Based on testimony heard and staff research, the Commission on the Ukraine Famine makes the following findings: 1) There is no doubt that large numbers of inhabitants of the Ukrainian SSR and the North Caucasus Territory starved to death in …
Holding Back Populists in Canada and Europe
The failure of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC) to win a single seat was, to me, the most surprising revelation of the last federal election. The writing was on the wall for Trudeau, and the Conservatives were going to …
Social Justice & Caesarism
Don Cherry has now left the scene. After decades of entertaining hockey fans, it was two words – “You people” – that did him in. Although he later said he meant to say “Everyone”, judgement was swift and the execution …
Do You Really Support the Crown?
Public support for the Monarchy in Canada is lower than in the United Kingdom, but the Queen’s reign isn’t over yet, and there is no real reason to believe that Prince Charles will not become the next Head of State. …
The Struggle for Free Speech on Canadian Campuses
Free speech is under siege on many university campuses, including right here in Canada. Professors, administrators, and students are “deplatforming” invited guests or disrupting and disparaging their fellow academics who fail to toe the politically correct party line. Commonly understood, …
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 …
Word of the Day: Jacobin
In the summer and autumn of 1789, the French National Assembly overturned a thousand years of law and custom to produce a modern constitutional democracy. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen spelled out all the new conditions …
Who Are We?
Society has become obsessed with identity. I am old enough to remember when there was only one channel on the television and just two sexes. Humans came packaged as either male or female and vive la différence! Now I am …
Nike, Kaepernick and Looming Tribal Warfare
Today, many people, in the U.S., Canada, and the rest of the West, have rejected liberal democracy in favor of “woke” identity politics and cultural Marxist “social justice.” Following the Marxist vision of society as a division of classes, with …