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...
Commentary
North Americans Are Divided by Ideology, Not Race
People would be wise to think more critically about alleged racial conflicts in the United States and Canada. In the summer of 2019, New York Times journalists led by Nikole Hannah-Jones launched the “1619 Project.” Its purpose was to revise history by placing the...
10 Years Ago: Winnipeg’s Libertarian Socialist: Nick Ternette RIP
As the so-called culture wars continue to engulf Canadian politics, it is interesting to see how far the political left has changed over the past decade. Today’s left is deeply obsessed with woke, top-down identity politics, cancel culture, censoring speech, climate...
US Dollar and Debt: Not Yet In Crisis, But Troubling
Recent anguish over raising the United States Congress’s wholly arbitrary debt ceiling by summertime, to avoid forced budget cutting, obscures a number of issues. In all likelihood, the debt ceiling will be raised and the military, pensioners and other core U.S....
Featured News
The Toronto Mass Murderer—Here is Someone who Should be Cancelled!
A judge found the man who drove a rented van down Toronto’s sidewalks, trying to kill as many people as he could, guilty of murdering ten and attempting to kill sixteen more. The judge also took the extraordinary decision to refer to him as “John Doe,” denying him any...
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) Will Not Help the Economic Recovery
Public debt is not a problem; it is the big idea behind modern monetary theory (MMT). The current economic crisis has allowed MMT to gain influence among the political class. Among the people who developed President Joe Biden’s economic program is Stephanie Kelton....
Why Do We Remember?
Ever since 1931, Canadians have paused on November 11 to mark Remembrance Day, a commemoration of those who have died serving in our country’s wars. (From 1919 to 1930 the observance was called Armistice Day and held on the Sunday nearest November 11.) Men and women...
The Nuclear Industry Could be a Real Asset for Alberta
If the COVID crisis takes most of the media coverage, environmental claims remain. Friday for Future, the movement launched by Greta Thunberg, has come back to protest the federal government's inaction on earlier green promises such as curbing greenhouse gas...
Time to Abolish Indian Act
Canadians are watching protests on American streets that stem in part from their history of slavery. That “original sin” dogs America, and tears at its soul. But Canada, too, has an “original sin”. And that is our history with Indigenous people. It is not that it...
Hydroxychloroquine is Widely Used Around the Globe
Death rates in countries that rely on hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for the treatment of Covid-19 appear to be dramatically lower than death rates in countries that discourage the use of the drug. A new study claims that the death rate in the countries that used HCQ early...
Canadian RF and EMR Standards
The word “radiation” conjures up images of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima or the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Our society has a strong, and not unreasonable, fear of nuclear radiation, that has been built up over years of stories. Starting with...
Policing: Walking in Another’s Shoes
There has been tremendous scrutiny and criticism of policing in recent months. Policing has been the lightning rod for widespread protests, a window into the failings of systemic processes and structures that have sustained otherization and marginalization, and...
Rosa Parks and The BIPOC Café
If you wonder how the social justice war is going, look no further than the University of Michigan-Dearborn. There, in the “diversity, equity and inclusion” activism that has all but replaced education in too many of our institutions of higher learning, the...
Homeschooling is an Option
Many parents are frustrated by the limited educational choices their children have right now. For example, a recent article in the Calgary Herald (Ferguson, “Parents regretting in-person classes with no options to go online”), suggests that parents are concerned...
Your Life under the Green New Deal
During the cantankerous September 29 presidential “debate,” candidate Joe Biden proclaimed “I am the Democratic Party.” He is in charge, he insisted, and his views will be Democrat policy. Others aren’t so sure – about that, about what his views actually are, or about...