When "Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAID) was decriminalized in 2016, that result apparently confirmed a powerful social bias in favour of personal freedom. Presented as a free choice -- affecting no one else -- euthanasia seemed acceptable to most Canadians. However,...
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Racially Based ‘Justice’ Is Built on Flawed Reasoning
Provincial justice ministers of Manitoba and Saskatchewan are urgently calling on the federal government to “convene a bail reform summit to address the increasing level of violence faced by Canadians.” Other provincial justice ministers have voiced similar concerns....
Canadians on the Move, to Smaller Communities
The Canadian Dream is increasingly being realized in smaller areas For decades, Canadians moved to the larger cities (census metropolitan areas, or CMAs) with their economic opportunities. The latest estimates indicate that CMAs have 72 per cent of the nation’s...
The Strange Conclusions of Justice Paul Rouleau
Justice Paul Rouleau released his Report on February 17, and “concluded that the very high level threshold required for the invocation of the (Emergencies) Act was met.” He insists “cabinet had reasonable grounds to believe there existed a national emergency arising...
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A Year of LNG Royalties/Taxes from a Single Pipeline Could Pay for …
Sitting on top of one of the world’s largest and richest natural resource warehouses is turning into quite a disconcerting distraction. While much of Canada’s population – the heavily urban part for whom “rural” means Whistler, Muskoka, or Mont Tremblant – likes to...
Medical Martial Law – Never Again
The economic upheaval now roiling over the world’s financial markets, rapidly lowering living standards, and even threatening to freeze Europeans this winter, is all directly related to the radical decision most western leaders took in March of 2020., when a new...
Leon Fontaine – A Passionate Canadian Thought Leader – RIP
This past weekend, we learned of the tragic and unexpected passing of Pastor Leon Fontaine at 59 years of age. Leon was a gifted leader playing many roles both nationally and internationally. He was, with his wife Sally, the senior Pastors at Springs Church with...
Peckford: The Public Order Emergency Inquiry is a Flawed Process
Emergency Inquiry Play—All Those Bureaucrats Obfuscate, Confuse Giving the Leaders the Ammunition They Need —So Canadians, You Get the Picture—— The Public Order Emergency Inquiry is a flawed process. The Government investigating itself. Setting the terms of...
Etam: Wealthy Californians “Just Stop Oil” Campaign – Popular in Europe; has Anyone asked, say, Bangladesh?
“Kindly let me help you or you will drown said the monkey putting the fish safely up a tree.” – Alan Watts That’s a quasi-parable about how ignorance can maim helpfulness, turning well-being into harm, through pure innocence. But…that parable assumes the...
Net Zero Carbon Means Near Zero Saskatchewan Industry
The problem with the path to net zero carbon emissions is its accompanying net zero environmental benefits and its net zero improvement in our standard of living. Net zero is an anti-human hellbent path to scarcity that threatens wealth creation, leaving all but a few...
Finally—Stefanson Needs to Think Big on Hudson Bay Opportunities
Manitoba premier Heather Stefanson finally voiced support for more energy exports out of Hudson Bay. That is very good news because the potential is real and the reasons to refuse are illusory. “We are looking at liquefied natural gas, primarily,” Stefanson told...
The Democrats’ False Victory
A progressive bloodbath has merely been delayed For all their cautious optimism yesterday, a mild midterms victory may prove the last thing the Democrats need. If they had performed as predicted, the Democrats and their media adjuncts would now be busily...
Public Inquiries and Public Trust
Testimony before the Public Order Emergency Commission reveals the case for government invoking the Emergencies Act is either weak or very weak. The Prime Minister was, in fact, opposed to members of his cabinet or senior public health officials meeting with protest...
Escaping From the COP-27 Insane Asylum
Let’s hope climate talks finally come to grips with energy, scientific and economic reality “Show us the money!” climate activists demand, and rich countries are expected to pony up. Do I hear $100 billion? Would you give $1 trillion? Now, then, would you give $2...
Peckford: Why Won’t the Federal Government of Canada Question Me?
I have launched a lawsuit with other Canadians that alleges that the Federal Government of Canada has violated our rights and freedoms under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms which is an integral part of the country’s Constitution Act 1982. I am the only living first...