General George S. Patton once proclaimed, “Fear kills more people than death!” That makes as much sense (or not) as something Yogi Berra said: “No one goes to that restaurant anymore; it’s too crowded.” These days no one goes to the restaurant because the government...
Finally on March 31, our Prime Minister announced that Canada will spend $2 billion to procure diagnostic test kits, ventilators, and the personal protective equipment (masks, face shields, gloves, gowns) that frontline healthcare workers require to carry out their...
They called it the Spanish Lady and it was a killer. In March 1918, in the fourth year of a war in which the Allies were in retreat from a German onslaught, a new and horrible disease landed on the shores of eastern North America. The killer was a new strain of...
While the benighted residents of the world are having to deal with the restrictions imposed on them to minimize chances of transmission of the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19, many of them may be wondering how we got to such a predicament – where millions...
If you visit the website of any Canadian teachers’ union, you might think that all teachers reside on the far left of the political spectrum. For example, the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) is not shy about taking left-leaning stands on controversial...
Recently, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe urged his citizens to get vaccinated in a three-minute plea filled with dubious claims and faulty logic. It’s irksome that any executive assistant or speechwriter got paid to compose such nonsense. Moe said: “Those who have...
American economist Indur Goklany has collected in one volume the long-term trends in the most significant indicators of human and environmental well-being.
The federal Minister of Agriculture told the Canadian Wheat Board to stick to its job and stay out of grain politics. If the Board chooses to interfere anyway, couldn’t it at least get its facts straight?
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Two years after a court decision that said laws outlawing the use of private insurance for primary medical care were in violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, another case is wending its way through the courts in Alberta. How long will it take for this freedom to be restored to all Canadian consumers?
The Canadian Wheat Board maintains that its monopoly on marketing barley adds value to the crop. The author of the famous Sparks barley study begs to differ.
The level of misinformation grows daily and the hysteria intensifies. But rational voices are finally to beginning to cut through the propaganda and make themselves heard in an organized way.
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Canada’s most courageous global warming skeptic reviews the evidence on carbon dumping and climate change, and assesses the prospects for intelligent, fact-based climate science free of politicized charades.
Will government-funded plans be there when we need ’em? Many of us don’t think so . . .
Europeans have worked themselves into such a lather over “climate chaos” that they’ve set themselves up for a head-on collision between eco-ideology and economic reality.
Marlo Lewis’ reply to Al Gore’s movie, “An Inconvenient Truth”.