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TORONTO SAUGA 960 AM– A DISCUSSION ON CANADA 2024 – WITH DAVID LEIS
David Leis speaks with Richard Syrett on Toronto SAUGA 960 am about the state of the nation. (20 minutes) March 27 2024 Related Items: Canada 2024: A Confident Resilient Nation or a Fearful Fractured Country?
Trudeau ‘Finished What His Father Started’ Driving Canada Into Failing Freefall
In 2015 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau scorned Canada — a country that afforded him so much, yet to which he had contributed nothing of notable significance. His disdain for those on whose backs Canada was built was clear. History and European national origins had to...
How Canada Achieved Its System of Responsible Government
Throughout human history there have been innumerable forms of government devised to bring order and law to societies. Empires, kingdoms, anarcho-syndicalist communes, soviets, emirates, oligarchies, theocracies, fascist dictatorships, people’s republics, federal...
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
Leaders On The Frontier – Sir John A. Macdonald’s Legacy Lives On – With Patrice Dutil
Big Topics & Big Ideas
Masterful COVID Guide Book for Policy Makers
A Review of: Canada’s COVID: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic, Expanded Edition by Barry Cooper and Marco Navarro-Genie (2 of 2)
Political Science as Public Service
Book Review: Canada’s COVID: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic by Barry Cooper and Marco Navarro-Genie (1 of 2)
Long-Term Labour Analysis Shows Trudeau’s Policies Hurt Alberta
An analysis of Alberta’s labour market highlights how political leadership shaped (and hurt) its economic environment
The CDC Covered Up the Vaccine’s Risks
Brownstone Institute
Canada Should Follow New Zealand’s Fiscal Lead
New Zealand may be kicking off a fiscal trend: boldly downsizing its public-sector payrolls to trim unwieldy government deficits. Its new coalition government, elected last October, is moving to eliminate 15,000 civil service jobs. David Seymour, ACT Party leader,...
CHRIS TROTTER: Where The People Walk
Democracy Project
The Nunavut Devolution – Good Idea?
“The best laid plans of mice men often go awry” – Robbie Burns
Canada’s Productivity Problems Are Deeply Rooted
Canada’s relatively weak productivity is one of the most discussed but least resolved economic problems confronting Canadians. The problem is often attributed to inadequate investment, insufficient competition, internal trade barriers and many other possibilities. The...