Big Topics & Big Ideas
Free Speech
The End of the End of Ideology
Brownstone Institute
From Censorship to Criminalizing Dissent
History does seem to be on fast forward, doesn’t it? A major battle is brewing throughout the Western world over the basic principle of free speech. Is it going to be protected by law? It isn’t entirely clear what the outcome will be. We seem to be on the precipice of...
Wokeism vs. Classical Liberal Truth-Based Order at the Root of Online Harms Bill Debate
Wokeism versus the classical liberal truth-based order is what the discussion on the Online Harms Bill, C-63, is really about. Although some see it as a plot to undermine free speech, it may actually represent the legitimate view of progressives—wokeism—to promote...
Featured News
Our Health Ministers Need to Take a Lesson from Hockey Coaches
Those of you who are tired of my rants about the demise of our once great health system will be pleased to know that this is my last editorial. I am retiring from the BCMJ Editorial Board; currently, I am the longest-serving member (more than 20 years). I have been a...
Zinchuk: Oilpatch Only Spending Half What It Spent in 2014
Back in the lofty, pre-Justin Trudeau government days of 2014, back when oil was booming, pipelines were planned to east and west coasts, and Alberta and Saskatchewan were swimming in money, around $81 billion was spent in capital expenditures (CAPEX) in the Canadian...
Does ‘Woke-ism’ Threaten Academic Freedom?
"Any presentation worth banning is a presentation worth attending.” So said Richard Mueller, an economics professor at the University of Lethbridge, on September 16 at the Lethbridge Public Library. Mueller was paraphrasing biochemist and writer Isaac Asimov who...
The Left Loses Badly Down Under
New Zealand’s high-tax, pro-lockdown party is smashed at the polls.
Leaders On The Frontier – Global Goals, Local Dreams With Diane Francis
Big Topics & Big Ideas
Return Of The Roman Censor
How Governments Plan to Police Public Morals
Leaders On The Frontier – Can Siloed Media Be Reconciled – With Trish Wood
Big Topics & Big Ideas
Peckford: Trucker Civil Disobedience Heroes
And so it has come to this - A System which sees its top Judge speak despairingly about people who later are to come before the very system over which he presides. A System that sees the Prime Minister of this country violate the Conflict of Interest law five times...
Official Antisemitism Marks The Demise Of Anthropology
Betraying the premises and ethics of anthropology, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) has thrown its weight behind the anti-Israel, antisemitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. This is the final act in transforming a field of honest academic...
The Intersection Of Public Good And Conflicts Of Interest – Insights From Dr. Matthew Cockle
National Citizens Inquiry
Allegations Of ‘Denialism’ Obstruct Access To Truth
Climate activists rally to urge politicians to stand against climate denial in New York on Jan. 9, 2017. (Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images) According to various sources, “denialism” is the practice of denying the validity of something for which there’s irrefutable proof....