News
What Doubling The Grid Really Means
Commentary, Climate, Energy, Saskatchewan
Recently my daughter called me while on her way back from a Costco run in Regina, heading home to Weyburn. She noted that it appears they are twinning the highway between Regina and Weyburn. Indeed, they are, I explained. And several years later, they’ll probably get...
NDP Premier Thinks Big on Economic Transformation
Commentary, Equalization, Taxation, Unions
Despite many who would never dare believe it, Premier Wab Kinew has come out said he would like to become a transformational economic leader in our province. The evidence? Well, not too long ago at an event held at the Manitoba Chamber of Commerce Kinew addressed an...
The Nunavut Devolution – Good Idea?
Commentary, Reconciliation, Role of Government, Nunavut
“The best laid plans of mice men often go awry” – Robbie Burns
Global warming or a bonspiel thaw?
The Canadian prairies are experiencing unusually warm weather, well above seasonal average. Many people point to climate change as the reason for this. What is interesting is that the Canadian Prairies often go through a warming period starting in mid-January, and...
The Sad Cult of Masking
Commentary, COVID-19, Culture Wars
Brownstone Institute
Javier Milei on Socialism and Statism
Commentary, Culture Wars, Foreign Affairs, Politics
Brownstone Institute
Frontier Live on X – With Scott McGregor
Civil Liberties, COVID-19, Video, Frontier Live On X
Intelligence Analyst Scott McGregor is live with host David Leis discussing China's impact on Canada and the western world. Spy balloon and election interference, what is China up to? With the independent inquiry into foreign electoral interference underway in Ottawa,...
Peckford: Where Are We?
Blog, Civil Liberties, COVID-19, Free Speech, Justice
I have been writing this blog since 2015. I have been covering many of the major issues facing our country and the wider world. It seems that humankind has hit the wall. I remember reading the thoughts of the late evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould about...
Leaders on the Frontier – Challenging Narratives – With Jeffrey Tucker
Audio, COVID-19, Culture Wars, Podcast, Foreign Affairs, Video, Leaders on the Frontier
Big Topics & Big Ideas
The Dark Sequel to a History of Indoctrination
Commentary, Culture Wars, Education
Last year, I wrote a feature titled “From Western Traditions to Political Indoctrination: A Cultural History of Education.” The six-part series covered developments in North American education from faith-based 17th-century schoolhouses to the woke indoctrination mills...
Canada’s 50-30 Cultural Marxist Challenge
ESG & DEI, Commentary, Culture Wars
The fight for equality has morphed into equity, and with it a quest to empower minorities over all considerations–including merit. In other words, increasingly people are being hired and promoted on the basis of the colour of their skin and not the content of their...
How Canada Discovered Resistance
Civil Liberties, Commentary, Culture Wars
In February 2022, I attended the Great American Outdoor Show in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and struck up a conversation with a hunting guide from Newfoundland. We talked about guided trips to hunt moose and caribou and about how much of a haul it is to get from...