Canada is, without question, a land of historic treaties, particularly in the West. There were treaties between the Hudson’s Bay Company and Indigenous communities in Rupert’s Land for building trading posts and using waterways. The Métis of the Red River …
The Anti-Science Wing of the Organic Movement
Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, published over half a century ago, lent itself for organic activists to “cherry-pick” from her writings and to adopt the prevalent view that anything synthetic is bad and everything natural is good. A mere handful …
The Big Shift by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson
Professor Barry Cooper reviews Bricker and Ibbitson’s book The Big Shift, and emphasises that Canada is entering an era of greater plurality when it comes to the way in which we understands who we are as a country. Darrell Bricker …
Eco-Fascists by Elizabeth Nickson
Professor Barry Cooper reviews Elizabeth Nickson’s controversial book “eco-fascism” and discusses the threat that radical conservationism poses to the development of smart environmental policy in Canada. Elizabeth Nickson can write. She developed her skills as a foreign correspondent for Time …
Author Attacks Economic Dependency: Aboriginal offers solutions for breaking cycle
A revolutionary new work by Native author Calvin Helin looks at various forms of economic dependency, arguing that dependency fails because it ignores human nature.
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.