This short video covers the key points of Chapter Three "The Blessings of destruction" from Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson." The video tells Hazlitt's Cautionary tale about connecting war with profit. Produced by Access Communications in collaboration with...
The recent marriage of Prince Henry to an American divorcée and the declining vigour of our sovereign majesty Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God Queen of this Realm and of Her Other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, has led some...
The former Kapyong Barracks site, located on 160 acres of prime Winnipeg real estate, has been vacant since 2004 when the military base closed down. The federal government has tried to sell the land but courts have required that they first negotiate with First Nations...
The old home for the Coventry Evening Telegraph is a building frozen in time. The publishers boarded the place up in 2012 when it moved to more modern facilities. Its home of more than 50 years is now an arts space where people come to take pictures. The scene has a...
The finance ministers of over 130 nations and territories have arrived at a tentative agreement that will create a tax floor—a minimum corporate tax rate of a proposed 15 per cent. Its proponents, including Ottawa, sadly, claim it will create a “level playing field”...
Starting September 7th, 2021, the Ontario government required all workers in high-risk settings to either take the COVID-19 vaccine, provide a medical reason for refusing vaccination or undergo regular testing and education. This includes workers in healthcare,...
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has released the 12th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey, which is sponsored in Canada by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. As of the 3rd quarter of 2015, Vancouver’s price-to-income ratio (house...
How low can oil go? For Canadians, the plunging price of oil means direct economic pain in the west, along with rising prices for food and other imports as our dollar drops with it. Those looking for clues about whether 2016 will bring a price recovery have largely...
Gasoline is cheap. Electricity is expensive. Bad environmental policy contributed to both outcomes Have you noticed the modern practice of counting the benefits of environmental policies in “cars-off-the-road” units? When the Tories launched their massive...
On New Year’s Day in Al-Ha’ir Prison south of Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian government executed 47 persons whom they declared to be terrorists or heretics. It was the largest mass execution in nearly 40 years. Forty-three were Sunni members of Al-Qaeda...
This op ed was originally published by Embassy on Wednesday, January 13, 2016: http://www.embassynews.ca/opinion/2016/01/13/pragmatic-multilateralism-as-foreign-policy/48085
In 2014, University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds published a provocative book about U.S. universities, The Education Apocalypse: How It Happened and How to Survive It. In view of recent events at Yale, Princeton, Missouri and other campuses, maybe...
Public transportation is an important contributor to urban mobility, particularly in Canada’s largest metropolitan areas. Despite the fact that most residents view public transportation as a necessity, there is a tendency to think of it as more of a social welfare...
In his speech to the Assembly of First Nations, Prime Minister Trudeau announced that his government will review the First Nations Financial Transparency Act, which requires First Nations to publish audited annual financial statements plus information about the...
Better engineered cars along with the adoption of seat belts and other road safety measures and legislation have contributed to a 58% decline in road fatalities in Canada between 1970 and 2009. The fatality rate is now so low that almost twice as many Canadians die...