From Truth Comes Reconciliation
Essay
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
“You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.” — Walker Percy “Our species is 300,000 years old. For the first 290,000 years, we were...
Battleground: Family
Could #Leave Our Kids Alone Mark the Beginning of a Broader Protest Movement?
Covid Redux
Once More Into The Breach, Dear Friends?
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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 Canadian Constitution
A Basic Understanding
The RCMP Failed Canadians at Kamloops
The RCMP has a long and honourable history, and has served Canadians well. RCMP top brass and regular officers have always insisted on doing their job in their own way. They have robustly specifically resisted all attempts by politicians to interfere in their clear...
Macdonald’s Legacy (Part 5): Patricide Never Serves the Common Good
Part 5 of a 5 part series
Macdonald’s Legacy (Part 4): Immense Challenges and a National Strategy
Part 4 of a 5 part series
Macdonald’s Legacy (Part 3): Canadian Confederation’s Indispensable Man
Part 3 of a 5 part series
After Covid: Twelve Challenges for a Shattered World
Three years ago, in the depths of lockdowns, it became obvious that we desperately needed a new citizen movement with a different focus. Prevailing ideological forms were simply not adapted to the enormous exogenous shock to the system that lockdowns implied. It was...
Macdonald’s Legacy (Part 2): The Man and His Vision for Canada
Part 2 of a 5 part series
Ottawa’s and BC’s Plans for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples will Destroy Canada
“A government’s most basic function is the protection of its sovereignty.” – Simon Schama Internal attacks by our political and judicial elites against the sovereignty of our country’s federal, provincial, and territorial governments are placing the existence of...
Macdonald’s Legacy (Part 1): Reclaiming a Foundational Leader
Part 1 of a 5 part series