One of the arguments against single-family zoning is that separating housing from other uses forces people to drive to shops, work, and other destinations. Urban planners want to redesign cities so that people can walk to most of those destinations. They even have a...
Commentary
Zinchuk: Oilpatch Only Spending Half What It Spent in 2014
Back in the lofty, pre-Justin Trudeau government days of 2014, back when oil was booming, pipelines were planned to east and west coasts, and Alberta and Saskatchewan were swimming in money, around $81 billion was spent in capital expenditures (CAPEX) in the Canadian...
Etam: If China is Picking Our Politicians can We at Least get Them to Teach Us About Industrial Policy?
There is something really crappy and dumb going on with Canadian industrial policy. Maybe you’ve figured it out. I sure haven’t. In the spirit of “the more minds working on it the better”, here are some low-lights to get everyone’s brains working on it before...
Healthcare and The Definition of Insanity
What’s wrong with Canada’s healthcare system? Dysfunctional systems, wait lists, not enough doctors, and not enough beds. Those are just the obvious ‘starters’ in a long list of problems that are keeping Canadians from accessing medical care. Tossing more money at the...
Featured News
Manitoba Crown Corporation Proposal for Rural and Remote Internet Provision: Unnecessary and Harmful
The New Democratic Party, the Opposition in the Manitoba legislature, has proposed the creation of a new Crown corporation to provide high-speed internet service to rural and remote communities, particularly First Nations communities, in that province. This idea is...
Two Pandemics Are Scarier Than One
This week marked the anniversary of the COVID-19 confinements that were only supposed to last for a few weeks. That was 52 weeks ago. In many ways, fear became the pandemic. Different people drive the COVID-19 fear, but its principal generators are statisticians and...
Sexual Exploitation by WHO in the Congo
The second-largest Ebola outbreak in history is over, but the sexual misconduct investigations regarding WHO’s aid workers in the Congo has just begun. The Congolese Ebola outbreak started in 2018 and was declared over on June 25, 2020. It had 3481 cases, 2299...
Time to End the Panic-Driven COVID-19 Regime
Seven months since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, against evidence and common sense, media, elected officials, and health experts continue peddling the panic that gripped them in March. Almost daily, headlines in the first week of October announced new records in...
Star Trek Becomes Real
No one ever took President Trump for Star Trek’s Captain Picard. Nevertheless, his creation of the U.S. Space Force in December of 2019 resembled the latter’s powerful command, “Engage!” The space race is on, but what most people would find surprising is how far along...
Alberta’s Rising Crime Begs More Policing, Not Less
The year is not yet over, and Calgary has already recorded 26 homicides, six more than in 2019. Edmonton has witnessed a 90 percent spike in assaults with weapons or causing bodily harm. Unbelievably, rather than tackling this escalating violence head-on, officials...
There Really are Limits to Growth: Canadians’ Orthodox Assumptions are Flat-Out Wrong
Two centuries ago, clergyman Thomas Malthus expounded the proposition that population always outruns food supply. He said population increases geometrically while food supply increases, at best, only arithmetically. Half a century ago the Green Revolution, enabling...
All the Ways We Could Pay; For COVID, the Recession, and Everything Else
Lately, ordinary citizens, voters and taxpayers are beginning to worry about something that usually only ‘dismal scientists’, i.e., economists, care about: our alarming federal and provincial deficits and exploding national debt. While putting an economy into...
Despite Surges, Rural Death Rates Remain far Lower
There have been reports of rising COVID-19 infection rates in rural areas and even “surges,” such as here and here. Many of these reports fail to note the most important statistic of all with respect to rural areas --- that, even with the recent increases and surges,...
Four More Years of Trump?
Most Canadians are amazed that so many of our American neighbors even want Trump as their president. Since his election in 2016, the Canadian media and most of the American media have been unrelenting in their disparagement of the man. He has been portrayed as...
Rewriting Canada’s Citizenship Oath to “Recognize Indigenous Peoples” is Wrong and Harmful
On October 23rd, 2020, Immigration Minister announced that the Liberal government will soon introduce a bill to alter the Oath of Citizenship making it “more inclusive,” and the minister says that “this bill will serve as “one more vital bill step towards...