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Biases in the Media

Biases in the Media

A recent Gallup poll in the United States revealed that while 62% of Democratic party voters trusted the media, only 14% of Republicans believed that the media could be relied on to get the facts straight. Is there really bias in the news and public affairs media? Is...

The Real Realities of Canadian Medicare

The Real Realities of Canadian Medicare

As the title suggests, an article in The American Prospect What Medicare for All Really Looks Like, claims to describe the realities of Canadian medicare to our southern neighbours. So, it is both ironic – and disappointing – that a careful reading reveals it to be...

Real Help for Indigenous Youth

Real Help for Indigenous Youth

Last week there was yet another “round dance” held at Portage and Main, this one was in support of the “hereditary chiefs” of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation blocking authorized construction of a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia. In spite of a court...

Collectivism Kills Charity

Collectivism Kills Charity

“God giveth and the government taketh away,” goes the old, wry saying. God aside, it is people who won't or can't give when the government takes away. A recent survey of generosity in the United States and Canada gives even more proof. The more centralist and...

Pacific Nations

It should be both a national economic and national security priority to expand our ability to supply energy to our trading partners in those regions.

Obama Abandons (Private) Labor: The Keystone decision is a signal to blue-collar workers that this is no longer their fathers’ Democratic Party.

The decision by the Obama administration to “delay” building the Keystone XL pipeline is a watershed moment in American politics. The implication of a policy choice rarely gets more stark than this. Put simply: Why should any blue-collar worker who isn’t hooked for life to a public budget vote for Barack Obama next year?