Many Canadians are aware of stories of how immigrants were originally attracted to Canada through the promise of free land. The then Minister responsible for immigration, Clifford Sifton, had his staff spread out across central and eastern Europe promising free land...
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When Plato Wins, Everyone Loses
What would be better-- children conceived by random intercourse and raised by the state, or children raised by their parents in the same household? Plato, the Greek philosopher from ancient times, said the former; and whether we realize it or not, his philosophy has...
Peckford: Mainstream Parties Do Not Deserve to Govern Canada
In the last 40 years our debt has mushroomed 10 times. We are now into the trillions regarding federal debt. 1981-2 our federal debt was $107 billion. 2021—our federal debt is over $1,000,000,000,000. Depending on how you measure ranging from $1.2 trillion to $1.8...
Peckford: Is God a Dirty Word?
Abuse of Our Charter of Rights and Freedoms And The Courts. This is one of the most disappointing things about the so called pandemic. I am not a lawyer but I have been around them most of my political life and had the good fortune of having several legal minds in my...
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Promote Equity by Providing a Quality Education
Earlier this year, a group called Equity Matters asked the province to establish an education equity secretariat. They want this office to oversee equity officers working in Manitoba schools. Equity Matters wants to ensure that all Manitoba students are reflected in...
Why Frances Widdowson Matters
Frances Widdowson probably isn't someone most Canadians recognize. I'm here to tell you why they should. In terms of Canada's intellectual culture, Frances Widdowson matters because she is a classic and prolific academic. In a time when demagoguery easily flourishes,...
From Rhetoric to Reality on Public Transport
People tend to adopt those products and practices that make their lives better. For those few (in the national context) who work in the largest downtown areas, transit makes their lives better. For those working elsewhere, cars do.
Governments Already “Stimulate” Business
Governments have spent $182 billion on corporate welfare over 12 years. That’s “stimulus” enough.
Let Detroit Face The Music
A bailout would only buy time, allowing Detroit to make it to the next bailout, with government running the show in an increasingly distorted and regulated market. A bankruptcy process should install a permanent reorganization, with the companies (or whatever combination emerges) still part of a viable auto industry operating in a genuine market.
Bailing Out the Big Three
A view of bail out mania from the lighter side …
Manitoba – Canada’s Biggest Provincial Landlord
Another Downside of Rent Control. FC045
Corporate Canada and Our Fiscal Life-Jackets
Corporations will always rise and fall; they shouldn’t be given help to grab life-jackets from the rest of us on the way down.
Another Election isn’t Much More Costly than Continued Party Subsidies
Some argue that one option to the current political crisis in Ottawa, an election, should be forsworn because of the $300 million cost. But if all political party subsidies were done away with, the savings over five years would be $260-million.
Now for the Real Shock Doctrine
As we are now witnessing, Klein’s disaster capitalist complex is a mythical creation, the shock doctrine of disaster capitalism an artificial construct. Disaster capitalism never got off the ground. From Russia to Canada to Europe and the United States under Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, there isn’t a country in the world that hasn’t undergone the experience of a political takeover by the left on the wave of a crisis.
The American Strategy of Rewarding Irresponsibility
As the economic watering hole dries up, the creatures that depend on it are beginning to look at one another differently. But for the greedy, the incompetent, and the outright stupid, it’s a new morning. A shot of redemption is at hand, courtesy of everybody else.