Inflation and supply chain issues are greatly stressing the country’s producing class The other week, I visited my mom in Saskatchewan, in a little town up in what is called the province’s northeast but really isn’t. It is the parkland border between farms and...
Culture Wars
Parents Versus the Mouse
To be “woke” is to have the approved left-leaning opinions about race, the ecology, and all manner of social-justice issues. Since 2018, the maxim “go woke, go broke” has declared that corporations that go out of their way to be “progressive” suffer financially when...
Victimhood Sells – South Africa’s TRC
The Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission was styled after the South African Commission which was the first commission ever established to sort through claims and counter-claims in an attempt to get at the Truth. The South African TRC was established in 1996 by...
Conrad Black: No Exaggeration Needed
Once again we are indebted to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy and retired judge Brian Giesbrecht for their diligent research that has unearthed the proportions of some of the embellished claims about Canada’s past treatment of its Indigenous population and...
Featured News
The Compelling Case for Selling Canada’s Water to the U.S.
Canada exports huge quantities of water to the United States and all over the world. As the world’s fifth largest exporter of agricultural products – which are composed mainly of water – huge amounts of Canadian water leave the country every day. Whole lakes are...
Rapidly Evolving Energy Innovation Makes Eco-Extremists’ Apocalyptic Predictions Suspect
A recent Globe and Mail story about a firm developing garbage-to-biodiesel technology shows how continuing progress makes the global warming extremists’ most hysterically apocalyptic predictions, and their extreme absolutist ‘solutions’, not only grossly wrong but...
A Policy Roadmap for Solutions to Suicide Among Young Women of South Asian Origin
Recently, I attended a memorial service for a 21-year-old South Asian woman who had committed suicide. A note addressed to her parents said, “I am unable to please you and be the kind of daughter you want me to be.” I left the memorial service determined to examine...
Hate is Evil
It is not Islam that led to 9-11, it was evil people and they come from all religions and secular society.
Respecting Privacy and Commmon Sense
There is a serious policy vacuumn in the handling of files during transitions from one exiting MP to one entering office.
Why The West Is Different: Nature and immigration shaped the West
The West isn’t anything like central Canada—and there are understandable reasons as to why.
What Islamists, Greens and Oil Exploration Have in Common: Natural Limits: Life is about accepting imperfection
Humanity’s ability to create perfect world has limits.
A Day in the Intellectual Glare of Hitchens
Contrarian opines on religion to his crowd of followers