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  • March 12, 2023

    The muddling gambit of a special rapporteur

    It is not that there is a flaw in Trudeau’s proposal. It’s deliberate. In keeping with natural justice, one ought not  be judge in one’s own cause, and one ought not choose a special individual, much less create a new position outside of the existing investigating officers in law enforcement, to investigate one’s misdeeds. It…

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie Property and Civil Rights
    Continue Reading →: The muddling gambit of a special rapporteur
  • March 4, 2023

    The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic

    Excerpt from Chapter 7, “The Democratic Politics of Fear,” in the newly expanded  book: Canada’s COVID: The Story of a […]

    Column Health and Social Policy Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic
  • January 24, 2023

    A “Just Transition” for the CBC

    The influence of traditional print and broadcast news media has dropped dramatically. Even with handsome government handouts, many of them […]

    Column Economy and Economic Development Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: A “Just Transition” for the CBC
  • January 16, 2023

    No justice for West in “Just Transition”

    The “Just Transition” legislation that Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh want to introduce represents terrible news for hydrocarbon energy producers […]

    Column Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: No justice for West in “Just Transition”
  • November 30, 2022

    Great COVID gaslight is under way

    The Great COVID Gaslighting is underway. I will leave it to historians to determine when and who precisely launched it, […]

    Column Health and Social Policy Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Great COVID gaslight is under way
  • October 28, 2022

    Notley is still in denial over mandatory vaccination

    Following a question at her first press conference as premier, Danielle Smith expressed sympathies for unvaccinated Canadians who were persecuted […]

    Column Health and Social Policy Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Notley is still in denial over mandatory vaccination
  • October 5, 2022

    Crisis politics are stormy politics: An evaluation of the Kenney Years

    In a crisis, compromise can become vice because it can quickly turn into indecision when people expect resolve. Crisis demands decisiveness, not zigzagging or reversals.

    Column Health and Social Policy Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Crisis politics are stormy politics: An evaluation of the Kenney Years
  • September 24, 2022

    Shandro gun announcement shows how Sovereignty works

    In mid September (2022), Premier Jason Kenney openly disagreed with UCP leadership hopeful Danielle Smith over Smith’s proposed Alberta Sovereignty […]

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie Property and Civil Rights Public Finance and Fiscal Federalism
    Continue Reading →: Shandro gun announcement shows how Sovereignty works
  • September 22, 2022

    London visit, a study in disrespect

    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had one job to do. On behalf of Canada, he had to go to London to […]

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: London visit, a study in disrespect
  • April 19, 2022

    Betting on WTI is a Short-term Strings Attached Solution

    The Alberta government stopped collecting the fuel tax at the beginning of April in an effort to provide “real relief” […]

    Column Economy and Economic Development Gerard A. Lucyshyn
    Continue Reading →: Betting on WTI is a Short-term Strings Attached Solution
  • April 10, 2022

    How Long Will Investor Confidence Last?

    The International Transactions in Securities monthly report covers transactions in stocks, bonds, and money market securities between non-residents and residents […]

    Column Economy and Economic Development Gerard A. Lucyshyn
    Continue Reading →: How Long Will Investor Confidence Last?
  • April 7, 2022

    How Did COVID-19 Impact the Canadian Manufacturing Sector?

    Consumers usually realize fairly quickly just how important the manufacturing sector is when they stare at empty shelves while shopping. […]

    Column Economy and Economic Development Gerard A. Lucyshyn
    Continue Reading →: How Did COVID-19 Impact the Canadian Manufacturing Sector?
  • April 4, 2022

    Mayor Gondek is author of her own unpopularity

    Recent ThinkHQ opinion polling shows Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek to be very unpopular.  It is unusual to see such unpopularity […]

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie Municipalities and Public Lands
    Continue Reading →: Mayor Gondek is author of her own unpopularity
  • February 8, 2022

    Trudeau underestimates the Truckers’ Convoy and its significance

    the Trudeau government kicked a hornet’s nest when the prime minister began a trend of insults against those resisting his vaccine policies during the last election campaign.  Trudeau mistook his return to a minority government as an unconditional endorsement to abuse vaccine skeptics.

    Publication
    Continue Reading →: Trudeau underestimates the Truckers’ Convoy and its significance
  • January 24, 2022

    Are Your Occupational Skills Up to Muster?

    Over half of all employed Canadians (52.7%) are working in occupations that value and require active learning skills. “Active learning” […]

    Column Economy and Economic Development Gerard A. Lucyshyn
    Continue Reading →: Are Your Occupational Skills Up to Muster?
  • January 10, 2022

    Brace Yourself for Inflation

    Inflation, simply put, is the overall decline in the value of money. As prices increase the less each dollar is […]

    Column Economy and Economic Development Gerard A. Lucyshyn
    Continue Reading →: Brace Yourself for Inflation
  • January 4, 2022

    Trudeau’s latest attacks upon the unvaccinated solve nothing

    The jab, Trudeau unimaginatively still claims, “is the only way out.” But in today’s fast-evolving viral environment, that’s yesterday’s thinking.

    Publication
    Continue Reading →: Trudeau’s latest attacks upon the unvaccinated solve nothing
  • December 5, 2021

    Are the Pawlowski Brothers on the Wrong Side of History?

    In accusing Pawlowski of being on the wrong side of something, Justice Adam Germain tacitly claimed knowledge of the right side. Do science and history have categorical right sides?

    Column Health and Social Policy Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Are the Pawlowski Brothers on the Wrong Side of History?
  • November 29, 2021

    Breaking the Covid Spell

    Douglas Farrow argues that the academy has failed the society that it supposedly serves. It has failed to ask questions and happily exalts the robes of naked health authorities.

    Column Douglas Farrow Education and Training
    Continue Reading →: Breaking the Covid Spell
  • November 19, 2021

    Demand Fairness from Ottawa and from Edmonton

    Albertans would not be further ahead by reducing federal equalization inequities without removing the home-grown liabilities of rampant provincial government spending.

    Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Demand Fairness from Ottawa and from Edmonton
  • October 28, 2021

    Touted Climate Emergency Seems Deceitful and Undemocratic

    Announcing one’s top priority after the election is manipulatively undemocratic. The unstated subtext is that Calgarians need not bother debating the climate emergency Gondek wants to impose on them. She knows what’s best for Calgarians. Even before taking the oath of office, the new mayor gave herself the authority to declare war on the city’s…

    Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Touted Climate Emergency Seems Deceitful and Undemocratic
  • October 22, 2021

    Trust Is the Foundation of Authority, and Governments Are Losing Both

    In the first week of October alone, the executive, the judicial and the medical bureaucracy failed Albertans again. The torqued blaming and punishing of the unvaxxed, Justice Germain’s offensive decision compelling speech to preacher Pawlowsky, and the naked attempt to manipulate the tragic death of young Nathanael Spitzer are all bold demonstrations of power still…

    Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Trust Is the Foundation of Authority, and Governments Are Losing Both
  • October 19, 2021

    Land of Coercion, 3

    My point is, extrapolating from the attitudes and acrimony expressed nowadays, further stoked by our authorities’ inflammatory rhetoric and restrictive policies, I am no longer so confident that some number of Canadians wouldn’t be okay with it if the worst-case interpretation were true—especially should breakthrough cases spike or new variants emerge.

    Travis Smith
    Continue Reading →: Land of Coercion, 3
  • October 18, 2021

    Land of Coercion, 2

    People clamoured for and embraced the certificates or passports while still making fun of conspiracy theorists, apparently unaware of or indifferent to the fact that these technologies were literally the lynchpin of many conspiracy theories that long claimed that the pandemic was part of a plot to usher in the surveillance state and worse. I…

    Travis Smith
    Continue Reading →: Land of Coercion, 2
  • October 17, 2021

    Land of Coercion, 1

    We all remember being told that the vaccines would grant us immunity, don’t we? Plenty of simplified pictorials and condescending cartoons told us so. “And now you’re immune!” People proudly declared that they took the shot to protect other people, adopting Facebook badges that smugly boasted “You’re Welcome!”

    Travis Smith
    Continue Reading →: Land of Coercion, 1
  • October 9, 2021

    Trudeau’s Small Gestures Speak Louder than His Great Deeds

    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may be using Indigenous Canadians as human props to get their votes, and the votes of Canadians for whom better treatment of Indigenous people is important.

    Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Trudeau’s Small Gestures Speak Louder than His Great Deeds
  • September 26, 2021

    Do Harsher Restrictions Save Lives?

    …for all that is being said about Alberta today, infected Albertans have so far survived COVID-19 at three times the rate of Quebeckers, and nearly at twice the rate of the average Canadian.

    Column Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: Do Harsher Restrictions Save Lives?
  • September 23, 2021

    The Endemic Path Is the Way Out

    It is not people declining vaccination who are putting us in the gravest danger. It’s those who, perhaps fewer in numbers, continue to dream of, and push for, a global eradication of SARS-CoV-2. They drive the policies that subject us to lockdown cycles. They are far more dangerous than the virus itself.

    Marco Navarro-Génie
    Continue Reading →: The Endemic Path Is the Way Out
  • September 8, 2021

    A Note to Mr. Kenney on His Erratic Driving

    Summer arrived and the inmates of Alberta’s province-wide quarantine camp soon received back from your government a few of their rights in the form of temporary privileges, though you did not call them that in your Open for Summer program.  Autumn is barely upon us and those privileges are already being withdrawn.

    Column Douglas Farrow
    Continue Reading →: A Note to Mr. Kenney on His Erratic Driving
  • July 27, 2021

    Is the Fractured Conservative Party Ready for an Election?

    The conservative movement is fractured, to say the least. Brokerage, pragmatism, regionalism and old party cleavages have left the conservative intellect lost in the proverbial forest. Let’s heed the lessons of the past and not blame the usual suspects should the CPC fail to deliver voter growth in the next election.

    Column Sara MacIntyre
    Continue Reading →: Is the Fractured Conservative Party Ready for an Election?
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