There is nothing simple about the story of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools. For one thing, what we think of as the Indian residential schools underwent considerable change during their 126-year history, with fluctuations in size, focus, and influence. Beginning as...
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Feminist Lynchings
It has become an almost daily experience in Canada and the United States for a man to be accused of sexual misconduct by a woman, often anonymous, and for an almost immediate pile-on of haters among friends (soon to be ex-friends), colleagues, acquaintances, and...
It's rare that a Canadian university prof ends up on talk shows around the world. But Jordan Peterson, who teaches psychology at the University of Toronto, got there because he refused to the obey the rule that says people who self-identify as 'trans gender' are...
Drive Slowly On Subsidies For Rural Bus Service
Greyhound Canada stunned many in Western Canada with a surprise, summer announcement that it’s pulling its buses out of all four Western provinces. The July 9 statement blames an aging population, urban migration and competition from ultra low-cost airlines like Swoop...
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Military Conquest is Meaningless Without True Social Renewal
The hasty, defeatist and craven withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan in August has compelled the so-called “civilized” Western nations and their leaders to confront the failures and errors of the past 20 years, which resemble those of earlier conflicts....
What Life Looks Like Outside COVID-19 Hysteria
Travel and work over the past two years have brought me to many different jurisdictions. What continues to strike me is the way the responses to COVID-19 have been varied, arbitrary and often draconian. I look back at Canada and see raging debates over mask mandates,...
Wendell Cox joins Global News to discuss the advantages, or disadvantages to implementing a High Speed Train from Vancouver to Portland. (~10 minutes)
Balancing the Indigenous Claims of Institutional Discrimination
Manitobans keep hearing about the negative ways that institutions treat Indigenous people. Think of what has been said during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women, the Sixties Scoop, the Tina Fontaine and the Colton Bushie...
Profile Series: Ian Gladue
Ian Gladue, 39, is the ideal Indigenous entrepreneur. He saw a need within the Indigenous community and he acted to fill it. Gladue, a native of Bigstone Cree Nation in northern Alberta on Treaty 8 territory, is the co-owner of Native Delights – a restaurant in...
Against Diversity
In the last few days, two academic conferences were criticized for not being sufficiently “diverse.” A conference to empower women and train them for leadership was cancelled by St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, because, according to university...
It’s said that in life you get what you pay for. Including unemployment...
The Environment: A True Story Part 12 – The Key Is In The Past
Part 12 of John Robson's documentary comparing climate change alarmism with widely accepted facts about the past state and present condition of the Earth.
Complexity, Nuance, Truth: The 3:10 to Yuma and Indian Residential Schools
On a Saturday afternoon that presented me with a few idle hours, I sat down on the living room sofa to watch director James Mangold’s 2007 film, 3:10 to Yuma, starring Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, and — oh my goodness! — Peter Fonda in a supporting role. I’d popped...
To Frack or Not to Frack? That Is the Question For Nova Scotia
Hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known as ‘Fracking,’ is a common technique to extract oil and gas from deep underground rock formations. During hydraulic fracturing, a special fluid is injected into a rock formation with enough pressures to fracture the oil- and...
Anti-Diversity and Comic Books
Consumers of popular culture, aware of the recent box-office success of the movies Black Panther and Wonder Woman, may have been puzzled by recent claims that the world of fantasy entertainment – comics, films, books – was deemed to be suffering a crisis in diversity....