The sudden uprising of university students across North America in support of Hamas and allegedly about the welfare of Palestinians does not result, for most students, from close ties with people on the other side of the world. Of course, there is in North America a...
ESG & DEI
DEI Needs to DIE
The policy of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (so-called DEI) holds that marginalized or previously discriminated groups should have preference in hiring, training, and promotion to higher managerial levels in workplaces. Fighting so-called systemic racism,...
The Call To Abandon ESG Is A Plea For Indigenous Prosperity
If the activists behind ESG cared, they would not stand in the way of First Nation and Metis communities that wish to move from poverty to prosperity through energy projects. Initially, the three criteria to measure or value investments – Environment, Social, and...
The Tale of Two Teachers
At L.A. Matheson, a high school in Surrey, B.C., a poster in Annie Ohana’s classroom suggests society is too moralistic about sex work, the quote coming from an avowed Satanist. National Post writer Jamie Sarkonak described her classroom in this way: “The walls are...
Featured News
There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
The Post-National Cult of Diversity Promotes Authoritarian Intolerance
“There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada. ... Those qualities are what make us the first post-national state.” — Justin Trudeau, 2015. Throughout history, populations with sufficient historical, geographic, linguistic, economic, religious, and cultural...
A Teacher Who Won’t Salute
My Warholian fifteen minutes of fame came not from a father (Roy) who helped hammer out over glasses of Scotch the “Kitchen Cabinet” compromise that saved the patriation of Canada’s Constitution Act (1982) or a great-great-great-grandfather, Charles Waters, an early...
Canada’s 50-30 Cultural Marxist Challenge
The fight for equality has morphed into equity, and with it a quest to empower minorities over all considerations–including merit. In other words, increasingly people are being hired and promoted on the basis of the colour of their skin and not the content of their...
From a US President to a Local School Trustee: No One is Safe in an Era of Kafkaesque Absurdity
A hundred years after Kafka’s “The Trial” was first published, the West has descended into an era in which absurd allegations are the new normal.
Graham Lane: ESG Doctrine and Why It Should not be Adopted in Professional Organizations – A Letter to CPA Manitoba
The following introductory comments by Ian Madsen, Senior Policy Analyst, Frontier Centre for Public Policy provide background on Graham Lane whose attached letter to CPA Manitoba strongly criticizes that organization’s embrace of ESG. Graham Lane is a retired CA and...
Lists To Make the Woke Broke
Do you want to place your money and vote away from the woke? The tools to help you choose have finally arrived. The 1792 Exchange examined 2000 corporations for their “wokeness.” The public policy non-profit’s website defines “woke” corporations as those that “use...
Does Academic Freedom Protect Genocidal Anti-Semitism?
American and Canadian university campuses rang for weeks on end with celebrations of Hamas’s “great victory” of Oct. 7. The murder of civilians, the burning alive of families, the gang rape of women to death, the roasting of children in ovens, and the beheading of...
FLOP28 – Climate Proposals Would Devastate Economy
Politicians, academics, celebrities, self-appointed activists, protesters, and green energy industry lobbyists recently gathered in Dubai at their annual Climate Crisis jamboree (COP28). Their central belief, from their computer models, is that human-generated global...
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion—and the Elimination of Jews
All of our institutions—government, education, media, professions, and industry—are formally and fully committed to “social justice,” the explicit specifics of which are diversity, equity, and inclusion, with the quiet part being the elimination of Jews. The quiet...