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BC Cancer Patients Pay the Price for Government Inaction on Healthcare
The dominos continue to fall in Canada’s rapidly imploding healthcare system. This week, the spotlight is on British Columbia’s cancer patients who have been waiting months to undergo radiation treatments. As a result, BC Health Minister Adrian Dix has...
Dr. Eric Payne’s Testimony on the Dangers of COVID-19 “Vaccines” for Children
Civil Liberties, COVID-19, Video
National Citizens Inquiry, Red Deer, Day 3
Leaders on the Frontier: Cost of Living Under Crisis with Charles Blain and Wendell Cox
Economy, Video, Housing Affordability
Big Topics & Big Ideas
Sacrificing Success on the ‘Altar of Equity’
Somewhere around the mid-1960s the conventional conservative model of the English grammar school was finally over-turned by a new-age, liberal-progressive intellectual alliance of “progressive educators.” This shift of power and influence to the left led to changes in...
After Covid: Twelve Challenges for a Shattered World
COVID-19, Essay, Healthcare, Public Sector
Three years ago, in the depths of lockdowns, it became obvious that we desperately needed a new citizen movement with a different focus. Prevailing ideological forms were simply not adapted to the enormous exogenous shock to the system that lockdowns implied. It was...
“Not Dark Yet, But It’s Getting There”
Is Net Zero compatible with mass prosperity?
Immiserating a Proud People
Aboriginal Futures, Commentary
Like American blacks, Palestinians, South American and African peasants and tribespeople, and of course, women, the Left’s primary tactic is destroy their well-being, break their culture, atomize and isolate them. Then promise to help with taxpayer money, which...
Macdonald’s Legacy (Part 2): The Man and His Vision for Canada
Essay, Culture Wars, Education, Justice
Part 2 of a 5 part series
The Tragic Consequences of Big Government
Commentary, Culture Wars, Government, Politics
There has never been a successful socialist government. Despite the arguments of its advocates, socialism is indisputably the worst economic method there is. Frankly, socialism is a vehicle governments or individuals use to implement their most extreme forms of...
Creating a ‘New Normal’ for Science: Should We Really Leave That ‘Mission’ to the Feds?
ESG & DEI, Commentary, COVID-19, Culture Wars
Canadian science deserves much better.
Canadians Need a ‘Taxpayer Bill of Rights’
Commentary, Economy, Public Finance & Fiscal Federalism, Taxation
Ottawa has a spending problem, with a worrisome deficit and a debt service problem. Canada’s federal debt is about $1.2 trillion - roughly $30,000 per person, over $60,000 per household. Even worse, the debt is growing, with the current Liberal regime forecasting a...
Why No Formal Forensic Investigation?
Two years ago the Kamloops Mass Graves Story shocked the country. A researcher suggested that 215 soil disturbances at the site of the former Kamloops Residential School might possibly be graves of missing children. Politicians rushed to recognize the worst...