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Continue Reading →: Brace Yourself for Inflation
Brace Yourself for Inflation
Inflation, simply put, is the overall decline in the value of money. As prices increase the less each dollar is […]
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Continue Reading →: Trudeau’s latest attacks upon the unvaccinated solve nothing
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.
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Continue Reading →: Are the Pawlowski Brothers on the Wrong Side of History?
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?
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Continue Reading →: Breaking the Covid Spell
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.
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Continue Reading →: Demand Fairness from Ottawa and from Edmonton
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.
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Continue Reading →: Touted Climate Emergency Seems Deceitful and Undemocratic
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…
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Continue Reading →: Trust Is the Foundation of Authority, and Governments Are Losing Both
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…
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Continue Reading →: Land of Coercion, 3
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.
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Continue Reading →: Land of Coercion, 2
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…
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Continue Reading →: Land of Coercion, 1
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!”
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Continue Reading →: Trudeau’s Small Gestures Speak Louder than His Great Deeds
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.
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Continue Reading →: Do Harsher Restrictions Save Lives?
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.
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Continue Reading →: The Endemic Path Is the Way Out
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.
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Continue Reading →: A Note to Mr. Kenney on His Erratic Driving
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.
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Continue Reading →: Is the Fractured Conservative Party Ready for an Election?
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.
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Continue Reading →: In Disrespecting Public Officials, We Disrespect Ourselves
In Disrespecting Public Officials, We Disrespect Ourselves
People will disagree with public officials and their decisions. In a democratic arrangement, there is an expectation that people will address their differences respectfully, and even in friendship. Frederick Haultain, the founder of Alberta and Saskatchewan, was notorious for his kind and respectful ways. Unlike our contemporary crop of leaders, he never insulted even his…
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Continue Reading →: Truth Is the Road to Reconciliation
Truth Is the Road to Reconciliation
For generations now, successive federal governments have made promises without delivering. For all the inflated rhetoric, even the present federal government has been incapable of permanently delivering potable water to so many Indigenous children. Worse still, not that long ago, Prime Minister Trudeau openly mocked Aboriginal women at a Liberal Party fundraiser in Toronto when…
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Continue Reading →: Kananaskis User Fees Are Inappropriate
Kananaskis User Fees Are Inappropriate
There are two strong reasons for the costs of increased usage of the Kananaskis wilderness areas to be shouldered by the healthcare budget. It is a health matter. Physical activity and social interaction are salutary for Albertans coping with the economic and psychological hardships imposed by their government. Second, a pricing mechanism is wrong because…
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Continue Reading →: A Modest Re-Charge: Transformative Post-COVID Economic Recovery for Canada
A Modest Re-Charge: Transformative Post-COVID Economic Recovery for Canada
Canadians need to reject the political scheme of a Great Reset and any other grand scheme that seek to transform the country. The post-COVID-19 recovery needs to grow the economy. It is time to free our entrepreneurs of the mercantilistic shackles and unleash their power to create, grow and hire.
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Continue Reading →: Premier Kenney Places Albertans “Beyond the Pale”
Premier Kenney Places Albertans “Beyond the Pale”
One would think that citizens whose lives are being hurt by their own government policies would receive sympathy and compassion. But instead, those suffering outside the medical tutelage of Alberta Health are disparaged as “unhinged conspiracy theorists.”
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Continue Reading →: Premier Kenney May Be Down, but He’s Not Out
Premier Kenney May Be Down, but He’s Not Out
Premier Kenney may be in trouble, if one believes in the recent polls, but don’t count him out.
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Continue Reading →: It All Began in China
It All Began in China
Book Excerpt (published in The Epoch Times) From COVID-19: The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic Timelines associated with the […]
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Continue Reading →: Two Pandemics Are More Frightful than One
Two Pandemics Are More Frightful than One
This week marked the anniversary of the COVID-19 confinements that were only supposed to last for a few weeks. That […]
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Continue Reading →: Joe Biden Has Killed the Alberta-51 Option
Joe Biden Has Killed the Alberta-51 Option
About a third of Albertans steadily favour breaking away from Canada. That number has recently been as high as 50 […]
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Continue Reading →: Computer Modelers Are Still Driving the COVID-19 Fear Wagon
Computer Modelers Are Still Driving the COVID-19 Fear Wagon
Renewed calls for prolonged lockdowns to deal with the new SARS-CoV-2 mutations are wrong headed. It has been a year […]
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Continue Reading →: Skills Matter, Not Where You Are From
Skills Matter, Not Where You Are From
There is wisdom in the long-standing advice about offering unsolicited advice, which is independent of whether the advice given is […]
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Continue Reading →: Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Is Political Clamoring Helpful or Harmful?
Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Is Political Clamoring Helpful or Harmful?
Caught between a rock and a hard place. This best sums up the position that the UCP government recently found […]
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Continue Reading →: NEW BOOK! COVID-19 The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic
NEW BOOK! COVID-19 The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic
COVID-19 The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic explores the political and social responses that have been tributary to the […]
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Continue Reading →: It’s Time to End the Politics of Panic
It’s Time to End the Politics of Panic
Seven months since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, against evidence and common sense, media, elected officials and health experts continue […]
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Continue Reading →: ‘Second Wave’ Fears Further Threaten Civil Liberties
‘Second Wave’ Fears Further Threaten Civil Liberties
On September 18, Israel relocked down the country for the following three weeks, becoming the first developed country to shut […]