The “climate crusade” is one characterized by true believers, opportunists, cynics, money-hungry governments, manipulators of various types—even children’s crusades—all based on contested science and dubious claims.
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Truth or Consequences: Your Call, Saint John
Sometimes when I want to get a snapshot of what the people are thinking, I go to the newspaper’s online site. At the top of the list, both in terms of most read and most commented, was “Pothole Pandemonium” (Feb. 18) with 33 comments mostly critical of the condition of our streets with literally hundreds of thumbs-up. However, one particular comment unrelated to the public’s growing disenchantment with the condition of our streets caught my attention.
Truth and Reality Exiting Stage Left
“When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.” Mark Twain’s comment helps me understand the absolute contradictions presented as truth, sense and reality. Consider just a short list: Warming is causing global cooling. The...
Chaotic World of Climate Truth
As activists organised by the group Stop Climate Chaos gather in London to demand action, one of Britain’s top climate scientists says the language of chaos and catastrophe has got out of hand.
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Weaponizing the Law
The indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump for crimes invented by his political opponents is the most egregious example yet seen of the weaponizing of the law. The United States is now full of examples. However, in Canada, we also see the law being...
“Looking At” Seizing Control Over Western Canada’s Natural Resources
OTTAWA, REGINA - Last week, two things happened that could have profound impacts on natural resources development in Saskatchewan. One is a hint the federal government might want to take control of natural resources away from the provinces, and the other is the...
There are no Indian Residential School Denialists, so Why Criminalize Them?
In a recent Canadian Press story, Kimberly Murray, the government’s special interlocutor on unmarked graves of missing Indigenous children from residential schools, is reported as saying: “We could … make it an offense to incite hate and promote hate against...
A Review of: Lonely Death of an Ojibway Boy by Robert MacBain
What should reasonable people do when schoolchildren are told things that are untrue about Canadian history?
1967 versus 2023
Symposium – Reviewing the 1867 Project (1 of 3)
What’s the Solution to the Cultural War in Schools?
The cultural war has been in full bloom in U.S. education for at least five years. Now it has spread to public schools in Canada. This war pits left-leaning liberal teachers, administrators, parents, and school board trustees against right-leaning conservatives. The...
More Balance Needed on Personal Care Homes
Tom Brodbeck’s opinion essays (Winnipeg Free Press, July 28, 2023), rightly points out that in Winnipeg, at least, there has been “a breakdown of accountability measures to monitor the mistreatment” of residents of personal-care homes. Obviously, the physical and...
Western Standard: Candid Conrad Black Charms Winnipeg
Three hundred people filled the RBC Convention Centre in Winnipeg to hear Lord Conrad Black speak his mind. Black told the Winnipeg crowd his parents lived in Winnipeg until the second World War and he still has first cousins living there. “I know it’s not my city,...
Return to Reason Podcast – Brian Giesbrecht: Political Interference Part of Missing Children Narrative
Leon Fontaine sits down with retired chief judge, Brian Giesbrecht, to discuss how political interference and a lack of investigative journalism has skewed the narrative on the unmarked graves at residential schools across Canada. Giesbrecht shares what his research...
Victimhood Sells – South Africa’s TRC
The Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission was styled after the South African Commission which was the first commission ever established to sort through claims and counter-claims in an attempt to get at the Truth. The South African TRC was established in 1996 by...
Indigenous Women and Canadian Institutions
As you read the title of this article, your mind probably flashes to a few negative media stories. Perhaps you think of a young Indigenous woman’s bad experience with a Winnipeg taxi driver. Or you think of Joyce Echaquan’s suffering and death in a Quebec hospital and...