Advocates for centralized financial regulation have met their match in Canada. She is proof that competition between intranational jurisdictions can foster diverse, prosperous capital markets. In our research paper, “The Federal Takeover of Canada’s Capital Markets,”...
Don Cherry has now left the scene. After decades of entertaining hockey fans, it was two words - “You people” - that did him in. Although he later said he meant to say “Everyone”, judgement was swift and the execution was carried out on Remembrance Day. A Canadian...
“Who has seen the wind?” asked Canadian W. O. Mitchell in his 1947 novel. In Alberta, the answer is just about everyone, as the winds of political discontent blow more fiercely than they have in decades. After several difficult years, Albertans watched the Liberals...
Public support for the Monarchy in Canada is lower than in the United Kingdom, but the Queen’s reign isn’t over yet, and there is no real reason to believe that Prince Charles will not become the next Head of State. Quebec aside, Queen Elizabeth remains extremely...
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...
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...
Those who argue that the Canadian federation exhibits plenty of fiscal and program biases against Prairie Canadians will likely see further evidence to that effect, with the most recent study published by the Halifax-based Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS)....
Few will argue that federal government Indigenous policy—whether Liberal or Conservative—has failed Canadians. The federal government will be spending some $21-billion on the delivery of Indigenous programs and services this year. Yet the boil water orders will...
On August 6, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed a motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (Washington) that it be granted intervenor status concerning litigation launched by environmental groups against the Trump administration’s new Affordable...
On September 1st of this year we will commemorate yet another sad anniversary of the bloody horror show that was the Twentieth Century. On that day, eighty years ago, armed forces of Nazi Germany invaded Poland on the pretext of protecting an ethnic minority- the...
When teachers look at the students in their classrooms can they assume that they all come from similar backgrounds and all had the same opportunities while growing up? Anyone who has ever been in a public school classroom knows that the answer to that question is a...
Residents Have Enjoyed Immediate Cost Reduction Utopian legislators in the United States often look with rose-tinted glasses upon the Canadian approach to everything, from higher education and medical care to global warming and international affairs. Since Canadians...
When presidential candidate Bernie Sanders joined a caravan of diabetics for a cross-border shopping trip to buy Canadian insulin, it was a deliberate attempt to publicize his proposed policies to reform healthcare. He likely had no idea that the ensuing media...
Today, many people, in the U.S., Canada, and the rest of the West, have rejected liberal democracy in favor of “woke” identity politics and cultural Marxist “social justice.” Following the Marxist vision of society as a division of classes, with the oppressed victims...
Efforts to stampede the USA and Canada into forsaking fossil fuels and modern farming continue apace. UN and other scientists recently sent out news releases claiming July 2019 was the “hottest month ever recorded on Earth” – nearly about 1.2 degrees C “above...