The debate over parental rights has become a flashpoint in the upcoming Manitoba provincial election. The Progressive Conservatives are promising to strengthen parental rights while the Liberals and NDP have both denounced this pledge as a “dog whistle” to bigots. One...
Commentary
America’s Future: Republic, Democracy, Or Police State?
Throughout history, admirers of America have viewed the Republic as a beacon of liberty and a laboratory of democracy. In the early decades of the 19th century, French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville had high praise for “Democracy in America.” After...
A Commentary On The Restoule Case As It Comes Before The Supreme Court Of Canada
On November 7th and 8th , 2023, several important legal and fiscal issues will be argued before the Supreme Court of Canada in the Crown-Indigenous rights case: Restoule vs. Ontario and Canada. The main issue is whether the 19 th century treaties that Great Britain...
Carbon Sequestration Among A Plethora Of Carbon Delusions
A recent report sponsored by an environmental advocacy group and think tank, the International Institute for Sustainable Development, examined Carbon Capture and Storage, ‘CCS’, also called Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage, ‘CCUS’. One of the three authors,...
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Truth is the Road to Reconciliation
Canada has consistently failed to make progress that is commensurate with so many lofty pronouncements and expectations on the Indigenous file. By statistics alone, it is a national shame that most Indigenous Canadians on reservations live far below acceptable...
The CIA’s Media Assets
Four years after he broke the Watergate story, Carl Bernstein quit the Washington Post and spent six months looking at the relationship between the CIA and the press. The result was a 25,000-word cover story in the October 20, 1977 edition of Rolling Stone called “The...
When an Emergency is Not an Emergency
There were many arguments used in the past week to justify calls for the use of the Emergencies Act. In order to bolster the claim that the traffic jam in downtown Ottawa constituted a threat to national security, Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair insisted...
Trudeau Commits Brand Suicide
Just the week before, when he invoked the Emergencies Act to deal with what was essentially a local police matter, Justin Trudeau was being compared to brutal dictators, like Xi Jinping. But now, after effectively saying “Just fooling” and revoking the same...
Vaccine Autonomy
As we enter the third year of a global pandemic, it is glaringly obvious that Canadians are divided into two camps – those who are vaccinated and those who aren’t. Those who are vaccinated can keep their jobs, go to restaurants, work out at the gym, go to movies,...
Canadians are Fed Up
Well. Apparently, Canadians do have a limit to the amount of unnecessary discomfort and ineffectual leadership that they will suffer. Polls, demonstrations and a convoy of truckers entrenched in downtown Ottawa all provide sufficient evidence to show that Canadians....
Handwriting Remains a Useful Skill
“Sign here please.” Anyone who has ever accepted a UPS delivery, signed a permission slip for a school field trip, or filled out a legal document has likely seen this phrase. Although it takes only a few seconds to sign a document, our handwritten signature means that...
Canada’s Been Destroying Itself Since The Constitution Act of 1982 – Is This The Last Chapter ?
The ink was hardly dry on the Patriation Agreement of 1981, which became the Constitution Act of 1982, and the destruction began. Elements, for their own reasons, began to twist and misrepresent how the deal came together. There were mysterious kitchen notes by some...
Pandemic Power Play
In 1933, the Nazi Party held a thin grasp upon power in Germany. Although narrowly elected, it held majority through its coalition partner, the German National People’s Party. Does this sound eerily familiar? They were nonetheless able to enact the “Law to Remedy...
Two Fools On The Hill
The discussions held by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Premiers leading up to the imposition of The Emergencies Act will not be made public, but the results are obvious : All Premiers except one, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, told Trudeau not to do it. I’m sure...
Canada: Suburbs Dominate Growth – 2021 Census
Canada has released early results of the 2021 Census, with a detailed analysis of growth in Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs). Among the 41 metropolitan areas, 77% of the population growth between the 2016 and 2021 censuses was in the suburbs, with 23% in the urban...