On May 15, 1970, the New York Times published an article by esteemed Russia scholar Albert Parry detailing how Soviet dissident intellectuals were covertly passing forbidden ideas around to each other on handcrafted, typewritten documents called samizdat. Here is the...
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The False Spiral of Need – Vaccines in the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Government of Canada and the official medical advisory groups are, once again, recommending the immediate need for more doses of both the existing COVID-19 vaccines and the new Omicron tailored vaccines, as the SARS CoV-2 virus continues to rapidly evolve, mutate,...
Sweden Did It Right – We Did It Wrong (Reprise)
The following article discusses Sweden’s successful policy of keeping schools open throughout the pandemic. Simply put, they resisted the huge pressure excerpted upon them from the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as virtually all of the leaders of the Western...
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...
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Canadian Property Rights Index 2023
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
Past Pandemics Handled With Common Sense
Great events in history usually have one picture that manages to capture their essence. The iconic photo of the American troops planting the flag on Iwo Jima does it for WWII and the disturbing picture of the naked little girl running for her life from napalm,...
More Countries are Quietly Following Sweden
Most countries that adopted the “lockdown” model are still in the thick of the pandemic. Typically, there is an easing of rules when infection rates decrease, but when rules are relaxed and infection rates naturally rise, authorities clamp down again. Masks go off -...
Sweden Did It Right – We Did It Wrong
Sweden Did It Right - We Did It Wrong While most western countries reacted to COVID-19 with shutdowns and relief cheques while imposing a bewildering array of social distancing rules and regulations, Sweden did none of that. Instead, it imposed a minimum number of...
Sweden’s Achievement in Protecting its Democratic Traditions is Worth Emulating
Much ink has been assigned to Sweden for its distinct approach to COVID-19 among Western nations. As more jurisdictions wrestle with lifting economic restrictions, Sweden is praised and condemned. People readily condemn Stefan Löfven’s Social Democrat (Sweden’s NDP...
Pandemic Lockdown: Are We Just Delaying the Inevitable?
Most Western countries have been in lockdown for more than a month to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. Schools have been emptied and all businesses deemed nonessential have been closed by government order. This is an enormously expensive strategy. Our...
Leaders on the Frontier – The Dealers and Deceivers of Data – With Martin Kulldorff
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Why the Right is Eating the Left’s Lunch
Progressives have abandoned the working class and embraced the oligarchs.
In Case of Emergency, Read This! Alberta’s Covid-19 Report
Despite the wreckage wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic – social disintegration, ruined lives, physical and economic tolls – the governments and public officials who “managed” the emergency have been decidedly uninterested in assessing their performance. Except in Alberta, where a government-appointed panel just released its Final Report. Though predictably attacked by politicians, media and “experts” who can abide no dissent, the report makes many sensible recommendations, Barry Cooper finds. The report calls for emergency management experts – not doctors or health care bureaucrats – to be in charge when such disasters strike, with politicians who are accountable to the people making the key decisions. Most important, the report demands much stronger protection for the individual freedoms that panic-stricken governments and overbearing professional organizations so readily quashed.
Jay Bhattacharya: Canadian Courts Complicit In Failed Lockdowns That Violated Rights
An Alberta judge justified the province’s COVID restrictions in July, even though they were illegally implemented