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The Endemic Path is the Way Out

The Alberta premier’s plan to treat the coronavirus as endemic was the way out of the COVID crisis. That he is once again adopting restrictions for the province, for the fourth time, does not negate the endemic approach.  But his declaration, paraphrasing President...

Can't Pick And Choose Free Speech. The barometer on campus free of expression has found one Manitoba University wanting, but it is not one of the worst. the 2012 Campus Freedom Index measures the state of free speech at campuses of Canadian Universities and is...

The Real Reasons for the Gender Pay Gap

The Real Reasons for the Gender Pay Gap

For decades, politicians, pundits, and activists have clamoured about a “gender pay gap” and have cited statistics purporting to show that the economy is unfair to women, who get paid only around 70 to 80 cents for every dollar earned by men. And for just as long,...

Funding the Climate-Industrial Complex

Funding the Climate-Industrial Complex

Supposedly “green” or “renewable” energy has become a trillion-dollar-plus annual industry that has spawned tens of thousands of new businesses worldwide. The total Climate-Industrial Complex is a $2-trillion-per-year business. Major fossil fuel companies like Shell...

What Happened to Our Universities?

What Happened to Our Universities?

As extensively documented, our universities have been swept up into a new cultural movement, the so-called “social justice” movement. “Social justice” ideology is based on the Marxist vision that the world is divided into oppressor classes and oppressed classes....

Population Growth Leads to Challenges

Population Growth Leads to Challenges

For the first time in decades, Manitoba’s unemployment rate has risen above the national average.  With the provincial economy growing (briskly for Manitoba) around 2% a year, we might have expected ‘some’ declining unemployment rates and labour shortages.  But, it’s...