As we enter the year 2022, most Canadians will have lived their entire lives under the shibboleth that says we have the best health-care system in the world. Our beloved medicare is universal in scope, free of charge and offers equal access to all. What country could...
The end of the year features a variety of excesses: people eat too much yummy food, drink too many intoxicating beverages, engage in unseemly displays of lawn, home, and garden kitsch, and in general, try to relax and celebrate the end of a tough year and the promise...
Calgary has sworn in its first female mayor. A week earlier, less than 24 hours after winning the mayoral race, she gave her first post-election talk-radio interview to Ryan Jespersen, mostly involving a series of softball questions. He asked her the obligatory woke...
The hasty, defeatist and craven withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan in August has compelled the so-called “civilized” Western nations and their leaders to confront the failures and errors of the past 20 years, which resemble those of earlier conflicts....
If the COVID crisis takes most of the media coverage, environmental claims remain. Friday for Future, the movement launched by Greta Thunberg, has come back to protest the federal government's inaction on earlier green promises such as curbing greenhouse gas...
Canadians are watching protests on American streets that stem in part from their history of slavery. That “original sin” dogs America, and tears at its soul. But Canada, too, has an “original sin”. And that is our history with Indigenous people. It is not that it...
While the Prime Minister is a sincere man who honestly believes that he is doing the right thing by introducing legislation that will permanently entrench the system of indigenous separateness that the chiefs are insistent on both maintaining and expanding. He has...
By: Peter Menzies June 4, 2018 The CRTC, through the recommendations in its Harnessing Change report released last Thursday, has risked setting back communications regulation by at least a decade and likely made an error in approach that will define...
The legacy of Pierre Elliott Trudeau is a controversial one. Some of us who lived through his years of leadership worship the man--others still despise him for The National Energy Program and The War Measures Act. Nevertheless, every Canadian knows his name. His is...
Currently, Export Development Corporation (EDC) is unable to convert its reported profits into cash, posing an increasing risk to Canadian taxpayers. Moreover, EDC has been funding ventures that are normally considered too risky for commercial banks to handle. EDC is...
What really happened in the '60s Scoop Allan Higgs, former social workers, writes: "Yes, I scooped children. Here is why." The “’60s scoop” was a figment of a B.C. reporter’s imagination, used to underscore problems relating to child neglect in First Nations...
Many opponents of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion justify their opposition by citing concerns about climate change and carbon emissions, but this raises some important questions. What about coal? Vancouver is North America's largest exporter of coal, one-third...
Indigenous people today seem to think that their rights are absolute or act as if their rights trump everything else. This attitude was seen clearly in a reaction from the Saskatchewan-based Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) after the Saskatchewan...
The string of calls for public apologies continues unabated. Yet again, demands have been made that Pope Francis apologize for the role that the Catholic Church played in the Indian Residential School system. His refusal to do so has outraged native leaders....
Bill C-69, the new proposed federal legislation deals with environmental assessment changes. It requires that “traditional knowledge of the Indigenous peoples of Canada” must be considered when assessing projects. In effect, this legislation will place “traditional...