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The Public Has To Uphold Property Rights. Nobody Else Will
Rights that are subject to a politician’s whims might as well not be rights at all
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
Exploring Canada’s Fluid Aboriginal Identity Mystery
I think I’m going to start identifying as a dark-haired 35-year-old male. That’s actually what I used to be, a long time ago. I have to start identifying that way because it’s no longer my lived chronological reality, as you might say. The verb “identify” used to...
Canada Needs Freer Dairy Trade
The “new NAFTA” – or the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) – is a mixed bag for Canadians. The bright side is that the USMCA is certainly better than having no trade agreement, and is more desirable than the massive uncertainty that comes with not knowing...
Against Diversity
In the last few days, two academic conferences were criticized for not being sufficiently “diverse.” A conference to empower women and train them for leadership was cancelled by St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, because, according to university...
Official Racism in Our Universities
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Martin Luther King, Jr.[1] History is replete with people being treated according to their...
Study highlights need to unify public and private in conservation
A study released by Reed Watson, a research fellow with the Montana-based Property and Environment Research Center, correctly identifies the problem of conservation. The full study can be accessed here. That problem being the so-called split wildlife estate where...
Those Nasty Teachers
In the USA, their pension fund destroys jobs.
Cutting Tax Expenditures
In this article looking at tax expenditures, there are some interesting ideas that merit some discussion.
Canada’s Downward Path From Nation To Fiction
The population of Quebec will shrink to barely one-fifth of Canada’s by 2031 – implying, according to economist Brian Lee Crowley in an important new book, “a big drop in the province’s relative weight in the House of Commons.” In fact, he calculates, Quebec’s influence will fall from 75 out of 308 MPs to 75 out of 375. The political implications would be profound.
Bogeymen Of The C02 Hoax Losing Ground
We’re close to the point where the public and politicians realize they have been totally deceived about the nature and cause of climate change.