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Supreme Court Must Close Restoule Decision’s Open Floodgates
Aboriginal Futures, Commentary, Justice
On December 21st, 2018, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, in its unprecedented, de-stabilizing Restoule vs. Ontario and Canada decision, where all these causes came into play, ruled that Canada and Ontario were liable- 50-50- to pay to 21 rent-seeking Ontario...
Leaders on the Frontier – Financial Powers and Changing the Course of Nations – With Gina Pappano
Audio, Culture Wars, Economy, Podcast, Video, Leaders on the Frontier
Big Topics & Big Ideas
Reinventing Transit for the 21st Century
Commentary, Transportation, Urbanization
Canada’s first subway line, which opened in Toronto in 1954, was 7.4 kilometers long and cost $6.8 million per kilometer—$76 million per kilometer in today’s money. That seems a bargain compared to a subway line Toronto is now constructing at a projected cost of well...
Building 21st Century Transit Systems For Canadian Cities
Research Papers, Transportation, Urbanization
Policy Series 241
Revival of Rail Transit in Canada Questioned by Latest Policy Report
Media Release, Transportation, Urbanization
WINNIPEG, [March 12 2024] Canada's transit landscape is experiencing a profound transformation as eight major cities embark on the ambitious journey of developing rail transit systems. This marks a significant departure from the conventional wisdom of the 1950s when...
Peckford: Canada’s Hamartia- Now That We Can Amend Our Constitution We Have No Leadership To Do So
Commentary, Role of Government
One of the important arguments in the negotiations leading to the Patriation Agreement/Constitution Act 1982 was we needed to be able to amend our Constitution. No more reference to Great Britain’s Parliament. We can set our own Constitutional course—to be a truly...
Manitoba is Fortunate to Not Have Teacher Strikes
Saskatchewan students are not having a good school year. Teachers in that province are currently engaged in rotating strikes and there is a real possibility of a full teachers’ strike in the near future. The Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation wants class size and...
Emperors Of Woke Have No Clothes and Conservatives Should Say So
Civil Liberties, Commentary, Core Public Sector Reform, Culture Wars
Why do Conservatives go along with woke ideas, woke norms and above all woke people? One of these days we're going to be really sorry we didn't stand up to this nonsense, when the proverbial little boy calls out that the emperor has no clothes. Men can be women?...
The Solution to our Government-Induced Malaise
Climate, Commentary, Energy, Regulation
Studying last month’s Davos meeting of the world’s (largely self-appointed) elites, Walter Russell Mead sees an inflection point. He says that when they listened to Argentinian President Milei promoting free market capitalism, the Davosies’ applause was more than...
Should The Federal Liberals And New Democrats Unite Into a Single Party?
With the most recent federal polls, the Liberals and the NDP are running neck and neck. Over the last decade, the policies of the two parties have become more and more indistinguishable. The term "liberalism" is defined as a political movement which supports the...
Initial COVID-19 Data and Documentation of the Vaccinated
National Citizens Inquiry
From Censorship to Criminalizing Dissent
Commentary, Climate, Free Speech
History does seem to be on fast forward, doesn’t it? A major battle is brewing throughout the Western world over the basic principle of free speech. Is it going to be protected by law? It isn’t entirely clear what the outcome will be. We seem to be on the precipice of...