Children are at the forefront of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to grow its national economy, expand its global influence and build the strongest Army. Last year, U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe revealed in a Wall Street Journal...
In the Alberta Health Services v. Artur Pawlowski and Dawid Pawlowski decision last September, a Court of Queen’s Bench justice found the two brothers in contempt of court. The Pawlowski brothers openly challenged health ordinances and court orders and did not deny...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership was one of the world’s most ambitious trade deals. The agreement between Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and the United States was signed on February 4, 2016. Its goal was...
A long-standing mate stopped me in the street last week. He asked me if I was livid about property rights. I was bemused, I had to ask him what he had in mind. What he had in mind was the joint National and Labour Parties’ statement on housing. People will be able to...
We have not reached the technological point where we can expect to see driverless vehicles plying our roadways, yet. However, as a recent incident on the QE2 highway in Alberta has demonstrated, we might be edging closer than some of us might have thought. How close...
The scenes of lawlessness we see in cities like Portland, Oregon that have been playing out on our screens since the death of George Floyd appear to show creeping anarchy as we approach the November election. It appears that the rule of law has broken down. We do not...
We will begin today’s article with a quiz. So, pencils out please, and answer the following question: what famous personality was described by an unadmiring biographer as “a thieving, fanatical Albanian dwarf”? I’ll give you the answer in a paragraph or two as we...
Senator Lynn Beyak has been expelled from caucus by the Conservative Party. The reasons for her removal were that “she allowed” racist posts to be placed on her website and refused to remove them when ordered to do so. In fact, I am one of the people quoted on her...
Ingenuity and efficiency are reducing links between economic growth and energy consumption In recent years, particularly in Canada, we have seen substantial a change in public opinion regarding the production and distribution of energy, as well as its associated costs...
It is quite distressing to hear that Indigenous activist Harrison Thunderchild of Thunderchild First Nation in Saskatchewan has launched a court application with the Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench to demand transparency from his own First Nation’s leaders....
Statistics Canada has just released the employment access data out of the 2016 Census, based on the main mode of commuting. Generally, there is little change between the modes, as Figure 1 indicates, compared to the 2011 Census results. (See: New Data on Commuting in...
Far from being a threat, coal continues to bring health, welfare and prosperity to billions At the recent Environmental Protection Agency public hearing in Charleston, West Virginia, on withdrawing the “Clean Power Plan,” anti-coal activists were out in force: the...
The federal government has announced that it will compensate people who lost their jobs or were otherwise persecuted a generation ago simply because their sexual orientation did not fit the accepted norm of the day. This perfectly reflects modern thinking, and the...
First Nation leaders need to move beyond victimhood to resolve problems The ’60s Scoop was back in the news this month, and I expect we will hear more about it in the coming years. In fact, I am guessing there are plans in place to make it the subject of the next...
The past decade has seen a gusher of books arguing for and detailing the supposed ascendency of dense urban cores, like the inimitable Edward Glaeser’s influential Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and...