At first slowly but in recent weeks with seemingly gathering pace, two trends have emerged. On the one hand, many of the core claims behind lockdowns, masks, and vaccines are unravelling and the prevailing narrative has been in retreat on all three fronts. But there...
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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...
Leaders on the Frontier: State Power & Covid Crimes with Professor Ramesh Thakur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=940jed7rfpA Jeremy Prest welcomes world renowned professor & researcher Ramesh Thakur to discuss his five-part paper entitled State Power & COVID Crimes. From his experience at the UN, and many global science committees...
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....
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Strike Before the Crumble
COVID-19 has left a gaping hole in Quebec’s healthcare system. Lack of nursing personnel, testing shortages, overflooding hospitals and postponed surgeries have turned Quebec’s healthcare into complete chaos. "We must invest in the health-care system, which is in the...
Let a Thousand Capital Markets Bloom
Alarm bells ought to be ringing in Canada. Business, industrial and foreign direct investment have performed pitifully over the past decade, with no reason to believe there will be a turnaround any time soon. As noted by Steven Globerman of Western Washington...
Canada has its Priorities Wrong Over PPE Shipments
Canada has its priorities all wrong when it comes to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) manufacturing and distribution, and through a series of missteps, the government put its own citizens in danger. Negligence and mismanagement resulted in Canada shipping away...
COVID-19 Cases Increase over 3000 Percent in the Far North of Saskatchewan
Governments need to get their acts together before Indigenous communities in northern Saskatchewan experience a serious COVID-19 outbreak. This new development also places northern Saskatchewan as a unique phenomenon among northern regions in Western Canada; thus, the...
Coronavirus is our own Y2K
Twenty-one years ago, the world panicked over an invisible, media-hyped enemy. That enemy was Y2K, a problem whose shadow was much larger than its substance. Unfortunately, the “millennium bug” of that time may be the coronavirus of ours. The Y2K problem was this:...
Let’s be Realistic about Physical Distancing in Schools
These days, grocery shopping looks a little different than usual. People wait patiently outside the store in long, spaced-out, lineups. Direction arrows show customers where to move next. Customers stand at least 6 feet apart in the checkout lines. Cashiers carefully...
City Management 201: A COVID-19 Lesson for City Planners
As of now, Indigenous communities have been spared from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, although some health officials cautioned that the next two weeks will be important to see the extent of the outbreak in Indigenous communities. Unless that state of affairs...
COVID-19 Overshadows 75th Anniversary of Victory in Europe and the Lessons Learned
Seventy-five years ago Western Allied forces formally accepted the surrender of Nazi High Command leaders in Germany, ending World War II in Europe. The Wehrmacht fought the Soviet Red Army another day, surrendering on the 9th of May. Victory in Europe (VE) Day is...
The Boomers’ Last Gasp
As this wave of the pandemic winds down, we should ask honest questions about our response to it. Although an accurate assessment of the lockdowns - closing schools and businesses - is months away, we need a plan to respond to a likely second fall wave. The Economist...
A Proposed Framework for Confronting Future Pandemics, or National Emergencies
As most of the nations of the developed world, including Canada, failed to prepare adequately for the current deadly COVID-19 pandemic, questions remain about what steps should be taken to forestall, or substantially mitigate the next microbial conflagration. While...
COVID-19 and the Labour Market
Following employment losses of over one million in March, employment fell by nearly two million in April as the impacts of physical distancing and economic shutdowns on labour market activity became more apparent. Over one half of the employment losses in April were...