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Continue Reading →: Toward the Alberta Advantage
Toward the Alberta Advantage
Late in 1978 and early 1979, the Peter Lougheed government embarked on a mission to lower the “small business” income […]
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Continue Reading →: Rehabilitating the Charter of Rights
Rehabilitating the Charter of Rights
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms needs to be rehabilitated. The COVID-19 regime caused enormous damage to individual rights […]
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Continue Reading →: Canada-India Conflict Grows
Canada-India Conflict Grows
Canada-India tensions grew during the recent G20. But the bombshell Trudeau dropped yesterday in the House of Commons multiplied those […]
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Continue Reading →: Prime Minister Trudeau Tries to Apologize
Prime Minister Trudeau Tries to Apologize
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finally emerged from the shadows today to address the regrettable incident on the floor of the […]
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Continue Reading →: Canada Deserves Better Government: A Former Nazi is invited to the House of Commons
Canada Deserves Better Government: A Former Nazi is invited to the House of Commons
The Bible verse in Hebrews that inspired the motto for the Order of Canada has always resonated with me. In […]
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Continue Reading →: Grocers as Scapegoats for Trudeau’s Failed Economic Policies
Grocers as Scapegoats for Trudeau’s Failed Economic Policies
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s directive to force grocery stores to reset prices with the aim of stabilizing inflation appears to […]
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Continue Reading →: Personal Diplomacy Beyond Trudeau’s Skills: The Failed G20 Visit to India
Personal Diplomacy Beyond Trudeau’s Skills: The Failed G20 Visit to India
PM Justin Trudeau wasted a golden opportunity to work things out with India’s PM Narendra Modi at he G20
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Continue Reading →: Contrived Sexual Identities Erode the Natural Standard in the Parent-Child Relationship
Contrived Sexual Identities Erode the Natural Standard in the Parent-Child Relationship
The assertion that parents are inherently the primary educators of their children has stirred quite the debate, prompting a need […]
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Continue Reading →: Forest Fires and Empty Promises: Trudeau’s Climate Emergency
Forest Fires and Empty Promises: Trudeau’s Climate Emergency
It was two years ago this week, on August 18th, amidst a general election, that the Liberal Party of Canada […]
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Continue Reading →: Unpacking a ban on plastic waste packaging
Unpacking a ban on plastic waste packaging
Ottawa’s plan to eradicate plastic waste by 2030, led by Minister of the Environment Stephen Guilbeault, on its face seems […]
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Continue Reading →: Justin Trudeau is the Donald Trump of Canada’s Left
Justin Trudeau is the Donald Trump of Canada’s Left
Trudeau’s form of populism has been so deftly executed, media and his followers seem blissfully unaware of his striking similarities to Trump, and how closely the disposition of Trudeau’s followers mirror Trump’s own followers.
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Continue Reading →: Woke inclusion opens gates to exclusion and division
Woke inclusion opens gates to exclusion and division
Canada’s federal government has cheerfully proclaimed June to September to be Pride Season. Beyond the commonplace vulgarity in pride parades, one reasonably […]
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Continue Reading →: A smaller caucus presents Smith some advantages
A smaller caucus presents Smith some advantages
Despite reports and comments about the Alberta election results, Smith’s victory with a smaller caucus offers many advantages
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Continue Reading →: BUY our NEW BOOK! Canada’s COVID: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic
BUY our NEW BOOK! Canada’s COVID: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic
Our new book Canada’s COVID: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic is now on sale in electronic form at […]
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Continue Reading →: Ottawa has its national security priorities backward
Ottawa has its national security priorities backward
Canadians know very little of these exploited security weaknesses because the government regularly invokes national security to obstruct Parliament from asking questions and to cover up its mismanagement in security affairs.
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Continue Reading →: The muddling gambit of a special rapporteur
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…
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Continue Reading →: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic
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 […]
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Continue Reading →: A “Just Transition” for the CBC
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 […]
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Continue Reading →: No justice for West in “Just Transition”
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 […]
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Continue Reading →: Great COVID gaslight is under way
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, […]
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Continue Reading →: Notley is still in denial over mandatory vaccination
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 […]
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Continue Reading →: Crisis politics are stormy politics: An evaluation of the Kenney Years
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.
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Continue Reading →: Shandro gun announcement shows how Sovereignty works
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 […]
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Continue Reading →: London visit, a study in disrespect
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 […]
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Continue Reading →: Betting on WTI is a Short-term Strings Attached Solution
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” […]
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Continue Reading →: How Long Will Investor Confidence Last?
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 […]
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Continue Reading →: How Did COVID-19 Impact the Canadian Manufacturing Sector?
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. […]
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Continue Reading →: Mayor Gondek is author of her own unpopularity
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 […]
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Continue Reading →: Trudeau underestimates the Truckers’ Convoy and its significance
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.
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Continue Reading →: Are Your Occupational Skills Up to Muster?
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” […]