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The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
Essay, Culture Wars, Free Speech, Role of Government, Technology
“You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.” — Walker Percy “Our species is 300,000 years old. For the first 290,000 years, we were...
Leaders on the Frontier – Public Regulation of Personal Health – With Shawn Buckley
Audio, Civil Liberties, COVID-19, Podcast, Video, Healthcare, Leaders on the Frontier
Big Topics & Big Ideas
Scott Moe: If Atlantic Canada Won’t Pay the Carbon Tax on Heating, Neither will Sask
Commentary, Energy, Environment, Taxation
REGINA – What’s good for the Atlantic goose is good for the Saskatchewan gander, when it comes to carbon tax for home heating. And if they’re not paying the carbon tax, neither will we. That’s the strategy Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is taking when it comes to...
Two-Eyed Seeing and Indigenous Worldviews. Can There Be Many Truths?
Aboriginal Futures, Latest News, Commentary, Reconciliation, Residential Schools
Recently, an Indigenous acquaintance asked me if I had ever taken a course or training on understanding Indigenous worldviews or perspectives. He also asked if I had ever tried incorporating two-eyed seeing into my life and thought processes. My correspondent feels it...
The Decline And Near Fall Of The COVID Vaccine Makers
Commentary, COVID-19, Healthcare, Regulation
The uptake of the latest version of the COVID vaccines, which underwent almost no testing but were rubber-stamped by regulators anyway, has been far lower than expectations. The CDC is not publishing real-time data but what we know so far suggests that it is in the...
Who Really Owns The United States?
Commentary, Culture Wars, Property Rights, Reconciliation, Residential Schools
Nowadays, it is common, when introducing an event, to say something along the lines of: “We are grateful to the XYZ Indian Tribe for allowing us to hold this gathering on what is really their land.” Universities, bastions of the left, have been particularly intent...
There’s a Place for Religion
ESG & DEI, Civil Liberties, Commentary, Culture Wars
DIE– diversity, inclusion and equity – has reached a new milestone. Canada’s military chaplains have been banned from wearing traditional religious symbols or saying prayers at public ceremonies. Canadian Forces Chaplain-General Guy Belisle explained the rationale in...
Targeted tax cut?
The federal government is removing its carbon tax on home heating oil- which is the primary source of heating in Atlantic Canada - until after the next election. Coincidentally, the government holds 24 seats of 32 seats in Atlantic Canada. ...
HELE Coal Still Has a Valuable Place in the Energy Mix
The Climate Apocalypse alarmists look more than a little discredited with their claims of solar and wind energy reliability and low cost, global warming escalation, and more frequent extreme weather events. Their ultimate threat of the imminent death of all life on...
Dr. Laura Braden, Molecular Biologist, Questions “the Science”
National Citizens Inquiry
Leaders on the Frontier – Ideology and the Isolation of Canada – with Joe Oliver
Podcast, Economy, Video, Public Finance & Fiscal Federalism, Leaders on the Frontier
Big Topics & Big Ideas
Shooting the Messenger with Blanks
Aboriginal Futures, Reconciliation, Justice
In a recent Winnipeg Free Press column, Niigaan Sinclair argues that some people are exploiting mistakes in reportage on the claims of missing children at former Indian Residential Schools (IRS).In fact, Sinclair claims: “By pointing out mistakes in media coverage,...