It’s a shift worth marking. New York Magazine is featuring an article called “COVID Lockdowns Were a Giant Experiment. It Was a Failure.” The authors are two excellent journalists, Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean, who have also written a new book called “The Big Fail,”...
Big Topics & Big Ideas
Big Topics & Big Ideas
Top left is the new maple leaf flag, next to the Red Ensign, with the Union Jack on the bottom right. In the bottom left corner is the original maple leaf flag proposed by Prime Minister Lester Pearson. Next is a revised version of the same flag, and the third is a...
A few weeks ago, Albertans voted to reduce the inequities in the federal equalization program. The deficit between the dollars that leave to and come back from Ottawa has recently been as high as $27 billion in one year. During times of crisis, it feels like salt in...
One of the most widespread economic myths is that inflation—the reduced purchasing power of a currency—is a win for a nation, a sign of a booming economy. For the privileged classes in government and with initial access to monetary expansion, it is a win. For everyone...
Testimony before the Public Order Emergency Commission reveals the case for government invoking the Emergencies Act is either weak or very weak. The Prime Minister was, in fact, opposed to members of his cabinet or senior public health officials meeting with protest...
I have launched a lawsuit with other Canadians that alleges that the Federal Government of Canada has violated our rights and freedoms under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms which is an integral part of the country’s Constitution Act 1982. I am the only living first...
Mark Mercer is a professor of philosophy at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, who has served as president of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship since 2015. SAFS is a Canadian organization whose members are devoted to “academic rigour, scholarly...
Canadians learned during the last years that they are completely and totally at the mercy of government officials and bureaucrats, no matter how ignorant or authoritarian they might be. These government figures demanded obedience of Canadians, or else. The “or else”...
A century ago, Adolf Hitler noted that ‘the receptivity of the masses is quite limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be confined to a few select points and must...
Ottawa, November 2, 2022 – A citizens group, chaired by Preston Manning, announced plans for a National Citizens Inquiry (NCI) into Canada’s response to COVID-19 in Ottawa today. Canada’s federal, provincial, and municipal governments’ responses to COVID-19 were of an...
Date Line: Ottawa, Canada ‘In a ruling by the Associate Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada, Law has formally separated from Justice in the former democratic State called Canada.’ Press Report It is not reasonable , according to this Senior Judge, to have a...
In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”, Socrates paints a striking portrait of people chained, from birth, deep in a cave by the neck and legs so that they can only see the dark walls inside the cave. Consequently, they only “know” the shadows cast by firelight behind...
Following a question at her first press conference as premier, Danielle Smith expressed sympathies for unvaccinated Canadians who were persecuted by the COVID-19 regime. Smith mentioned that these Canadians “have been the most discriminated against group that I have...