Big Ideas & Big Topics
Role of Government
Canada Deviated From Strategic Pandemic Response Lt. Colonel David Redman
National Citizens Inquiry, Red Deer, Day 2
Leaders on the Frontier: America’s Turmoil will be Canada’s Strife with Jeffrey Tucker
Big Topics & Big Ideas
Government’s Attempt to Erase Canada’s Past Follows the Path of French Revolution, Communist Regimes
A person without roots, without a memory, without a story can be easily influenced and cause no trouble to the authorities. A nation without a common history in which citizens can take pride cannot long survive.
Featured News
Let’s Celebrate Reaching Global Population of Eight Billion
Recently, the United Nations estimated that the population of Planet Earth had reached eight billion souls. Despite the chatter of the highly subsidized climate doomster complex this is quite an achievement - it certainly indicates that the carrying capacity of our...
China’s “Truckers’ Convoy”
Anti-lockdown protests are now taking place across China - the Chinese equivalent of our Truckers’ Convoy. The protests are a reaction to the brutal policies that literally lock people in their apartments, when even one infection is detected. As in Canada, when...
The Two Left Coasts: Why the GOP wave didn’t wash over New York and California
“Tuesday’s GOP landslide didn’t spare many Democrats, but it did stop at the state lines of California and New York. These coastal exceptions deserve some explanation, because they illustrate the difficulties Republicans will face if they fail to reform entitlements, taxes and public spending.”
If Canada Can Do It…: Slashing the State in the Great White North
“In 1994 government debt was 68 percent of Canada’s GDP. By 2008 that number was down to 29 percent. Finance Minister Paul Martin Jr. and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, both of the Liberal Party, are the two unlikely stars in this heroic tale of fiscal discipline.”
Are We Sliding Into A Tyranny Of Good Intentions?
“‘I am of two minds about democracy,’ he writes, ‘and so is everyone else. We all agree that it is the sovereign remedy for corruption, war and poverty in the Third World. We would certainly tolerate no other system in our own country. Yet most people are disenchanted with the way it works. One reason is that our rulers now manage so much of our lives that they cannot help but do it badly. They have overreached. Blunder follows blunder.'”
Welcome Return Of The Prodigal True Liberal
“Fraser wants the Liberal Party to return to “liberal values”. But what are they? Has any ideological label been more contested, coveted and contorted than the term liberal?
Canada Trails In Legalizing Pot Debate: Policy makers need to take profit out of illegal drugs
“Drugs, prostitution and illegal gambling are all activities that bring harm in many instances to individuals, families and communities and many feel they are immoral. But, one needs to look at the unintended consequences of prohibiting all these activities. People will always want to do these things and criminals often reap the benefits because they can provide them at exorbitant prices and people will still pay.”
Too Smart For Our Own Good:: How The “Best and Brightest” May Hurt Society
Intellectuals have distorted the debate or advocated poor policy because of their lack of knowledge of the concrete consequences of their ideas, this according to a new book from Thomas Sowell.
Zero Budget Growth
“Over the past hundred years, government has grown to gigantic proportions. It intervenes in almost every aspect of our lives.”
‘Compassion Knows No Ideological Bounds’ is true
Feedback to Mark Milke’s Compassion Has No Ideological Litmus Test Policy Note.
Compassion Has No Ideological Litmus Test
A few bad apples or someone’s bad day doesn’t indict the rest of us, regardless of how we peg ourselves in some less-than-perfect ideological description.