Well that didn’t take long! Ontario’s school boards, teachers’ unions and Ministry of Education recently began bargaining in an effort to reach agreements across the education sector. The previous agreements, imposed on the sector in 2012 by the McGuinty government’s...
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The Sooner CETA is Ratified, the Better
Last week the Harper Government announced that the highly anticipated Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the European Union had been finalized. The ratification process could take up to two years due to the complexities involved in...
It’s Time for Internal Canadian Free Trade
Since taking office in 2006, the Harper government has negotiated over 40 separate international trade agreements and has championed the idea of free trade around the world as a means of economic and political liberalization and progress. While Canada’s approach...
Keystone XL, Obama, and the Politics of Indecision
Days before a self-imposed deadline, the Obama Administration again delayed its decision on the future of the Keystone XL pipeline last week. It was a delay like previous delays, with the now-routine explanations that more study was needed and that others (a Nebraska...
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The Swedish Response to Covid-19 versus Canada
In a recent New York Times article, David Wallace Wells asked, “How did No-Mandate Sweden End up with such an average pandemic”. Let’s be clear. This admission from the New York Times, who tried to destroy the response to Covid-19, starting in April 2020 and...
Draconian, Anti-Science Measures During the Pandemic Has Led to Loss of Trust in Our Institutions
Candida Auris is a fungus that, unlike most fungi, can survive in a human body. It is capable of spreading within the body, resulting in an agonizing death. For unknown reasons the fungus is spreading at a rather alarming rate. So far, cases have been confined to long...
Canada’s Growing Public Sector Labour Crisis
Canada’s public sector is entering into a crisis state with its labour relations processes. For far too long, Canadians have watched their governments enter into bad agreements at a high price to taxpayers, and now that various levels of government can no longer...
Next steps for the Harper Government
A speech by Robert Murray to the Manning Centre in Calgary about the next steps for the Harper Government, delivered on 1st November, during the Conservative Convention.
Canada’s position on Iran is the right one
The ongoing discussions in Geneva between the U.S., Russia, UK, France, China, Germany and Iran have concluded with an historic deal for the west in its attempt to persuade Iran to cease its quest for nuclear weaponry. The deal is being heralded as a diplomatic...
The sad state of conservatism in Canada
Senate scandals, admissions of smoking crack, threats to fight in the legislature, and an overall lack of innovative ideas: the crisis facing Canadian conservatism today span from the local to the federal and is being felt across the country. There are a variety of...
Alberta’s progressivism should come as no surprise
If one was to rely solely on Canadian media reports on the recent Alberta municipal elections, you would think Alberta went through a seismic political shift from radical conservatism to a sudden progressive awakening in one fowl swoop. Most of this discussion is...