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COVIDiots

COVIDiots

Reaction to the major anti-lockdown rally on April 25 at The Forks has been swift and furious. Photos taken without permission by reporters have resulted in the public shaming, and even firing, of people who attended. Strident calls come for action against attendees...

The Marxist Playbook Hasn’t Changed

The Marxist Playbook Hasn’t Changed

“We will take America without firing a shot,” said Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of Soviet Russia from 1958 to 1964. The Soviet Union may have vanished, but old Marxist strategies are still being implemented. The 1969 lecture “More Deadly Than War: The Communist...

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Some Good News about Race

Some Good News about Race

We are often told that Canada and the U.S.A. are racist societies. Minority activists denounce white society and demand compensatory measures. Black Lives Matter in Canada declares that “Black Power Matters.” In the United States, Black Lives Matter campaign against...

Big Crimes and Little Crimes On Campus

Big Crimes and Little Crimes On Campus

I must confess to a crime. Many years ago, when I was still in my twenties, I was enjoying a late night non-alcoholic beverage with an old friend from my high school days. Our talk turned to the teachers we had had in our adolescence, some of whom we revered, some of...

Playgrounds for Elites

Playgrounds for Elites

The revival of America’s core cities is one of the most celebrated narratives of our time—yet, perhaps paradoxically, urban progress has also created a growing problem of increasing inequality and middle-class flight. Once exemplars of middle-class advancement, most...

Who Can Save Free Speech?

Who Can Save Free Speech?

The first amendment of the Constitution of the United States of American states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the...

Then They Came For the Teachers

Then They Came For the Teachers

Hymie Rubenstein and Rodney A. Clifton, January 3, 2017 “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.) That white,...

The Tale of Two Teachers

The Tale of Two Teachers

At L.A. Matheson, a high school in Surrey, B.C., a poster in Annie Ohana’s classroom suggests society is too moralistic about sex work, the quote coming from an avowed Satanist. National Post writer Jamie Sarkonak described her classroom in this way: “The walls are...