Hospitals are experiencing an influx of young children with serious respiratory illnesses. Out of concern for their wellbeing, some health professionals are pushing to bring back mask mandates for schools. In other words, students would be required, once again, to...
Commentary
Etam: Wealthy Californians “Just Stop Oil” Campaign – Popular in Europe; has Anyone asked, say, Bangladesh?
“Kindly let me help you or you will drown said the monkey putting the fish safely up a tree.” – Alan Watts That’s a quasi-parable about how ignorance can maim helpfulness, turning well-being into harm, through pure innocence. But…that parable assumes the...
Net Zero Carbon Means Near Zero Saskatchewan Industry
The problem with the path to net zero carbon emissions is its accompanying net zero environmental benefits and its net zero improvement in our standard of living. Net zero is an anti-human hellbent path to scarcity that threatens wealth creation, leaving all but a few...
Finally—Stefanson Needs to Think Big on Hudson Bay Opportunities
Manitoba premier Heather Stefanson finally voiced support for more energy exports out of Hudson Bay. That is very good news because the potential is real and the reasons to refuse are illusory. “We are looking at liquefied natural gas, primarily,” Stefanson told...
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Mr. Premier, Think Beyond the Pandemic to the Province’s Future Prosperity
The Nova Scotia Liberal Party has chosen a new leader and it is important to think about the policy priorities of the province’s incoming premier. Although an election does not need to be held until spring of 2022 (Nova Scotia is the only province without a fixed...
Using COVID-19 to Advance Radical, Partisan and Racist Policies
In his first days in office, President Joe Biden rescinded a Trump-era order that restricted the federal government’s use of diversity training to examine issues around race and gender bias and systemic racism. In doing so, he will be advancing radical and divisive...
Congestion and User Fees, Someone will Ultimately Pay
Recently, the US state of Oregon has become the latest devotee of a variation of congestion charging; a sort of tax on road use, that is more commonly directed at motorists and commercial vehicle drivers who access the central area of a city, presumably adding to...
Can the Integrity of our Colleges Be Restored?
Half a century ago, our colleges and universities were liberal in their orientations and policies. Generally, they treated students and staff as individuals who were judged by their academic achievements and potentials. (Where they existed, the exceptions were...
Dependence on any one Foreign Nation is Unhealthy; in the case of China, all too Literally So
Of late, it has been remarked that most of the active ingredients for key pharmaceuticals in North America come from abroad - usually from China; in the case of generics, often from India. In turn, India often imports its key ingredients from China. So, diverting...
A less Naïve Canada on Foreign Policy?
Pope Francis gave a speech recently in which he praised attachment to one’s own culture and place, criticizing global capitalism with its “consumerist vision of human beings” for its “levelling effect on cultures, diminishing the immense variety which is the heritage...
A Proposed Framework for Confronting Future Pandemics, or National Emergencies
As most of the nations of the developed world, including Canada, failed to prepare adequately for the current deadly COVID-19 pandemic, questions remain about what steps should be taken to forestall, or substantially mitigate the next microbial conflagration. While...
The Marxists are Winning the Education War
For the last 60 years or so, a raging storm of controversy has hung over public education in Canada. It has also pitted some educators, often called “traditionalists,” against others, often called “progressives,” and it has been affecting the way children are educated...
Obliterating History a very bad Idea
Winnipeg’s Mayor is determined to pursue his name game; renaming, removing, and rewriting history. Among his targets is Bishop Grandin Boulevard - the Mayor doesn’t like Bishop Grandin’s attitudes. If he succeeds, the next logical renaming would be St. Vital - also...
Five ways the Surveillance State is in Hyperdrive
Pandemic Gives Government Perfect Excuse to Monitor Citizens Crises are the perfect breeding ground for authoritarians and social engineers. The extreme measures governments have rolled out to contain the COVID-19 pandemic remind us that fear often trumps any...
Contextualizing the Cost of COVID: Will Canada Ever pay it Off?
It has become routine, every morning around 11:15 a.m. EDT thousands of Canadians gather around their television sets to hear the daily national briefing. Closely watching as our national leaders soberly descends down the stairs and step up to the microphone. Citizens...