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...
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America 2023 Is Not Quite Germany 1930s… Yet
Leftists specialize in pejorative labeling of anyone who disagrees with them, calling them racist, sexist, homophobe, transphobe, Islamophobe, deplorable, etc. But they save their ultimate insults for their most important targets; they are labeled “fascists,” “Nazis,”...
Peggy’s Legacy
From the earliest times, European newcomers and Indigenous people in what is now Canada have worked together. Indigenous people showed early Europeans how to survive in our harsh northern climate. They assisted militarily in the battles between the factions claiming...
The ‘Giant Grift’ That Swallowed Wall Street—and Maybe Your Savings
‘The only healthy endgame for ESG is another acronym: RIP. And it will not be a moment too soon.’ Do not get Dorian Deome started on the bureaucrats investing his life savings in this trendy, new fangled thing they call environmental, social, governance, or...
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The Man who Saved the Plains Indians
At the time of Confederation, Canada’s Plains Indians were in a desperate situation. The same European-introduced guns and horses that resulted in a briefly glorious golden age for them had also resulted in constant inter-tribal warfare and the rapid disappearance of...
Renewed Talk of Abolishing the Indian Act
Political attacks on the Indian Act are back in the news, and that is a good thing. However, Canadian politicians, including First Nation politicians, need a credible plan about what to do before we pull out the champagne. Attacking the Indian Act is not a big deal...
The Global Industrialization of Space Junk: Introduction of the Kessler Syndrome to a Public Policy Process
“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.” John F. Kennedy In November, Russia destroyed one of its own old space satellites, Cosmos 1408, a 2,200-kg intelligence satellite launched in 1982,...
Toxic Masculinity—A Public Health Crisis
Students at Western University walked out of class on September 17 to protest a "culture of misogyny". This following a series of sexual assault allegations made on social media of mass drugging and sexual assaults at the Medway-Sydenham Hall residence on campus...
Resetting Gender Etiquette: Unwanted Sexualized Behaviour and Sexual Assault at Postsecondary Schools
We are a uniquely privileged society. We place the highest premium on our justice system, press, judiciary, and protections of human rights. And yet even we continue to see troubling trends with regard to unwanted sexualized behaviour and sexual assault across the...
Loyalty: The Sticky Mortar of Our Social Structures
Society is built on this idea we label loyalty. We are expected to exhibit loyalty to our families, to our schools, to our careers, workplaces, colleagues, and to sports teams and brands. This notion about loyalty is ingrained into our psyches early in our...
Social Conflict Abridged: From Unperceived Injuries to Claiming—What is Conflict?
Societies today are in a state of flux influenced by myriad factors—globalization versus nationalism, liberalization versus traditional values, and immigration versus closed borders. Some people perceive that an injustice has been committed against them while others...
Society in a Vise
Society constantly changes. And with change arise risks and opportunities. How we respond is an expression of our values regarding individual and human rights, freedom, and liberty. The expressions of these values arise from our conceptions of justice—what is right,...
Are There Really Thousands of Missing Indigenous Children?
Canada has always been known throughout the world as a peaceful and thoroughly decent country. Not anymore. Our international reputation is now in tatters. Allegations that bodies of Indian Residential School (IRS) students have been discovered in secret graves have...
Global Fragmentation: The False Hope and Unrealistic Promises of Global Development Goals
In September 2000, one hundred and ninety-one member states established the United Nations Millennium Development Goals:1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; Achieve universal primary education; Promote gender equality and empower women; Reduce child mortality;...
Heroin: U.S. Withdrawal, Counternarcotics Policies in Afghanistan, and the Looming Epidemic
There are many natural and geo-political phenomena that will affect the next several decades; climate change, COVID-19 and its variants, social unrest, and rising tensions between China and the United States amongst them. As governments and societies learn to...