Finally, there’s a ray of hope in the Halton District School Board (HDSB). After months of defending the indefensible, HDSB trustees passed a motion asking its director of education to draft a dress code for teachers. If this dress code requires even a minimum level...
Culture Wars
A Just Transition for the CBC
The influence of traditional print and broadcast news media has dropped dramatically. Even with handsome government handouts, many of them are barely alive today. In the market transition that is taking place, out of the slump of the old media a few new ones, such as...
The Collapse of the Progressive Economy
The future belongs to blue-collar workers In recent decades, progressive politics has been underwritten by the ascendant economic titans of capital, technology, and communication. Big Tech and financial firms have long financed Democratic causes, led by those...
Brian Peckford: On Jordan Peterson
What is this country coming to? A man who is a household name across the Globe. A person who stands for common sense and writes books detailing that. Oh! And he was raised in a democratic country where expressing your views, exercising free speech, was a given. And...
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Canada’s Best Doctors Suffer the COVID-19 Inquisition
Some of Canada's best doctors have suffered undue trouble for sharing their concerns with lockdowns, masks, social distancing and COVID-19 vaccines. Authorities in the medical profession have treated these physicians like apparent heretics under the threat of...
Inflation and the Collective Debt: Consequences of COVID-19 Measures
The economic consequences of COVID-19 and the shutdown of the economy are difficult to evaluate. But some of them have begun to appear and risk hindering recovery. Inflation is one of these harmful consequences. In the USA, consumer prices jumped 4.2 per cent in the...
Is Western Civilization Worth Defending?
“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...
Another Look at Apologies
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....
Canadian Superheroes Abound
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...
Are White Men Personae Non-Gratae?
In contemporary British and Canadian television programs, women dominate the police forces. Any men officers are often men of colour. In older police dramas, the police were predominantly men.[1] Even in a few current programs, there are more male police, although the...
Some Good News about Race
We are often told that Canada and the U.S.A. are racist societies. Minority activists denounce white society and demand compensatory measures. Black Lives Matter in Canada declares that “Black Power Matters.” In the United States, Black Lives Matter campaign against...
The Indigenous Grandmother
On May 15, 2018 CBC Radio aired a story about an Indigenous woman who complained that a security officer, and then a City of Winnipeg police officer, had treated her improperly while she was attending a Winnipeg Jets related “Whiteout” event. The woman, who described...
How long is the career of a public figure when facing anonymous accusations of sexual misconduct? In the case of Ontario Conservative leader Patrick Brown it was measured in hours from the moment CTV released the news to his resignation.
Regrets, I’ve Had a Few
The Prime Minister mounted the National Apology Pulpit in Ottawa again this week by promising that at some point Parliament would express its regret for the McKenzie King government’s refusal in 1939 to grant asylum to German Jews aboard the MS St. Louis. The ship,...
Bridge City News interview: Political Correctness and Progressive Stacking
Many Canadians are beginning to speak out against what seems to be an excess amount of political correctness, especially in the political and academic realms. Dr. Philip Salzman, Senior Fellow with Frontier Centre for Public Policy speaks with Bridge City news on...