If I were to buy a Tesla, because I thought it was the best car in the world, but had trouble making the payments for it and for my mortgage, and in the end lose my car and my house, who is responsible: the Tesla advertisers, the banks that extend credit, my boss who...
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Making School Better Series: No Zero Policies Are Just as Useless as Ever
Remember Lynden Dorval? He was the Edmonton high school teacher that was fired because he refused to follow his schools "No Zero Policy." His firing set off a storm of controversy and drew much attention to No-Zero policies in general. A No-zero policy means teachers...
Federal Media Subsidies Undermine the Provinces and Foster Dependency
The announced federal government subsidy for “trusted” media outlets risks undermining provincial jurisdictions. The federal lathering of a $595-million subsidy on “trusted” media over five years may encourage a regressive democratic step of making more outfits more...
New Zealand’s Maori Child Welfare Problem
I have been asked to describe Canada’s Indigenous child welfare problem. I am told that there are similarities between it and New Zealand’s Maori child welfare issues. I confess that I am largely ignorant of the New Zealand situation, but I have some experience with...
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Celebrating Manitoba’s Fisher River First Nation
Indigenous communities in Manitoba face some of the greatest obstacles. Over the years, when the UN Human Development Index was applied to First Nation communities across Canada, Manitoba First Nations often ranked lowest. So, it’s important to highlight some of the...
UK-Canada Nuclear Fusion Project Could Generate Jobs, Unite Climate Alarmists and Skeptics
For a long time, nuclear fusion has been a sci-fi fantasy; the holy grail of energy production that involves the combination of multiple atomic nuclei to generate energy. It’s the same process used by the sun to create energy, and the opposite of nuclear fission,...
Profile Series: Steven Satour
Steven Satour – a driven Indigenous Australian entrepreneur – is more than happy that he has achieved his childhood dream of working in the tourism sector and sharing his Indigenous culture with the outside world. “Australia is home to the oldest living culture of the...
Two, and Even More, Glaring Reasons to Mistrust Global Warming Activists’ Sincerity and Integrity
In December we were treated, if that is the word, to the sorrowful and accusatory screed of an earnest Swedish teenager, as she cast gloom and guilt globally while comfortably ensconced in a heated auditorium at the latest United Nations Climate Change Conference in...
Climate Hysterics Skyrocket
Call it climate one-upmanship. It seems everyone has to outdo previous climate chaos rhetoric. The “climate crisis” is the “existential threat of our time,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her House colleagues. We must “end the inaction and denial of science that threaten...
Classifying Uber Drivers as Employees Inhibits Innovation
Uber has brought accessible income and affordable transport to tens of millions worldwide. Its disruptive presence, however, has ruffled Luddites and the self-entitled who prefer antiquated supervision to innovative enterprise. This standoff is playing out in Canada's...
Why Men Are Falling Behind in Schools
North American universities have been taken over by women. Men are decreasingly university students, professors, and administrators. “Gender equality,” a feminist war chant, apparently does not apply when females dominate. In the United States, women outnumber men in...
Newfoundland Sees the Light
St. John’s sees the sunrise four-and-a half hours before Victoria. This means Newfoundlanders are the first to see the light, and British Columbians, the last. Unfortunately, some who leave the west coast to study on the Rock get an unwelcome surprise. Students who...
The Environment: A True Story Part 34 – How Warm Should It Be
Part 34 of John Robson's documentary comparing climate change alarmism with widely accepted facts about the past state and present condition of the Earth. So what is the optimum temperature of our planet? (3 minutes)
Let’s Do Follow the Climate Money!
The climate crisis industry incessantly claims that fossil fuel emissions are causing unprecedented temperature, climate and weather changes that pose existential threats to human civilization and our planet. The only solution, Climate Crisis, Inc. insists, is to...
Cities Must Eat Humble Pie, Recognize Cyber Vulnerability
Cybercriminals have caught Canadian municipalities flatfooted. Either our cities get with the times or send more taxpayer money and private data out the door. Cybercrime costs Canada $3.12 billion a year. A portion of that involves ransom payments to cybercriminals...