It started in Japan: the concept of de-coupling from China. The Japanese government offered its corporations billions of dollars to move manufacturing out of China, to safer more friendly locations. It then caught fire in the USA, initially under the Trump...
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Ottawa Physicist Claims COVID-19 Vaccine Claimed Over 10,000 Canadians
Did you hear on the news that 10,000 to 35,000 Canadians died of COVID-19 vaccines? The findings were among many bombshell claims by former University of Ottawa physicist Denis Rancourt. He told the National Citizens Inquiry on COVID-19 that excess mortality went up...
Solving the Global Housing Crisis
The worldwide lack of affordable housing can only be resolved politically. The global housing crisis across the high-income world, particularly in the Anglosphere, represents perhaps the single biggest challenge to the future of the middle class. From the...
Battered By A Fateful Realignment Of Values
Canadian school trustee is canceled for sharing traditional views
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How Safe are Prescription Drugs?
Can we trust our government and medical establishment? Not entirely. Some glimpses of Health Canada’s approach to prescription drug safety are less than assuring. Public policy should be guided towards more drug safety, not less. Health Canada was solely funded by...
Paths to Balancing Alberta’s Budget: Soaring Deficits Need Not be New Normal
Alberta’s debt has grown exponentially over the last decade, surging from under $10 billion in 2010 to $98 billion in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has set off a trap that earlier provincial administrations laid by their excessive reliance on fossil-fuel revenues. On...
Excessive Secrecy Regarding Dismissed Winnipeg Lab Scientists With Wuhan Connections
Do people bend over backward to hide things if they have nothing to hide? If the answer is no, Canadians have every reason to wonder why the government has gone to such great lengths to hide why two Chinese scientists were fired from a Winnipeg lab. For months,...
Copper is Signaling Expansion and Rising Inflation; Gold and Silver are Confirming Those Trends
The price of copper has long been a bellwether for economic conditions. The price is strongly correlated to economic activity, industrial production and economic growth in general. It is also highly correlated with the Canadian dollar and economy. The red metal’s...
Time to End Section 35?
Canada achieved it’s now-waning state of greatness through the application in its governance of over a century of classic liberal social, economic and political principles. Liberalism, (not to be confused with the illiberal dogmatism practised by the Liberal Party of...
Portland Police Service – Rapid Response Team: A Case for Service, Support, and Accountability
Recently, a grand jury indicted Corey Budworth, a member of the Portland Police Rapid Response Team (RRT), on one count of fourth-degree assault. The indictment stems from an incident on August 18, 2020, when the officer used his baton to push a woman to the ground...
Climate Pandering is Self-Defeating for Canadian Banks
Canada’s national policy to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 necessitates divesting from fossil fuels. There is just one problem: massive outstanding loans from banks to the oil and gas industries. The oil and gas sector makes up more than 10 per cent of the...
Manitoba Needs to Up its Mining Game
There is some good news for mining in Manitoba, but the province needs to reform its mining policies for the sector to thrive. Despite some progress over the years, this province still has a hostile climate for investment and this needs to change. Vale recently...
Why Child-Care Subsidies Will Not Stimulate the Economy
The federal government has spotted another pretext to increase its scope: subsidized child care. Despite knowing economic lockdowns have caused massive job losses, Ottawa officials argue that unaffordable child care impedes women from returning to the workforce....
Falling Immigration, a Troubling Signal
Manitoba shows no sign that its policies will be able to maintain the working population, while, over time, returning to annual balanced budgets and cutting taxes to keep the private sector that is here now. This dismal prediction is partially drawn by observing the...
International Traffic Congestion Extinguished by Pandemic and Remote Work
The 2020 TomTom Traffic Index reflects a huge drop in worldwide urban traffic congestion levels. Congestion levels (rated by the percentage of additional time required for auto travel during “rush hour”) dropped in 387 urban areas while increasing in only 13. Overall,...