Poll Question: March 15, 2023 to March 21 , 2023 Three years ago governments around the world imposed the never before used policy of locking down their economies in response to the Covid 19 respiratory virus. The Charter of Rights was eviscerated with forced...
Poll Question: March 08, 2023 to March 14 , 2023 Canadians learned this week that federal government spending continues to grow at record high levels. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is on track to record the five highest levels of per-person spending (2018...
Poll Question: March 01, 2023 to March 08 , 2023 On Oct 27, 2022, Canada’s parliament unanimously, and without debate, passed a motion that equated residential schools with genocide. This added to the eight genocides officially recognized by the Canadian government in...
Poll Question: February 22, 2023 to February 28 , 2023 The 15-minute city is an urban planning concept in which most daily necessities and services, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure can be easily reached by a 15-minute walk or bike ride from...
In his annual State of the Climate report published on April 14, 2022, Dr. Ole Humlum, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oslo, examined detailed patterns in temperature changes in the atmosphere and oceans together with trends in climate impacts. Many of these...
I wrote an opinion column immediately following the May 27, 2021 announcement of the “shocking discovery of 215 bodies found in a mass grave at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.” In that column, I correctly stressed the need to wait for real...
Dr. Charles Hoffe was a family physician in Lytton, B.C. for almost 30 years until a forest fire burned down his clinic and much of the community in 2021. Among his 900 patients who received the COVID-19 vaccine, two patients went into anaphylactic shock, one person...
The predictable invasion of Ukraine by the Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin, has put the outgunned Ukrainian forces in a very difficult situation. The leaders of the so-called “Free World” are in an ineffectual muddle. Surprisingly, Germany is finally making strong...
Some Canadians wonder what influence the World Economic Forum has on our government, and a viral video on social media has only inflamed suspicions. The WEF was founded by Klaus Schwab in 1971 as a non-profit foundation in Switzerland. According to its website, “The...
“Canada will always be there to defend the right to peaceful protest” - Justin Trudeau, in a reference to protests in India ... Asked why he supported some protests, but was determined to crush the trucker convoy, Justin Trudeau answered without hesitation: He...
Human beings are the way they are because of natural selection. Those characteristics which allow more children to survive and reproduce will push out or select against characteristics are less helpful in having children that will survive and reproduce. We can see...
Our topic: Energy policy plays a central role in the health and vibrancy of Canada's economy and in the quality of life and high living standard of every Canadian. Canada’s enormous energy wealth, particularly its immense conventional oil and gas reserves, is our...
There were many arguments used in the past week to justify calls for the use of the Emergencies Act. In order to bolster the claim that the traffic jam in downtown Ottawa constituted a threat to national security, Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair insisted...
Just the week before, when he invoked the Emergencies Act to deal with what was essentially a local police matter, Justin Trudeau was being compared to brutal dictators, like Xi Jinping. But now, after effectively saying “Just fooling” and revoking the same...
Canada's universal healthcare system is considered by many to be one of the touchstones that symbolize Canadian progress. As such, many consider this public monopoly to be an inviolable piece of Canadian identity and any efforts to change let alone improve it are met...