“Last winter’s heating bills were unsustainable” – buddy, do I have bad news for you Wow, what time is it? Is it May? There are a million funny things to talk about, a million laughs to be had, a lot of phenomenal progress being made on numerous fronts, things that do...
For months, a key piece of data had eluded Steve Kirsch, executive director of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation. “I’ve been asking everyone: Show me the all-cause mortality data proving the vaccines are safe.” On May 5, he wrote on Substack that he finally had...
A question investment managers and individual investors often (or should) ask themselves: “If I didn’t already own this stock, would I buy it today?” By any criteria, Via Rail, a Crown corporation owned by the federal government, is not a good investment - even under...
Imagination is Everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions – Albert Einstein A hallmark of Albert Einstein’s career was his use of thought experiments or “Gedankenexperiment” as a fundamental tool for understanding physical issues and for elucidating...
If the USA's current electoral situation is still in turmoil, the Biden presidency seems to act. With the return of the democrats at the White House, there will be changes in the US foreign policy. Canada, as the third US trade partner, will be impacted. The Trump...
Today Canadians coast to coast are left shocked, disappointed, and ashamed of their federal police service. The RCMP has had a history of problems going back decades, and now there are at least 2,300 women, so far, who have been betrayed, abused, and victimized, not...
Spring has finally arrived on campus, and graduation exercises are in full swing. It is a wonderful time with students dressed in black caps and gowns and their parents dressed in formal attire. Everyone is smiling as the graduates mount the stage to receive their...
A main priority of Alberta’s United Conservative government, given the province’s relatively high unemployment rate over the past few years, is job creation. It’s right there in the Alberta Premier's two-line Twitter biography: “Premier of Alberta. Focused on getting...
In 1970, Pierre Eliot Trudeau’s administration decided to cut diplomatic ties with one government claiming to rule China and to recognize another. Out went our acceptance of a long-time ally, the quasi-democratic Republic of China, based on the island of Taiwan, and...
The Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, will soon issue his own program for dealing with ‘Climate Change’ and its consequences. The earth appears to be warming; how much or how fast or whether it is human-caused is for another debate. The current regime in...
The controversy concerning what is called “cultural appropriation” has taken a strange new twist. Although past complaints about this newly invented crime have typically involved Indigenous artists or writers complaining that a non-Indigenous person has appropriated...
The Liberal government of Canada has formulated a new program to which all universities are expected to commit. It is called “Dimensions: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.” A “Charter” for “Dimensions” has been distributed to all university presidents, who are urged...
It is not hard to find opinions on “climate change”. Not so long ago, what is now called “climate change” was addressed as “global warming”, a designation fell out of favour when too many cold weather records were broken. Radio, television, the printed media and...
This week we commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the courage and sacrifice of thousands of soldiers, sailors and airmen on the beaches and in the fields and woods of Normandy, France on June 6th, 1944. Fourteen thousand Canadian service members participated...
In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, thousands of Canadians approached the coast of France intending to attack the occupying German army and bring an end to the Nazi hold on Europe, one of the most hideous regimes in human history. They were part of Operation...