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Why the Right is Eating the Left’s Lunch
Progressives have abandoned the working class and embraced the oligarchs.
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Let’s Celebrate Reaching Global Population of Eight Billion
Recently, the United Nations estimated that the population of Planet Earth had reached eight billion souls. Despite the chatter of the highly subsidized climate doomster complex this is quite an achievement - it certainly indicates that the carrying capacity of our...
China’s “Truckers’ Convoy”
Anti-lockdown protests are now taking place across China - the Chinese equivalent of our Truckers’ Convoy. The protests are a reaction to the brutal policies that literally lock people in their apartments, when even one infection is detected. As in Canada, when...
A Neo-Feudal War on the People
An author should be pleased to see his thesis bolstered by events. Yet since writing The Coming of Neo-Feudalism in 2020, I have not found any joy in the continued growth of the West’s class divides, as wealth becomes increasingly concentrated in ever fewer hands. The...
Peckford: Stopping the Four Orwellian Horsemen —Big Government, Big Press, Big Pharma and Big Tech
Unrealistic—Salim Mansur Essay On Constitutional Change entitled ‘Canada is constitutionally broken, and by the will of the people it can be fixed.’ I appreciate Professor Salim Mansur’s essay concerning Constitutional Change. Unlike many academics today he is...
Conspiracy Theories Become Conspiracy Facts
At first slowly but in recent weeks with seemingly gathering pace, two trends have emerged. On the one hand, many of the core claims behind lockdowns, masks, and vaccines are unravelling and the prevailing narrative has been in retreat on all three fronts. But there...
3 Years Ago this Week, the World Ended
By: Jeffrey A Tucker For two months before lockdowns came to the United States, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was broadcasting the lie that its Wuhan lockdowns killed the virus. Control the people, they said, lock them up, prohibit all human movement, and do it...
Etam: If China is Picking Our Politicians can We at Least get Them to Teach Us About Industrial Policy?
There is something really crappy and dumb going on with Canadian industrial policy. Maybe you’ve figured it out. I sure haven’t. In the spirit of “the more minds working on it the better”, here are some low-lights to get everyone’s brains working on it before...
10 Years Ago: Winnipeg’s Libertarian Socialist: Nick Ternette RIP
As the so-called culture wars continue to engulf Canadian politics, it is interesting to see how far the political left has changed over the past decade. Today’s left is deeply obsessed with woke, top-down identity politics, cancel culture, censoring speech, climate...
What Was the Point of Denying Natural Immunity?
On Nov. 13, 2020, just as the vaccine was being rolled out (surely a sheer coincidence that it was just after the election), the World Health Organization (WHO) made a hugely significant change to its website. It pertained to the section on herd immunity—the concept...
Covid-19: an Update on Defending Freedom in the Courts
Our Topic: Covid-19: an Update on Defending Freedom in the Courts Canadian governments responded to the Covid-19 virus by aggressively withdrawing the rights and freedoms of Canadians. The imposition of lockdowns including the closing of many businesses, schools,...
Covid-19: an Update on Defending Freedom in the Courts
Canadian governments responded to the Covid-19 virus by aggressively withdrawing the rights and freedoms of Canadians. The imposition of lockdowns including the closing of many businesses, schools, places of worship, and vaccine mandates were just some of the many actions that governments believed were justified in response to the pandemic.