This Saskatchewan teacher’s strike is about something no one wants to say openly
Commentary
Canada’s Productivity Problems Are Deeply Rooted
Canada’s relatively weak productivity is one of the most discussed but least resolved economic problems confronting Canadians. The problem is often attributed to inadequate investment, insufficient competition, internal trade barriers and many other possibilities. The...
Why the Right is Eating the Left’s Lunch
Progressives have abandoned the working class and embraced the oligarchs.
School Trustee Suspensions Happening Far Too Often
It was just a few short years ago that the Pallister government introduced Bill 64. Among other things, Bill 64 would have abolished school boards and replaced elected trustees with provincial appointees. The reaction was fast and furious. The Manitoba School Board...
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International Corporate Tax-Rate Fixing Will Bind Canada, Limit Choices and Harm Growth
The finance ministers of over 130 nations and territories have arrived at a tentative agreement that will create a tax floor—a minimum corporate tax rate of a proposed 15 per cent. Its proponents, including Ottawa, sadly, claim it will create a “level playing field”...
Ontario Vaccine Mandate Does not Address Concerns of Human Safety
Starting September 7th, 2021, the Ontario government required all workers in high-risk settings to either take the COVID-19 vaccine, provide a medical reason for refusing vaccination or undergo regular testing and education. This includes workers in healthcare,...
Bill 35 Doesn’t Go Far Enough
In a recent op-ed (Winnipeg Free Press, May 2, A7), my colleague from the Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba, John Wiens, argued that Bill 35, The Education Administration Amendment Act, goes too far. He claims that “it begins to look like just one...
A Call for Fiscal Sanity
After more than two weeks of shutting down virtually all federal government services, 120,000 of the picketing workers returned to work just recently. The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) walkout had been brewing since last fall, when PSAC president Chris...
Green Kills
A friend of mine is building four high-rise condo and rental towers in Victoria, the capital city of British Columbia, where I live. It is a charming city, founded in the 1840s, its core an almost classic English village around which a modern city was slowly...
A Dictated Media Message Fosters Dictatorship
What happens when our public institutions decide what “truth” you will see and hear, to the exclusion of all others? The pandemic has already told us. “If you don’t get it, you don’t get it,” ran a long-running ad tagline for the Washington Post, not unlike its...
Etam: Net Zero 2050?
Serious goal-setting seems like a very good way to torment oneself, creating a new reason out of thin air. My New Year’s resolution is to avoid setting goals. Type A is not my type. But maybe it’s time to turn over a new leaf. I’ve decided I don’t want to be a...
Alberta Election Will Impact Schools in a Big Way
This election will have a big impact on the type of learning that happens in schools.
EV Battery Plant Subsidies Better Spent Elsewhere
Big handouts to buy votes
Government’s Attempt to Erase Canada’s Past Follows the Path of French Revolution, Communist Regimes
A person without roots, without a memory, without a story can be easily influenced and cause no trouble to the authorities. A nation without a common history in which citizens can take pride cannot long survive.
Conrad Black: Margaret Thatcher Didn’t Heed My Warning
“That’s the problem, Prime Minister, they are cowards. Cowards are capable of any treachery.’