What do burning churches and bullets fired at synagogues have in common? Both are happening because we are governed by people who are committed to a worldview in which there are “oppressors” or “oppressed”. Indigenous and Palestinians are “oppressed” and those who go...
Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it - George Santayana Cancellation culture is a relatively novel concept, coming to fruition with surprising vengeance only a few years ago. Former President Donald Trump provoked a passionate moral...
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called Canada the first post-national state, the implications went farther than divisive multiculturalism. Increasingly, those with the same characteristics as this country’s founders find their government, media, and academic...
It is late December and, as one looks around, the usual sights and sounds are in evidence. The parking lots of shopping malls are full. The postman’s bag is swollen with cards, flyers, and appeals from charitable organizations. Stacks of Amazon boxes pile up beside...
The COVID-19 crisis led to significant travel restrictions in the world and in Canada. The country has totally or partially closed its national borders to tourists and non-essential travellers. Within Canada, travel between provinces has been restricted. Indeed, some...
Recently, a previously-mooted huge, estimated $55 billion Liquefied Natural Gas, ‘LNG’, project taking natural gas from Northeastern British Columbia to its northwest coast at Pearse Island received the blessing and explicit financial and political backing from the...
The recent marriage of Prince Henry to an American divorcée and the declining vigour of our sovereign majesty Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God Queen of this Realm and of Her Other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, has led some...
The old home for the Coventry Evening Telegraph is a building frozen in time. The publishers boarded the place up in 2012 when it moved to more modern facilities. Its home of more than 50 years is now an arts space where people come to take pictures. The scene has a...
The Government of Canada initiated a new ideological vetting of applicants for its summer job program for students. The organizations nominating students for summer grants, and the students and their parents, must declare that they conform to Government of Canada...
Freedom of religion is guaranteed to all Canadians in the Charter of Rights and Freedom. The Charter has taken two major blows recently - one from a recent policy change implemented earlier this year by the Trudeau government, the second from our Supreme Court. The...
This short video covers the key points of Chapter Two "The Broken Window" from Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson." The Broken Window Fallacy is a classic story first told by Frederic Bastiat, showing the danger of only seeing one side of an economic activity....
The legacy of Pierre Elliott Trudeau is a controversial one. Some of us who lived through his years of leadership worship the man--others still despise him for The National Energy Program and The War Measures Act. Nevertheless, every Canadian knows his name. His is...
“An anthropologist is someone who respects the distinctive values of every culture but his own. We in the West are all anthropologists now.” --Roger Kimball, The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of America-- Soon after arriving at McGill...
The string of calls for public apologies continues unabated. Yet again, demands have been made that Pope Francis apologize for the role that the Catholic Church played in the Indian Residential School system. His refusal to do so has outraged native leaders....
Much has been made lately of the arrival of a new Canadian superhero. Welcome please, Amka Aliyak, alias Snowguard, a shape-shifting Inuit lass from Pangnirtung, in Nunavut who will soon be appearing on the pages of a Marvel comic book. With the assistance of her...