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Farm For Food Not Fear
Fall harvest is in the storehouse. Now, let’s put away all proposals to cap fertilizer inputs to save the earth. Canadian farmers are ensuring food security, not fueling the droughts, fires, or storms that critics unfairly attribute to them. The Saskatoon-based Global...
Vaccine Mandates 3 Years Ago This Week
Three years ago on Sept. 9, 2021, the Biden administration released an executive order on “Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees.” It pertained to all federal employees including the military and contractors too. It was just the...
Terry Etam: EV Industry on Limp-Home Mode; Greenpeace’s Firehose Used Against Them and They’re Not Happy
Summer was pretty quiet, thankfully, but time for a jolt to get reengaged. There’s no better way than getting yelled at, so today let’s talk about a surefire recipe – Electric Vehicles. Those that love EVs really love ‘em, and to speak ill of them in front of the fans...
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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...
Want More Affordable Housing in Canada? Build More Houses
Solving Canada’s housing crisis shouldn’t require more than a single lesson in economics. When prices are high, a free market always responds and supplies more. Yet amidst Canada’s severe problems of housing affordability, this foolproof mechanism is continually...
What Was The Dangerous Purpose?
Carbert, Olieneck were found not guilty of conspiracy to murder police.CBC On August 2, a Lethbridge jury found Chris Carbert and Tony Olienick not guilty of the most serious charge of conspiracy to commit murder of police officers. However, both were found...
Questions Linger After Coutts Verdict
Chris Carbert and Anthony Olienick Courtesy Bridge City News/YouTube The Coutts trial may be over, but the questions it raises about justice and overreach continue. A jury in the trial of Chris Carbert and Anthony “Tony” Olienick rendered a NOT GUILTY verdict...
Provincial Budgetary Shortfalls Show Need for Deep Fiscal Restraint
Manitoba’s provincial government is finding itself in a financial downturn even as it is set to receive an historic 24 per cent bump in its equalization payments. Something is clearly amiss in the land of polar bears, bison, and Slurpees. The problem is the government...
UBCIC Chiefs Commit A Grave Error In Labelling Authors As Racist Deniers
UBCIC Chiefs attempt to suppress open debate on residential schools.
The Global Attack on Small Business
There was a highly conventional travel piece in the New York Times of the sort that such venues have been running for many years now, even decades. It’s about a small resort town in Italy, namely Bologna, that is being wrecked by tourism and corporations moving in to...
RTD is Sinking
The RTD ship is sinking and Colorado legislators want to fix it by rearranging the deck chairs. According to U.S. Department of Transportation data, RTD carried less than 64 percent as many riders in May 2024 as in May 2019, well below the 77 percent average for...
A Letter To Five Canadian Churches
Two years ago, Eric Metaxas, the conservative Christian American author wrote a short, but important, book addressing the American Church. He was concerned the churches were forsaking their Christian principles in not speaking out against the anti-Christian ideologies...
‘Coutts Two’ Verdict: Bail and Mischief
Imagine spending over two years behind bars, only to be told the evidence never supported the charges against you.
On Aug. 2, a Lethbridge jury found Chris Carbert and Tony Olienick not guilty of the most serious charge of conspiracy to commit murder of police officers. However, though they were declared innocent, the conspiracy charge was the basis for their being held in remand for at least 925 days. They were denied bail based on this charge.
The sentencing hearing for other charges against Carbert and Olienick is taking place this week.