It was July 24, 1967. French President Charles de Gaulle had travelled to Quebec, ostensibly to visit Canada’s Expo 67. But the old rascal had something entirely different in mind. He had come to Canada for one reason, and one reason only - to stir up trouble. And he...
The notion that an ever growing and/or wealthier population can only deliver environmental doom has been the standard foundational belief of the modern environmental movement. The latest variation on this theme was arguably best summed up over a decade ago by business...
The Royal Canadian Mint, or ‘RCM’, is the federal Crown corporation which produces the coin currency, one and two dollar and smaller coins, used in circulation for consumer financial transactions in Canada. Using an intrinsic value method, and discounting to the...
In a recent article about climate change, Seth Borenstein, a science writer with the Associated Press, gave us a master class on how to sell the results of a computer model as if it represents reality. In the Borenstein world, a group of scientists can take a...
A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, the only thing keeping Air Canada alive is the federal-government bailouts. They are delaying the inevitable and sensible way out: cutting travel restrictions, encouraging tourism by ensuring effective containment and...
In the wake of nearly every mass killing (except, perhaps, those involving bombs, knives, or motor vehicles), a call comes from the virtue-signalling weepy social engineers for more restrictive laws on guns. In the United States, where the recent horrific mass...
The “60s’ Scoop” has been much in the news recently, and I expect that we will hear much more about it in the coming weeks and years. In fact, I am guessing that there are already plans to make it the subject of the next national inquiry, soon after the Missing...
A recent study claims that 90 per cent of classes in Alberta are way over the provincial standard of 17 students per class. But how much do class sizes affect a child’s learning process? Michael Zwaagstra, a senior fellow with the Frontier Centre joins Rob...
Legalize and tax marijuana and the budget will balance itself. Marijuana advocates from stoners to recreational users to the Prime Minister have tried to convince us of this for years. It makes some sense that a product so commonly used should be regulated, not...
Teachers in more than 40,000 classrooms across Canada are providing their students with false information about the tragic death of young Chanie Wenjack whose frozen body was found curled up beside a railway track in northwestern Ontario on October 23, 1966. The...
Part 2 of John Robson's documentary comparing climate change alarmism with widely accepted facts about the past state and present condition of the Earth.
It has been decades since the Devine government was in power in Saskatchewan, but traces of his economic decisions are still remnant in the province today. The 1980s were full of economic turmoil for Saskatchewan, commodity price collapse, extreme weather conditions...
Teaching is a challenging job. Anyone who has spent a few days in a school knows that teachers have a lot of demands placed upon them. Their responsibilities often go far beyond basic classroom instruction. From dealing with disruptive student behaviours to organizing...
At one of Canada’s elite universities, McGill University in Montreal, a series of disturbing anti-Semitic incidents have drawn wide attention and unsettled Jewish students and faculty members. There have been repeated campaigns to “Boycott, Divest, and Sanction”(BDS)...