The word “radiation” conjures up images of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima or the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Our society has a strong, and not unreasonable, fear of nuclear radiation, that has been built up over years of stories. Starting with...
There has been tremendous scrutiny and criticism of policing in recent months. Policing has been the lightning rod for widespread protests, a window into the failings of systemic processes and structures that have sustained otherization and marginalization, and...
If you wonder how the social justice war is going, look no further than the University of Michigan-Dearborn. There, in the “diversity, equity and inclusion” activism that has all but replaced education in too many of our institutions of higher learning, the...
Many parents are frustrated by the limited educational choices their children have right now. For example, a recent article in the Calgary Herald (Ferguson, “Parents regretting in-person classes with no options to go online”), suggests that parents are concerned...
We are spending double the amount of time on our streaming platforms compared to last year, close to 45.4 billion minutes spent on Netflix alone in the first few weeks of March 2020. Movie titles such as: 28 Weeks Later (2007), Quarantine (2008), Carriers (2009), and...
In his paper “Successful Integration Experiences From Around the World”, Joseph Quesnel examines the response of three diverse countries to the economic and social challenges facing their Indigenous populations: Mexico with its Meso-American peoples, the Japanese with...
Powerpoint slides from Lunch on Frontier with Historical Climatologist Dr. Tim Ball, January 26th, 2007 in Winnipeg.
PowerPoint slides from Winnipeg Breakfast on the Frontier speech on PowerSmart Electricity Pricing by Professor Peter Miller, January 18, 2007
Few people realize the conflict of interests held by the prominent proponents of man-made climate change.
We were warned that private clinics were the work of the devil but, now that they’re here, we’re accommodating them quite nicely.
In Demographia’s third annual survey of housing affordability, the City of Regina, Saskatchewan, scored the best in the world. Canada’s other cities covered a wide range, from “affordable” to “severely unaffordable.”
The 3rd Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey expands coverage to 159 major markets in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
It’s bad enough that native leaders pursue exemptions from smoking bans and encourage their people to smoke in band enterprises; but they add insult to injury when they rip off the tax rebates that individual Indians used to enjoy.
Five questions with Houston-based Trendmaker Homes’ President Will Holder about his thoughts on the property market in Houston.
Many farmers with limited production capacity do not realize the extent to which global trade has changed the way Canada should position itself within world markets.