The foundational idea of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is the Marxist theory that all humanity is divided between oppressors and victims. This class conflict can be seen in its economic dimension (bourgeois vs. proletarians), its political dimension...
Trump's Team Unity... Tulsi Gabbard, JD Vance, President-elect Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jun., Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy... if they're able to do all they're promising, Canada will be more uncompetitive yet, writes Brian Giesbrecht and the best and brightest...
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AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey The Enlightenment-inspired higher education that I encountered during my 1958-72 studies at Antioch College and the University of Chicago, and at McGill University for much of the time when I was a professor there beginning in 1968, was...
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
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Poet T.S. Elliot once wrote, “This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.” Canada has fallen but has all the illusion of being what it always was. Many Canadians fail to see a dystopian future foretold decades ago has arrived. Our...
The justifications used throughout history to hate, exclude, abuse, and murder Jews have been many and varied. In Christian countries, Jews were accused of murdering Jesus, of poisoning wells, of slaughtering Christian children whose blood was needed to make matza...
Religious freedoms and the right to worship have been a recognized hallmark of civilized societies for centuries. The preamble of Canada’s constitution says our country is built on the principles that acknowledge the supremacy of God and the rule of law. In defiance...
Perhaps it should be expected that a so-obviously ‘woke’ institution as the Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) would toss aside such antiquated concepts as academic merit as it prepares to open its new medical school in the fall of 2025. After all, until...
Conventional wisdom has it that the US and much of the Western world has polarized into right and left. These tribes are hard-core and share mutual loathing. That model of understanding pervades all popular media and consumes the culture, such that everyone feels the...
Pollsters at the Cultural Research Center of Arizona Christian University projected that 104 million people of faith, including 32 million Christian churchgoers, will abstain from voting in November “Intellect is not wisdom.” ― Thomas Sowell Considering Communism's...
Today’s self-described “progressives” are progressive in name only When we think of the word “progressive,” we usually picture someone who stands for social justice, equality, and civil rights. The idea is to move society forward by challenging injustices,...
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