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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 […]
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Continue Reading →: The University of Calgary’s “Systemic Racism” Admission Is Virtue-Signaling at Its Worst
The University of Calgary’s “Systemic Racism” Admission Is Virtue-Signaling at Its Worst
The University of Calgary (UC) has admitted to being a systemically racist institution against blacks, indigenous people and other people […]
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Continue Reading →: Prime Minister Trudeau Has Eroded Canada’s Place in the World
Prime Minister Trudeau Has Eroded Canada’s Place in the World
Canada’s standing in the world has been eroded under Prime Minister Trudeau. Why would other countries support the new version of Canada on the world stage?
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Continue Reading →: The COVID-19 Regime Has Collapsed under Its Own Contradictions
The COVID-19 Regime Has Collapsed under Its Own Contradictions
The last few weeks have exposed schizophrenic aspects of Canadian culture and its influence on governments’ behaviour. The most palpable […]
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Continue Reading →: The Lockdown Failed Our Most Vulnerable
The Lockdown Failed Our Most Vulnerable
In the long-term, a variety of small-scale alternatives that uphold the dignity of residents as a high priority is the best way to atone for the current failures.
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Continue Reading →: We Can Learn from Sweden’s Achievement in Protecting Its Democratic Traditions
We Can Learn from Sweden’s Achievement in Protecting Its Democratic Traditions
Much ink has been assigned to Sweden for its distinct approach to COVID-19 among Western nations. As more jurisdictions wrestle […]
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Continue Reading →: Contextualizing the Cost of COVID: Will Canada Ever Pay it Off?
Contextualizing the Cost of COVID: Will Canada Ever Pay it Off?
It has become routine, every morning around 11:15 a.m. EDT thousands of Canadians gather around their television sets to hear the daily […]
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Continue Reading →: Think-Tank Influence
Think-Tank Influence
Think Tanks are organizations that come in a variety of forms and models, but their general goal is to generate ideas and data, arguments and imagery that will seed public debates, influence discourse. New options for policy; ways to do thing better.
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Continue Reading →: The Rise of Zombies in the Wake of COVID-19
The Rise of Zombies in the Wake of COVID-19
We are spending double the amount of time on our streaming platforms compared to last year, close to 45.4 billion minutes spent on Netflix […]
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Continue Reading →: Eco-ideologues at the Ready to Profit from Health Crisis
Eco-ideologues at the Ready to Profit from Health Crisis
Radical ideologues from the University of Alberta are prepared to inflict more pain and suffering upon Albertans in the oil industry for the sake of accelerating the advent of the pristine future they expect to arrive soon.
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Continue Reading →: Trudeau’s Failed Power Grab Is an Attack on Democracy
Trudeau’s Failed Power Grab Is an Attack on Democracy
The Trudeau government’s effort to transfer power temporarily from the House of Commons to the Office of the Finance Minister was an unconstitutional attempt to bypass the will of Canadians as expressed in the 2019 election.
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Continue Reading →: Three Elements Converge into a Perfect Economic Storm for Alberta
Three Elements Converge into a Perfect Economic Storm for Alberta
In the midst of a perfect triad of storms, Alberta should combat the COVID-19 pandemic as though there were no attempts to choke Alberta’s oil industry, and it must combat the attempts to choke Alberta’s oil industry as though there was no COVID-19.
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Continue Reading →: Laurentian Canada Determined to Kill Oil Sands Development
Laurentian Canada Determined to Kill Oil Sands Development
As predicted weeks ago, Albertans did not need to hold their breath for Ottawa’s approval of the Frontier oil sands […]
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Continue Reading →: Alberta’s Problem Isn’t Geography
Alberta’s Problem Isn’t Geography
Regressive and oppressive Iranian Shiite mullahs have proven to be more reasonable business counterparts than former World Wildlife Fund apparatchiks in Ottawa, populist nationalists in Quebec City, and the rigid eco-zealous alliance of Greens and New Democrats in Victoria. This is Alberta’s problem!
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Continue Reading →: Independence If Necessary … the Winning Conditions
Independence If Necessary … the Winning Conditions
Freedom Conference 2019 Where Do We Go From Here? Separation is not really the right language we want to use. […]
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Continue Reading →: Rushing to Have an Alberta Independence Referendum Is a Bad Gamble
Rushing to Have an Alberta Independence Referendum Is a Bad Gamble
Whether one endorses or opposes the option of an independent Alberta, Albertans would do well to consider the option carefully.
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Continue Reading →: Canada Should Fix Equalization and Other Regional Subsidies Now
Canada Should Fix Equalization and Other Regional Subsidies Now
The fundamental objection to equalization and equalization-type provisions in many federal programs is that they are entirely counterproductive. They do […]
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Continue Reading →: Feds Shortchange Alberta Once More
Feds Shortchange Alberta Once More
Those who argue that the Canadian federation exhibits plenty of fiscal and program biases against Prairie Canadians will likely see […]
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Continue Reading →: [Red Deer Speech] Separation If Necessary … The Winning Conditions
[Red Deer Speech] Separation If Necessary … The Winning Conditions
By Marco Navarro-Génie, President of the Haultain Research Institute. Good morning, and thank you for that introduction. Thank you to […]
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Continue Reading →: Politically Blocked Isn’t the Same as Geographically Landlocked
Politically Blocked Isn’t the Same as Geographically Landlocked
The current problem isn’t that Alberta and Saskatchewan are landlocked per se. Many territories in the world – independent states and sub-national states – are landlocked but are very prosperous without the obstructing actions of their neighbours.