up the true costs of using each type. These arguments have always been dubious on their merits, if not outright disingenuous. Yes, the wind is free and the sunshine is...
Brace Yourself for Inflation
Inflation, simply put, is the overall decline in the value of money. As prices increase the less each dollar is worth. The larger the increase in the price of goods and services, the more individuals are required to spend each year on living expenses — housing, fuel,...
Why the Courts Won’t Rule on the Violations of Our Rights
Frontier senior fellow Leighton Grey is a lawyer who is working with the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) on court challenges to lockdowns and vaccine mandates, as well as other related cases. Recently he was interviewed by Strong and Free Canada, a...