Watch on video - Canada’s Drug Policies are Failing It’s no secret that Canada’s drug policies have been an abysmal failure. In fact, we’re doing so badly that U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening 25% tariffs on all Canadian goods unless we can secure our...
Bell Canada is again using January to raise awareness of issues surrounding Canadians’ mental health. For the past 15 years, the media giant has faithfully produced a “Let’s Talk …” campaign to encourage Canadians to move beyond the “stigma” of mental illness...
It has been days since the federal Liberals told Canadians that their budget shortfall was 50 per cent higher than expected, and Canadians are still reeling from the arrogance and financial malfeasance that produced a $61.9-billion deficit. Canadians are angry...
Perhaps it should be expected that a so-obviously ‘woke’ institution as the Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) would toss aside such antiquated concepts as academic merit as it prepares to open its new medical school in the fall of 2025. After all, until...
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
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...
Oh, Canada. You have been too nice. Too kind. Too silent. For too long. And now a noisy minority is undermining our country’s values, laws and institutions. Protestors have taken over many university campuses and they are fomenting hatred toward Jews and Israel. Few...
“Defining deviancy down” is a cultural philosophy that emerged in the United States during the 1990s. It refers to society’s tendency to adjust its standards of deviancy “down,” so that behaviours which were once unacceptable become acceptable. Over time, this newly-...
Almost three years into the experimental opiate “safer supply” program in British Columbia and no one, including those handing out the pills, seems to know if it is working or making the problem worse. There are no shortage of opinions arguing on either side of the...
A national Pharmacare deal has been reached and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is proclaiming it to be a huge win for his party. But amidst the Gatorade celebrations and public self-congratulatory statements, Mr. Singh and his MPs appear to be blind to the possibility that...
Alberta is trying a different approach, one focused on helping addicts to get off drugs. The early results seem promising.
Almost as many Canadians have been lost to drug overdoses in the last seven years as were killed in combat throughout the Second World War. Yet governments, health care professionals and addiction experts continue to quarrel over virtually every aspect of the opioid...
The government of British Columbia is off on another lengthy legal boondoggle as it seeks to make opioid manufacturers pay for the ongoing epidemic of opioid overdoses. It spent an estimated $75 to $100 million dollars to sue Dr. Brian Day for operating a private...
CCF announces launch of new free book innovative policy solutions to improve Canada’s failing healthcare system
Federal government faces pressure to rethink its safe supply opioid policies