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The Renewable Part of Hydrogen is the Hype
Once again, the world is staging ClimateFest 26, aka the United Nations Conference of the Parties, where peddlers of alternative energy schemes try to plunge their dippers into the river of climate change funding that flows around the world. This funding is generated...
Small Gestures Speak Louder than Great Deeds
The age-old expression that actions speak louder than words conveys an important insight: character is best judged through action. Anyone can say or promise anything but doing requires ability and skill, discipline and commitment. So, the simplest test of character is...
Preston Manning: Toward a National Inquiry Into Canada’s Management of the COVID Crisis
Increasing numbers of Canadians are demanding a national, independent investigation into government mismanagement of the COVID outbreak. Because governments themselves would be the subject of such an investigation, its conduct would need to be assigned to a...
Twelve Decades of Elites Against the People
Democratic capitalism is a remarkably empowering and wealth-generating structure. Although wealth is not a zero-sum game, power may well be. In Chapter 17 of his 2011 book The Fruits of Graft: Great Depressions Then and Now, Wayne Jett explores how certain elitists...
It’s High Time Canadians Flew Freely
Canada’s federal travel mandates are so oppressive, even apolitical international agencies have stepped up to condemn them. The International Air Transport Association has added its voice to the Official Opposition, citizens, airline staff fired for their vaccination...
Peckford: Canadian Democracy in Crisis
So, Who Thinks The Governments of Canada Want to Get to The Bottom Of The Necessity and Constitutionality of Their Covid Measures? That’s Why an Independent Citizen’s Inquiry is so Crucial Last fall I indicated that all the Premiers and the Prime Minister of Canada...
COVID Commission Needed
Ironically enough, fiction can be a great way to illustrate truth. Preston Manning proved this recently with a short story on a citizen led COVID commission he wrote for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. In 46 pages, Manning envisions a scenario where the public...
Students Against Mandates: Response to Manning’s “Report of the COVID Commission”
Over the last two years, Canadians have been told to “trust the science” without raising a question. Despite reasonable concerns, the evidence from Pfizer’s and Moderna’s randomized controlled trials (RCT) showed that for every 103 deaths in the “vaccinated” group...
Peckford: A Proposal to Reclaim Canada
Canada’s Magna Carta—We, The Citizens of Canada Stand For … A) An Independent Public National Inquiry to examine whether Government (Federal, Provincial and Territorial) mandates and lockdowns were necessary and constitutional. People in Government and their...
Leighton Grey: Preston Manning’s Thought Experiment: “The Covid Commission”
Imagination is Everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions – Albert Einstein A hallmark of Albert Einstein’s career was his use of thought experiments or “Gedankenexperiment” as a fundamental tool for understanding physical issues and for elucidating...
Have We Learned Anything From the COVID-19 Response?
COVID-19 just ain’t what it used to be. The SARS-CoV-2 virus was never as deadly as feared in its early days and has evolved to be even less so today. The vaccines rushed to production in response weren’t the answer that some hoped, and they have proved less effective...