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Trump Isn’t the Problem—Canada Is. Barry Cooper Explains Why
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Canadians No Longer Trust Their Government. And For Good Reason
Trudeau’s government suppresses dissent while selectively applying justice Niccolò Machiavelli once wrote, “We’re going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because while others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind.” Today, Canadians...
Fictions, Lying And The Context Of Canadian Politics Today
A generation ago, Hannah Arendt began her reflections on the Pentagon Papers, a forty-seven- volume history of American decision-making during the Vietnam War published by the New York Times, with an essay, “Lying in Politics.” The subject concerned government...
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Canadian Property Rights Index 2023
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Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
New Essay By Barry Cooper Exposes Trudeau Government’s Web Of Deception
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Winnipeg, February 26, 2025 – Canada’s political landscape is drowning in lies, media manipulation, and ideological control—and Barry Cooper is calling it out. In his explosive new essay, Fictions, Lying, and the Context of Canadian Politics...
Power, Protest, and Prairie Politics Alberta’s Story Through Ted Morton’s Journey
Strong and Free is Morton’s autobiography, and a classic study of Alberta politics. Once a generation or so, a book re-sets the agenda on understanding Alberta politics. The first of these was C.B. Macpherson’s 1953 volume, Democracy in Alberta; the second was...
In Case of Emergency, Read This! Alberta’s Covid-19 Report
Despite the wreckage wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic – social disintegration, ruined lives, physical and economic tolls – the governments and public officials who “managed” the emergency have been decidedly uninterested in assessing their performance. Except in Alberta, where a government-appointed panel just released its Final Report. Though predictably attacked by politicians, media and “experts” who can abide no dissent, the report makes many sensible recommendations, Barry Cooper finds. The report calls for emergency management experts – not doctors or health care bureaucrats – to be in charge when such disasters strike, with politicians who are accountable to the people making the key decisions. Most important, the report demands much stronger protection for the individual freedoms that panic-stricken governments and overbearing professional organizations so readily quashed.
Danielle Smith interviews Dr. Marco Navarro-Génie and Dr. Barry Cooper, senior research fellows at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy about their new book The Politics of Pandemic Moral Panic. (16 minutes) Listen to the interview here
New Book Release: COVID-19: The Moral Panic of Pandemics
COVID-19 The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic explores the political and social responses that have been tributary to the medical responses during the COVID-19 pandemic. What is a moral panic? The term was introduced by Stanley Cohen in his 1972 book, Folk Devils...
COVID-19 The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic
COVID-19 The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic explores the political and social responses that have been tributary to the medical responses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Freedomtalk2019: Barry Cooper Presents 5 Challenges to Independence
"I can remember discussions when I was a kid about social credit, both of my grandfathers agreed that it had nothing to do with Socialism, but beyond that they were mystified. one lived in BC and one lived in Alberta. When you reflect on the context you will see that...
Challenges for Western Independence
As readers will learn soon enough, the greatest historical challenge to Canadian unity is derived from the imperial pretensions of Laurentian Canada. The current problems with the federation are simply derivative of a historical political, economic, and mythical...
Saskatchewan Political Culture and the Grant Devine Era
Barry F. Cooper This paper looks at the 1982 Saskatchewan provincial election, which brought Grant Devine to power, as a “critical election” in the sense that it had long-term consequences regarding what would subsequently be acceptable as public policy in that...