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Woke Ideologues Loathe the Legacy of English-Speaking Peoples
While assessing the merits of historical developments that occurred during the second millennium, the India-born economist and author Deepak Lal asserted that “the ascent of the English-speaking peoples to prominence in the world surely ranked highest. The...
DEI Needs to DIE
ESG & DEI, Commentary, Culture Wars
The policy of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (so-called DEI) holds that marginalized or previously discriminated groups should have preference in hiring, training, and promotion to higher managerial levels in workplaces. Fighting so-called systemic racism,...
Should we focus on dividing the cake or baking a bigger cake?
CAKE THEORY emerged in 2010 as problems with increasing wealth and income gaps became more apparent. If economic development is seen as analogous to baking a cake, one side of the debate suggests that prior to baking the cake, society should focus on "dividing the...
The Charter Right to Protest
Civil Liberties, COVID-19, Free Speech, Video
National Citizens Inquiry
Is the Deep State Really Awesome?
Commentary, Government, Role of Government
For years, corporate media made fun of people (like me) who wrote about the existence of the deep state. This is just wild paranoia, they said. There is no such thing! Oh really? Yep, that’s what they said. And when Donald Trump said he would drain the swamp,...
The Call To Abandon ESG Is A Plea For Indigenous Prosperity
Aboriginal Futures, ESG & DEI, Commentary, Energy
If the activists behind ESG cared, they would not stand in the way of First Nation and Metis communities that wish to move from poverty to prosperity through energy projects. Initially, the three criteria to measure or value investments – Environment, Social, and...
Leaders on the Frontier – The Biggest Battle in America – with Jim Lakely
Climate, Video, Politics, Leaders on the Frontier
Big Topics & Big Ideas
Canada Is Finding Out What Reconciliation Really Means
Commentary, Culture Wars, Reconciliation, Residential Schools
Quesnel, Quesnel, Quesnel! My goodness, what in the world are you smoking? I mean, it’s all so great…for so many reasons! And, I fully encourage you to continue on this path. But only because the ongoing grotesque displays of illiberalism, sexism, racism, and general...
The Kamloops Guilt Trip, Three Years On
Commentary, Culture Wars, Reconciliation
The third anniversary of the Kamloops claim — that 215 indigenous students died under sinister circumstances, and were buried in secrecy on the grounds of the local residential school — is fast approaching. No excavations have taken place to date. It is becoming...
Ottawa’s Capital Gains Tax Raise Guarantees More Stagnation
Commentary, Public Finance & Fiscal Federalism, Taxation
Canadians have been treated to the latest growth-strangling budget of our mushrooming federal government. Aside from the usual profligate Ottawa spending plans, one move has caused justifiable consternation: the capital gains inclusion rate is to be raised from one...
Canada Now has the Third Highest Global Capital Gains Tax Rate
Charticle, Public Finance & Fiscal Federalism, Taxation
Canada Now has the Third Highest Global Capital Gains Tax Rate The April 16th federal budget increased Canada’s inclusion rate for capital gains, sharply moving Canada up in the effective marginal capital gains tax rate versus rival nations. According to...
The Trans Mountain Pipeline saga: We need to know what went wrong and what we can do better.
With the Trans Mountain Pipeline starting to ship oil this week, the whole country can breathe a sigh of relief that we are finally able to ship large amounts of oil out of Canada without having to go through the USA. The original cost in 2013 was supposed to be $6.8...