For generations, we allowed representatives of candidates to scrutinize electoral votes to avoid error or malice from an election official. Neither bribery, nor favouritism, nor incompetence would have any effect. Vote machines have the same vulnerabilities....
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Health Risks from Water Fluoridation are not just in RFK’s Head
Water fluoridation has returned to the forefront of public policy debates thanks to environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy is expected to have a role in the Department of Health and Human Services, giving his opinion more weight than ever. In a post...
What Can We Do About Our Corrupted Universities?
AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey The Enlightenment-inspired higher education that I encountered during my 1958-72 studies at Antioch College and the University of Chicago, and at McGill University for much of the time when I was a professor there beginning in 1968, was...
Solar’s Dirty Secret: Expensive and Unfit for the Grid
Solar energy’s promise of a green, abundant future is captivating—but beneath the shiny panels lies a story of unreliability, hidden costs, and grid instability. Green enthusiasts endorse solar energy to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from traditional energy...
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Canadian Property Rights Index 2023
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
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...
Churchill’s Greatness: A Reflection on the 150th Anniversary of His Birth
November 30 marks the 150th anniversary of Winston Churchill’s birth. This anniversary comes five months after the Sir Winston Churchill Society of Calgary installed a statue of him at the McDougall Centre grounds. In defiance of cancel culture, it embodied,...
Canada is at a Crossroads. It is Time to Reclaim our Prosperity and Freedom
Canada has everything it needs to succeed. What we lack is a government that puts Canadians first
Canada Fulfills the Dystopian Vision
Poet T.S. Elliot once wrote, “This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.” Canada has fallen but has all the illusion of being what it always was. Many Canadians fail to see a dystopian future foretold decades ago has arrived. Our...
What Ignited Antisemitism in North America?
The justifications used throughout history to hate, exclude, abuse, and murder Jews have been many and varied. In Christian countries, Jews were accused of murdering Jesus, of poisoning wells, of slaughtering Christian children whose blood was needed to make matza...
It’s Time To Stop Church Arsons And What Fuels Them
Religious freedoms and the right to worship have been a recognized hallmark of civilized societies for centuries. The preamble of Canada’s constitution says our country is built on the principles that acknowledge the supremacy of God and the rule of law. In defiance...
The Most Devastating Report So Far
Brownstone Institute
GIESBRECHT: Another Mass Grave?
No. One outrageous lie was quickly discounted, yet another lives on, to the detriment of everybody involved. "My brother Rufus saw them take all those children and stand them up next to a big ditch, and then the soldiers shot them all and they all fell into...
Hungarian Revolution of 1956: A Valiant Effort to Overthrow Communist Rule
Civilians wave Hungary’s national flag from a captured Soviet tank in Budapest’s main square during the anti-communist uprising of October 1956. AP Photo After World War II ended in the summer of 1945, the Soviet Red Army found itself to be in possession of...
Lowering Teacher Education Standards Will Harm Students
Judging by Manitoba’s growing deficit, math doesn’t appear to be the government’s strong suit. Now the government seems to want all Manitobans to have equally poor math skills. Last month, the province quietly removed all subject requirements for entry into a...