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International Property Rights Index 2019
Canada is in the top 20 quintile, and its IPRI (International Property Rights Index) score is 8,264, a decrease from 2018 by 0.029. Canada's Global ranking is 11. The International Property Rights Index (IPRI), developed by the Alliance for Property Rights, has shown...
Is It Climate Socialism – or Eco-Fascism?
Green New Dealers have convinced themselves that our planet faces an imminent, existential, manmade climate cataclysm – that can be prevented solely and simply by government edicts replacing fossil fuels with biofuel, wind, solar and battery energy. They achieve this...
Land Reserves Are Destructive
Life for farmers in agricultural parts of British Columbia can be hard. Winters are long, the weather is unpredictable, and a couple bad years can put even prepared families at risk of losing their livelihoods. Getting through these challenging periods is easier when...
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Promote Equity by Providing a Quality Education
Earlier this year, a group called Equity Matters asked the province to establish an education equity secretariat. They want this office to oversee equity officers working in Manitoba schools. Equity Matters wants to ensure that all Manitoba students are reflected in...
Why Frances Widdowson Matters
Frances Widdowson probably isn't someone most Canadians recognize. I'm here to tell you why they should. In terms of Canada's intellectual culture, Frances Widdowson matters because she is a classic and prolific academic. In a time when demagoguery easily flourishes,...
Making Schools Better Series: We Need to Empower Classroom Teachers
Teaching is a challenging job, anyone who spends any time in school knows that teachers have a lot of demands placed upon them. Their responsibilities go far beyond basic classroom instruction, from dealing with disruptive student behaviours to organizing extra...
Who Benefits from the New “Aligned” Strategy on International Student Recruitment?
Recruiting and teaching international students in Canada is big business for private universities, and the federal government has backed a scheme that puts more cash in the pockets of university administrators and wreaks havoc with the Canadian job market. In 2000,...
Why Canadian Drugs Can’t Cure Deadly Shortages in the United States
Great White North Lacks Supply, Research to Match Southern Neighbor Crippling drug prices in the United States have brought even Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and President Donald Trump together; they both favor drug imports from Canada to ease the pain. Vermont has...
A Valuation of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, ‘AECL’, is the federal Crown corporation which develops nuclear technology, mainly now in Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, which sells nuclear isotopes for medical and other purposes. Using an intrinsic value method, and discounting to...
Making Schools Better Series: Content Knowledge is the Key to Learning
Something we often hear is that students need to become critical thinkers, but what does this exactly mean? Critical thinking is defined as the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment. Take a step back explore perspectives and come up...
Progressives’ Attempt to Limit Pension Ownership Will Hurt Everyone
In recent days, a controversy flared up, or was orchestrated, when it came to light that some Canadian pension and other institutional investment funds may have owned shares in an American prison-management company called GEO, and another one called CoreCivic. These...
Do MMIW Recommendations Stand Up to Scrutiny?
The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIW) report declares that violence against Indigenous women is genocide. Already, the Senate committee is at work dealing with some MMIW’s 200 plus recommendations. This as part of the Senate’s study of an omnibus...
Making Schools Better Series: Technology in Schools is Overhyped
Thomas Edison is one of the greatest inventors who has ever lived. Some of the inventions that he is credited with include the light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera. I think we can all agree Edison's inventions changed our lives for the better. however, Edison...
Shot in the Head and Who’s to Blame?
The trial of a German tourist who was shot in the head while driving through the Stoney Nakoda Nation, west of Calgary is now taking place in an Alberta courtroom. A German tourist, Horst Stewin, and his wife and son were driving their black Durango SUV through the...