In November, the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs and the British First Secretary of State announced the winner of the first Canada-United Kingdom Media Freedom Award. The prize, which is designed to promote the free press globally and encourage other nations to...
In his first days in office, President Joe Biden rescinded a Trump-era order that restricted the federal government’s use of diversity training to examine issues around race and gender bias and systemic racism. In doing so, he will be advancing radical and divisive...
For a long time, the discussion about Big Tech has focused on whether a private good can be transformed into a public good, and whether social media platforms constitute an online public square. It’s an important principle and a discussion we need to have as these...
When the British government revealed the existence of a new strain of COVID-19 just days before Christmas, it proved an effective way for the prime minister to enforce strict Tier 4 lockdown measures on much of the south of England with minimal fuss. It also very...
Free citizens have minds of their own and want to pursue their lives as they see fit. This is inconvenient for the elites, who wish to be in charge of everyone’s lives so that they can show their superiority and gain benefit for themselves and their friends. So the...
Demographia International Housing Affordability rates middle-income housing affordability in 94 major housing markets in eight nations: Australia, Canada, China, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. This edition covers the third...
The failure of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC) to win a single seat was, to me, the most surprising revelation of the last federal election. The writing was on the wall for Trudeau, and the Conservatives were going to be squeezed by the insurgent populists. For the...
Public support for the Monarchy in Canada is lower than in the United Kingdom, but the Queen’s reign isn’t over yet, and there is no real reason to believe that Prince Charles will not become the next Head of State. Quebec aside, Queen Elizabeth remains extremely...
On October 24th, the Prime Minister announced that he would continue his progressive agenda despite his Liberals losing 20 seats and 13 votes short of a majority in Parliament. A coalition government was widely expected to be agreed upon, with the NDP opening the door...
There is no other time in recent history that British politics has been so turbulent. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been accused of lying to the Queen by a Scottish court, the Conservative government has lost its majority and kicked out 21 rebel Tory MPs,...
Since the publication of Fully Automated Luxury Communism in 2018, a manifesto by Aaron Bastani, millennials across Canada and the United States have embraced a new Marxism for the 21st Century. A new millennial socialism based on the concept of a post-scarcity...
Recruiting and teaching international students in Canada is big business for private universities, and the federal government has backed a scheme that puts more cash in the pockets of university administrators and wreaks havoc with the Canadian job market. In 2000,...
Once a powerful tool for aiding new research, academic tenure has become a costly burden and a bottleneck for universities trying to keep up with a rapidly-changing educational environment. An overwhelming body of evidence suggests that tenure has become an outdated,...