“Ahead, Thar Be Dragons.” The world of 2023 is a scary place. One major war is raging, with others probably on the way. The Pax Americana that has given us freedom of the seas and allowed global trade to flourish might be breaking down. International piracy,...
Commentary
World Cries out for Canadian LNG, “No Business Case” Feds have Totally Failed Us
Today, Canada’s natural gas sector is seeing its decade of darkness due to federal policy. And it’s not because the opportunity wasn’t there. It was because our government allowed its ideology, and that of its anti-oil and gas friends (also known as protestors) to...
Japanese Scientists Raise Alarms on COVID-19 Vaccination Side Effects
In recent months, Japanese researchers have called out adverse consequences from COVID-19 vaccinations, but their testimony has gained more traction online than in mainstream media. In one video report, Hiroshima University School of Medicine Prof. Masataka Nagao...
The “Just Transition” risks being deadly to the West
The “Just Transition” legislation that Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh want to introduce represents terrible news for hydrocarbon energy producers and workers in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The “People-Centred Just Transition” federal proposal sends up red flags from...
Featured News
The Danger of State Ownership: Alberta’s Billion Dollar Keystone Express Blunder
The long-suffering citizens of Alberta recently learned that they are on the hook for yet more billions of dollars via an ill-advised “investment” in an oil pipeline that was veritably festooned with red flags prior to the injection of hard-earned and now lost...
Troubling Trends for Human Rights and Civil Liberties in China and India
December 9 marked the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime. December 9, 2020 also marked the 72nd anniversary of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of...
Mandatory Vaccine Bill is Off-Target
New Brunswick’s failed attempt to remove vaccine exemptions sparked a political, ethical, and constitutional controversy. The benefits of the bill were marginal at best, but the heavy-handed tactics governments attempted to use to implement it were even worse. It was...
Indigenous Communities need to be Partners in Canada’s COVID-19 Recovery Plan
It’s easy to forget that at the beginning of the year, Canada was right in the middle of another crisis triggered by a series of protests over a natural gas pipeline being built through northern B.C. The issue of Indigenous reconciliation was front and centre in our...
Systemic Racism
The current Prime Minister recently publicly contradicted RCMP Commissioner, Brenda Lucki, for saying there is no systemic racism within the RCMP. Actually, Lucki said she didn’t know what “systemic racism” is. In her words, “I have to admit, I really struggle with...
School Should be as Normal as Possible this Fall
On Aug.1, the provincial government will announce its back-to-school plan for the fall. It is likely that K-12 classes will be in-person rather than online. Good thing too. It’s one thing for university students to take courses online. All professors have to do is to...
Luddites Stand in the Way of 5G Prosperity: Fears Overblown, Ignore Benefits of Communications Connectivity
Despite concerns ranging from health risks to espionage, the fifth-generation technology for mobile connectivity (5G) has prompted a global adoption race—and there is no going back. Contrary to conspiracy theories, it is a necessary and positive step toward a fully...
If you Love Anti-American Riots, Thank our Universities
Rioters who hate America are not an accident; they are the fruition of decades of ideological indoctrination at our universities. While Marxism was increasingly repudiated around the world by countries that had suffered and failed under communist rule, professors in...
Post-COVID Aspects of Canadian Culture and its Influence on Government Behaviour
The last few weeks exposed schizophrenic aspects of Canadian culture and their influence on governments’ behaviour. The most palpable example lies in how we trampled, in fear, over memory and institutions, obsessively protective and morally dismissive of dignity and...
Taking the Knee
Lack of understanding of the hidden police culture will, once again, only result in superficial changes, all the while the festering cinders remaining to reignite another bonfire. Despite the promises made during the past decade, particularly with the adoption and...
Do we want Canadian Governments to Collect Data Based on Race?
In a famous 60 Minutes interview, Mike Wallace asks Morgan Freeman how to get rid of racism. Freeman instantly responds by saying that it’s easy: stop referring to him as a Black man and he will stop referring to Wallace as a White man. Freeman says only by removing...