Israel is currently locked in an intense struggle between conservatives and progressives over the Netanyahu government’s judicial reform plans. As it now stands, the top court can strike down any law that it considers to be “unreasonable”. Those judges are all...
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What They Did To The Children
Children, as any parent knows, are not small adults. Their brains are growing and being acutely shaped by their environment and experiences. Social skills and values are learnt from those around them, with teamwork, risk-management, personal boundaries, and tolerance...
Cowering Before ‘Carbon’
Right now South Dakota is under attack by a freshly born green corporation, Summit Carbon Solutions, funded by China’s Belt and Road initiative, and you, through the Green New Deal provisions buried in the last debt ceiling deal, to pipe “carbon,” from the oil fields...
Meritocracy Or Mediocrity – Canada Must Choose
In “Civilization - The West and the Rest” historian Niall Ferguson asks why, from about 1500 AD, the West was able to rise from being a backwater of illiterate, unhygienic bumpkins to become the greatest civilization the world had ever seen. He suggests an answer: the...
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What Exactly Does ‘Climate Justice’ Mean?
It seems like everything is about justice these days. Recently, as I drove home from the store, I saw a sign for the elections here in New York from the local Democratic Party, promising “equity, equality, and justice for all.” Beyond the obvious concerns any sane...
We are Finding the 2800 Missing Children
The “secret graves” and “missing children” narrative had our national flag flying at half-mast for over five months after an obscure indigenous politician made the startling claim that she “knew” that 215 indigenous children had been secretly buried in the “apple...
2021 Edition of Demographia International Housing Affordability
How Affordable is Housing in Your City? 2021 Edition of Demographia International Housing Affordability CANADA, February 22, 2021 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released the 2021 edition of Demographia International Housing Affordability. The survey...
What to Do with a Pirate State
For centuries, Arab states across North Africa made fortunes from piracy. Raiding the coasts of Spain and Italy, scouring the Mediterranean, and ravaging into the Atlantic as far as Iceland, Barbary corsairs captured over a million Christian prisoners for their slave...
A Short History of Censorship
Censorship is typically considered to be the removal or blocking of information, speech, or expression. It includes self-censorship, which is when individuals or organizations limit what they say for fear of repercussions. Historically, repressive governments have...
Green New Deal Ideologies, Fantasies, and Realities
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic Party, and U.S. environmentalists are committed to making climate change, the Green New Deal (GND), and replacement of fossil fuels with wind, solar, battery, and biofuel power, the centrepiece of...
Four Measures to Kick-Start the Canadian Economy
Social engineers are eager for Canadians to buy into the same madness touted across the globe for post-pandemic recovery: more government spending. Now is precisely when technocrats must take a back seat and let markets take the wheel. On November 30, the minister of...
Post Modern Society: The Icarus Complex
There is a tear in society, a gap, a chasm that is growing and contributing to the wounding of the social fabric of societies almost everywhere. Those on either side of the chasm are barely able to touch one another, to understand the worldviews from the other side,...
As the Oil and Gas Industry Suffers Secular Decline, TD’s Arctic Virtue Signaling is Irrelevant
In recent days, Toronto Dominion Bank announced that it will not loan money towards any oil and gas or related development in the Arctic. While this may elicit joy from the woke anti-fossil fuel global warmists, this was, in reality, a very easy decision for TD, and...
Bidenomics: A Freer Trade Policy with Canada Under President Biden? Not So Sure.
If the USA's current electoral situation is still in turmoil, the Biden presidency seems to act. With the return of the democrats at the White House, there will be changes in the US foreign policy. Canada, as the third US trade partner, will be impacted. The Trump...
Why Canada Does Not Need a National Cryptocurrency
Among the many races the pandemic has accelerated, none is so pointless as the issuance of central-bank digital currencies (CBDC). The Canadian government, which should know better, has jumped into the fray against its own earlier opinion. Reversing comments made in...