'They justify their existence by dreaming up new processes and systems that have nothing to do with patient care but that significantly adds to our workload' Judging from the amount of mail I received from front-line health-care workers following my weekend...
In November 2021, B.C. suffered the wrath of a Pineapple Express. Extreme rain from an atmospheric river dumped a month’s worth of rain within a few days causing rivers to overflow, farmlands to flood, and mudslides that wiped out nearly all major highways connecting...
It’s come to my attention that I’m having the same conversation over and over again, and only recently have I figured out why. In almost every conversation of consequence I’ve taken part in recently seems to have a common thread. My wife and her co-worker were talking...
A few weeks ago, there was a violent First Nations-Climate Extremist attack on a natural gas pipeline construction site, Coastal GasLink, in British Columbia. In a seemingly unrelated development, last year, German leaders decided to rapidly phase out nuclear energy...
Would you trust an election where no one counts the votes? Many jurisdictions in Canada, the United States, and eight other countries do just that and place full trust in computer systems they cannot scrutineer. Election officials parrot the claims of the voting...
Many people are bemoaning the loss of yet another large, independent Canadian company to a merger with an opportunistic acquirer. With the consequent loss of many executive and other head office jobs, the real tragedy is that too many Canadian companies have aimless,...
Every September 28th Canada celebrates British Home Child Day. Between one and two hundred thousand children were sent to Canada from England between 1869 and 1948 to be used as free farm and domestic labour. Some making the lonely voyage were orphans, but most were...
The pressing need to create an existential crisis on every topic has gripped both our media outlets and our social media sites. It has come to the point where serious words have been stripped of all meaning. Godwin’s Law appears to be the de facto method of debate. It...
It has come to this—Victoria wants to round up a posse of municipalities to sue oil companies for damages from climate change. Not only is such a case well-nigh impossible to prove, it is also full of rich ironies. Weather-related damages, termed “perils” in Canadian...
China’s dictatorship, once the favorite of Canada’s Prime Minister, has now become his biggest problem. When he first visited China as Prime Minister, the Chinese lauded him as the “Little Potato” (with his late father Pierre being the big one). The name may be apt. A...
The Law Society of Ontario is determined to compel all lawyers who wish to practise in that province to sign on to the Society’s version of a progressive agenda. The Society is also considering making it mandatory that lawyers attend sessions on such subjects as...
Ever since the oft-delayed rollout of legal recreational cannabis sales in Canada on October 17th, there have been problems across this vast and highly regulated land. The first is lack of product in nearly every province. The second is too few retail outlets for the...
The IPCC says it’s still possible to limit planetary warming to an additional 0.5 degrees C (0.9 F) “above pre-industrial levels” – but only if global CO2 emissions are halved by 2030 and zeroed out by 2050. So climate alarmists intend to carbon-tax, legislate and...
Respect for taxpayers in Alberta has been eroding for more than twenty years. Albertans don’t just see it on their tax bills – they can hear it when politicians talk. Indeed, the budget speeches delivered annually by the finance minister provide some of the best...