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A ‘Reality Check’ on Charges of Racial Discrimination in Canada and the US
In both Canada and the United States the theory that institutions are rigged against visible minorities in favor of the white population isn’t supported by data
Malicious Stalking as a Literary Device
Airport bookstores are often filled with customers, and surely some buy. I don’t. I just like to see what books among many millions of possible candidates land in such prime real estate. As a publisher, I’m aware of the herculean efforts, vast resources, and network...
Neither Safe Nor Effective
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Policy Restrictions have Caused the Housing Crisis
The choice we face is clear: a modest expansion of greenfield development or greater housing poverty For 18 years, I have been monitoring international housing affordability, as author or co-author of the Demographia Housing Affordability series. The latest...
Leaders on the Frontier | So Much More We Can Be with the Hon. Grant Devine, Premier of Saskatchewan 1982-1991
The April 1982 Saskatchewan election proved to be a major turning point in the province's history. Over its nine years in office, the Devine government commenced and completed numerous policy initiatives in spite of considerable challenges including two recessions. ...
Peckford: Stopping the Four Orwellian Horsemen —Big Government, Big Press, Big Pharma and Big Tech
Unrealistic—Salim Mansur Essay On Constitutional Change entitled ‘Canada is constitutionally broken, and by the will of the people it can be fixed.’ I appreciate Professor Salim Mansur’s essay concerning Constitutional Change. Unlike many academics today he is...
Leaders on the Frontier: Chinese Interference?
Recent headlines have alleged Chinese interference in Canadians elections but what do the reports actually say? How does this all connect to the mysterious police stations that have connections to the CCP, and the balloons that were shot down by NORAD? On this...
Jordan Peterson: National Citizens Inquiry – Truro Hearing
Canadian psychologist, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson who is also an author, online educator, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto spoke out today about the Canadian response to COVID-19. Dr. Peterson's prerecorded testimony was directed to the...
What Opportunities Will Be Forbidden to Your Children?
f you are a parent, you grew up in a “benighted” period when people were assessed and given opportunities on the basis of merit consisting of achievements such as grades, test scores, prizes, etc. That archaic period is now over. People today are assessed according to...
Peckford: The Central, Federal Nanny State In Full Bloom
I had no sooner warned of the now settled extra federal influence over health care, an exclusive provincial jurisdiction constitutionally, than the federal minister fines the provinces for violating the Canada Health Act, validating my point! Here is the news report...
3 Years Ago this Week, the World Ended
By: Jeffrey A Tucker For two months before lockdowns came to the United States, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was broadcasting the lie that its Wuhan lockdowns killed the virus. Control the people, they said, lock them up, prohibit all human movement, and do it...
The Emergencies Act Report Threatens Life and Liberty
Rouleau followed the Chief Justice as Champion of the Overdog The most alarming aspect of Justice Paul Rouleau’s finding that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act was justified is that the Laurentian elite owns the justice system....
Peckford: A New Emergencies Act for Canada – An Open Letter to Our Federal Parliamentary Leaders. The People Must Be in Charge.
It must be clear to all serious political leaders in Canada today that the Emergencies Act has not worked. The main reason for that, I submit, is that it was poorly constructed in the first place. Parliament made a grave error when it allowed the Government of the day...
The Strange Conclusions of Justice Paul Rouleau
Justice Paul Rouleau released his Report on February 17, and “concluded that the very high level threshold required for the invocation of the (Emergencies) Act was met.” He insists “cabinet had reasonable grounds to believe there existed a national emergency arising...