Doug Cuthand, a columnist who writes on Indigenous issues for the Saskatoon Star-Pheonix, once wrote a piece that apparently bothered many non-Indigenous readers, excoriate as it did the treatment of First Nations people by “white” society. Among other things, he...
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The Campus Tendency to Extremism
There is a common cultural dynamic in which competition among members of a social or political movement for the prestige of ideological purity and group leadership leads to more and more extreme substantive positions. Examples are countless: Christianity, based on a...
Woke Capitalism Is a Sign of Things to Come
No one ever had trouble finding examples of corporate hypocrisy. Recent months seem to have brought a bounty. The same companies who submit to Chinese authorities have no problem resisting American ones. Corporations threaten boycotts against states whose legislatures...
Where Does the Impulse to Vilify America and the West Come From?
When I first took up my teaching post in 1968, a bright undergraduate said to me, “North American culture is the most corrupt in the world.” I was rather shocked to hear this, having just returned from a year of ethnographic research in the Middle East, where arguably...
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First the Infrastructure Bank, Then TransMountain, Now Air Canada; Soon, Maybe Anything, Anytime
In early April, the federal government of Canada announced that it would support Air Canada through the rest of the pandemic lockdown-induced drastic decline in air travel with a combination of loans, and, in a return to its previous status as a stratospheric ward of...
Leave Our Dreams Alone
By 2030, could an agency record everything we dream? Danish MP Ida Auken thought so. In her 2016 blog post on the World Economic Forum’s website and republished by Forbes, “Welcome to 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy and Life Has Never Been Better,” Auken...
If you want to Succeed, Follow Us Down Under
For so long simply seen as an adventure playground for gap year students or a breeding ground for sportsmen, Australia has now graduated into the world of big players.
Ottawa still isn’t planning the reforms that matter
Alas, go outside and put on a jacket; in addition to the approaching winter, you’ll also sense the approaching silly season of electioneering.
Angus McBeath, Superintendent, Edmonton Public School Board
A dedicated teacher and ground-breaking school administrator discusses his success in Edmonton, and the elements of high-performing schools.
Moving the Modern Socialist Agenda Forward
A New Zealand political operative describes his history with that country’s Labour Party, and why they adapted traditional socialism to accomodate a free market philosophy.
Alberta Must Prepare for Federal Attack
The Alberta government should immediately put before the federation a formal constitutional amendment to severely restrict federal taxation and transfers.
Does ‘Peak Oil’ mean an end to the suburbs?
When fuel prices rise, people reduce other auto expenses in order to keep total costs (as a percentage of their incomes) constant. They may keep their cars a little longer, for example, or buy less luxurious cars.
Fretting over a U.S. decline? Fear not
OTTAWA -- In the 1960s, it was Germany. In the 1980s, Japan. Throughout the postwar years, until the 1990s, it was the Soviet Union. Now it's China. A devastated nation starts from nothing, introduces market-economy reforms, goes to double-digit growth -- and people...
Free to Drive
It’s no accident that bus and subway riders are mostly young and poor. They take public transit not because it’s the better way, but because they can’t afford to drive. The moment they get a little older and a little better off, they move to the suburbs and buy a car.
Jurassic Twilight – Farm Monopolists
DINOSAURS live. Two have been roaming the Canadian prairies and parts of Australia, respectively, for decades, and are still at it: the two countries' legally enforced wheat-export monopolies. But till when? American farmers think it is time they were extinct. They...