The False Spiral of Need – Vaccines in the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Government of Canada and the official medical advisory groups are, once again, recommending the immediate need for more doses of both the existing COVID-19 vaccines and the new Omicron tailored vaccines, as the SARS CoV-2 virus continues to rapidly evolve, mutate,...
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Would You Drink This Water?
When one ponders the crisis so many First Nations communities are facing with the quality of water, one can’t help but think of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” The ironic dilemma of the...
Emergency Room Madness
Literal delirium is a potential consequence of waiting too long in an emergency room. Unfortunately, the chances of that happening in Canada have never been greater. The Canadian Institute for Health released a report in January that showed the average wait time in an...
Ideologues are Often at the Ready to Profit from Crises
When professors around the country were busy figuring ways to deliver their classes online, two faculty members at the University of Alberta wrote a letter and enlisted the endorsement of some 200 of their leisured colleagues at 33 universities in Canada. A crisis...
Politics and the 2020 Plague
The Great Plague of 2020, like other disasters before it, has brought forth moves by governments to implement emergency powers that would not have been allowed to the ruler in normal times. Across the United States, governors have triggered clauses that grant them...
Just Delaying the Inevitable?
We are in lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Schools are emptied and businesses deemed non-essential closed. We must know that we are saddling the next generation with crushing debt and enormous social costs. The rationale is by social distancing measures...
Taxes Cost More Than You Think
Amidst the pandemic, the federal government has just given Canadians an extra month to file their taxes (the new deadline is June 1). As people prepare their tax returns, some might wonder if they are getting good value for all the taxes they pay. The answer is that...
Canadian Senator Promotes Climate Realism in Major Speech
March 14, 2012: Sensible, no regrets approach to climate change promoted by British Columbia Senator Nancy Greene-Raine in her speech before the Canadian Senate (March 13).
Alberta’s Bill 2 would have Dante’s Divine Comedy banned too!
A diversity clause in section 16 of the Education Act of Alberta has many Alberta parents worried that the dreaded human rights commissions will crush their ability to provide their children with better content and greater values than those offered in the cookie-cutter, government-dictated curriculum.
Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk seems to think that homeschooling parents are against human rights in opposing the bill, which misses the point. The point is that a diversity code policed by the Human Rights Commission would clash with and ravage an enriched curriculum of education.
Here is a real-life European example of precisely how it will likely happen.
According to Gherush 92, an European human rights organization that acts as a consultant to UN bodies on racism and discrimination, Dante’s Divine Comedy should be removed from schools and universities on account that the Medieval masterpiece is “racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic.”
You read that right. Even for university students! Dante’s Divine Comedy is one of the greatest works of western civilization.
Dante’s epic is “offensive and discriminatory” and has no place in a modern classroom, said Valentina Sereni, the group’s president.
Go West, Young Man or Woman
After all, the migration of young people is particularly driven by the labour market, said Serge Coulombe, an economics professor at the University of Ottawa. They also have less to lose and more to gain.
Aging Opportunity
Did you know that Saskatchewan has significantly more government employees than all other province in Canada? This glut of government employees means taxpayers are paying a small bundle each year. Fortunately, the solution is fairly pain free for politicians – as bureaucrats retire, don’t rehire.
CD Howe on OAS Changes
I tend to agree with the recommendations of the CD Howe institute. The government should look at alternatives to simply raising the age of eligibility.
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