Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has officially filed with the Federal Election Commission as a candidate for president. Yes, he’ll run for president as a Democrat, challenging President Joe Biden in the primaries. Does he have any chance? A quick quip: He has as much chance as...
COVID-19
The Swedish Response to Covid-19 versus Canada
In a recent New York Times article, David Wallace Wells asked, “How did No-Mandate Sweden End up with such an average pandemic”. Let’s be clear. This admission from the New York Times, who tried to destroy the response to Covid-19, starting in April 2020 and...
Salute To Swedes For Standing Up To Project Fear
According to the Swedish Statistics Agency, three years into the pandemic Sweden has the lowest rate of excess deaths in Europe, Danish TV2 recently reported, quoting also several other sources, all showing more or less the same. A year ago Nature published a...
Leaders on the Frontier – Bad Data = Bad Outcomes with Deanna McLeod
Deanna McLeod, Principal & Lead Strategist at Kaleidoscope Strategic Inc. walks David Leis through a fascinating timeline of how the pandemic measures and vax trials got it wrong and how the normal parameters of a medical study were not properly followed;...
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Free Trade among the Prairie Provinces: A Boost for Their Economies
Trade barriers among provinces in Canada are a problem. Canada has signed trade agreements with foreign countries like the U.S. and regions like the European Union. Yet, trade barriers still exist in Canada even though countries like Germany or Belgium don’t have...
“Capitol” Punishment: A Betrayal
The attack on the Capitol in Washington and its aftermath have taken a toll, but unfortunately, the incident will remain remote and extraordinary for most. It has been politicized, sensationalized and reconstructed, but its tragic impact on those on the front lines is...
Protecting Canadian Ecosystems Against Invasive Foreign Species
The five largest mass die-offs in which 50–95% of species were eliminated occurred during the Ordovician, Devonian, Permian, Triassic, and Cretaceous periods. Most recently, human actions, especially over the past two centuries, have precipitated a global extinction...
Blockades and Powwows
The chief of a Manitoba First Nation (reserve) intends to proceed with a powwow despite provincial COVID-19 regulations prohibiting large gatherings. Recently, four other First Nations set up blockades in northern Manitoba. One chief publicly tore up the court order...
From the Fiscal COVID Collapse – A Roadmap for Rebuilding Manitoba Public Policy
Canada’s Triple A credit rating was downgraded a notch to AA by Fitch Rating on June 24th. Sadly, it’s no surprise - expect more downgrades as politicians stumble over each other to throw borrowed (and printed) money at the victims of their unwise COVID-19 virus...
Prioritizing Climate over Pandemics
As of May 20, the United States had more than 1.5 million confirmed cases of the Wuhan Coronavirus. US deaths related or attributed to the virus topped 92,000 (though many were really due to old age and related co-morbidities). Because of COVID-19, much of the US...
Impact of COVID-19 on Canada’s Economy
After months of COVID-19 restrictions causing a full economic shutdown of our country and others worldwide, what will be the result? Our guest today is Fergus Hodgson, Research Associate at Frontier Centre for Public Policy and Director of EconAmericas. WATCH FULL...
COVID-19 has Revealed how Modern Politics has Banned Common Sense
If there is one thing that the coronavirus pandemic has taught us, and it has taught us many things, it’s that partisan politics has completely taken hold of public discourse and, in effect, banned common sense. This truth was made most clear in early May when UK...
Simple Solutions for Complicated Problems
Modern medicine has at its disposal a vast array of technologies that can be utilized to identify, track and predict the risk and potential impact of emerging infectious diseases. Bioassays, genome sequencing and molecular technology can identify a novel pathogen. ...
We Have Betrayed our Elders and Compromised our Children’s Future
The reports about nursing home deaths keep getting worse. Thousands of parents and grandparents have died before their time because of our collective negligence. At the same time, our decision to lock down has economic consequences that will hurt us for generations....
Learning to Live with COVID-19
The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes that we have to learn to live with COVID-19. Notwithstanding hope of a vaccine, there is no guarantee. Thus, the virus awaits as we step out our door. And it could get worse. Here, the virus has been suppressed by a...