Justice Paul Rouleau released his Report on February 17, and “concluded that the very high level threshold required for the invocation of the (Emergencies) Act was met.” He insists “cabinet had reasonable grounds to believe there existed a national emergency arising...
Commentary
Ottawa’s Provincial Health-Care Deal: What Kind of Fix?
The current Liberal government might achieve a windfall in popularity from concluding agreements on health care with each of the provinces. Perhaps the agreements will be used as the trigger for an early election. It is impossible to evaluate the deals without...
Bringing Back Grade 12 Exams Makes Sense
The Grade 12 provincial math and English exams are coming back to Manitoba. While they were suspended for several years during the COVID-19 pandemic, the province recently announced plans to reinstate them next year. Not everyone is happy to see these exams returning....
Ontario College of Teachers Undermines Its Own Credibility
The good news is that inflation appears to be slowing down. The bad news is that no one seems to have told the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT) since they plan to impose a 17.64 percent fee hike on all Ontario teachers this year. Unsurprisingly, teachers are not...
Featured News
Collaboration, a Plan, Funding, Transparency: Not in Canada
The Human Genome Project (HGP) stands as one of mankind’s most remarkable achievements; its significance is easily equal to, or even eclipses, Watson and Crick’s discovery of DNA’s helical structure or Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon. The goal was to...
Escalating Conflicts With Beijing Mean Accelerating Problems for Trade, Investment and Businesses
The vote by Canada’s Parliament to declare the actions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the region of Xinjiang a genocide against the local Uyghur people is the latest in a series of events that highlight the growing discordance between Western and allied...
An Inconvenient Truth
While activists and protesters celebrate the destruction of Sir John A. Macdonald’s statue in Montreal, they probably don’t want to be reminded that in neighbouring Ontario there stands another statue, one that has thus far escaped the wrath of Black and Indigenous...
We Need Intelligent Charity Policy
The WE Charity inspired the questions, but so many other charities should be affected by the answers. On August 6, the federal Finance Committee called employees of Charity Intelligence to the stand. Ninety minutes of testimony from CI managing director Kate Bahen and...
‘Social Justice’ is Extortion
The Mafia is not as good at extortion as “social justice” activists. Feminists and race activists have successfully invoked moralism to demand preferences, special benefits, and power. The legal cover for this extortion comes in the form of “affirmative action” and...
Rejecting “Coronapsychosis” Could be Good for our Health
Little Belarus has been in the news due to the political turmoil following its presidential election early last month. While it isn’t high in the consciousness of most people in Western countries, it is one of the last European nations led by the kind of old-fashioned...
Rightsizing Government After the COVID Debacle
We can reasonably expect the COVID-19 pandemic to be over sometime later next year. While Canada will have reported thousands of deaths, the dark total will be nowhere near the original projections (perhaps 10,000 instead of 350,000), and about 80% of those deaths...
First They Came for the Statues. Will Museums Be Next?
First the radicals came for the statues, and some have already been taken down. That was easy because the statues represented dead white men. Now the radicals are coming for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR). Will it, too, be knocked down? Before the long...
How the Mining Sector Thrived Amid COVID: Solid Financial Foundation is Role Model for Canada
Canadian mining companies have proved sustainable economic growth is compatible with the safe handling of a pandemic. Their financial acumen and business resilience show the rest of the country the way forward. A PwC report released in June 2020 demonstrates Canadian...
State-Run Child Care Expensive and Inferior
State-run child care advocates saw opportunity in the COVID-19 crisis. Working moms returned home to care for their children, some able to continue paid work from home, and others not. As a result, calls for universal child care grew louder than they had for 15 years....
An Energy Boost for the Canadian Economy: the Time is now to Encourage Production, not Dissuade It
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the short-sightedness of neglecting economic growth. Rather than harnessing the power of Canadian industries, the progressive elite has for years stoked fears and left the economy less prepared for crises. Canada’s energy sector is...