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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 down for the second time. This second COVID-19 lockdown comes four months after lifting the first one instituted in March. How Israeli citizens react to the unsustainable nature of re-lockdowns will be instructive for the…
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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 of colour. The revelation by its Senior Leaders University Team has hardly received any attention. The shocking admission was made on June 24, which coincidentally is the unofficial discovery of this country, when John Cabot…
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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 example lies in how we trampled – in fear – over memory and institutions, obsessively protective and morally dismissive of dignity and human life simultaneously. The COVID-19 lockdown has been a strange time for people…
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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 with lifting economic restrictions, Sweden is both praised and condemned. People readily condemn Stefan Löfven’s Social Democrat (Sweden’s NDP equivalent) government for not emulating China and for violating what Swedish academicians called the “lockdown consensus.” For its less…
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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 national briefing. Closely watching as our national leaders soberly descends down the stairs and step up to the microphone. Citizens and mainstream media all wait with bated breath to learn about the nation’s COVID state…
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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 alone in the first few weeks of March 2020. Movie titles such as: 28 Weeks Later (2007), Quarantine (2008), Carriers (2009), and I Am Legend (2007), have provided an escape from our quarantined hideouts. Unfortunately, such movies about a virus-infected planet and roaming…
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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 mine. Reports of massive opposition within the Liberal Party caucus and rumours of an appeasing “economic aid” package for the province were strong indicators that the federal cabinet had no intentions to approve the Frontier…
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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. What I want this conversation to turn towards is the winning conditions. I am not in favour of changing just for the sake of changing stuff, but I think we have all come to realize…
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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 exactly the opposite of what legislators intended for them to do. Equalization and similar provisions fund programming in recipient provinces that is more generous than in those provinces whose citizens are net contributors to them.…
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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 further evidence to that effect, with the most recent study published by the Halifax-based Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS). The study, Re-thinking Student Job Subsidies, authored by David Murrell and Alan Chan, is subtitled…
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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 Danny for inviting me to speak here today. I am a guy of many hats and I appear here this morning as a senior fellow of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, and as president…
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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.
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Continue Reading →: Tide-water Access: Redefining Canada’s Internal Boundaries
Tide-water Access: Redefining Canada’s Internal Boundaries
This paper examines the fundamental rights of Albertans and Saskatchewanians have to tidewater, riparian rights, economic rights, and mobility rights; and the neglect of those rights by the federal government for the past 115 years, when decisions were based on a different set of circumstances and not on the future outlook for these Canadian citizens.…
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Continue Reading →: Extinction Rebellion Is an Apocalyptic Cult
Extinction Rebellion Is an Apocalyptic Cult
XR are prepared to go to prison and, like most cults, are prepared to wreak havoc onto the world until the world meets their demands and converts, non-violently for now. But that may change. Their sense of urgency may turn in frustration to violent desperation, prompting their twisted logic to jump to vandal criminal action.
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Continue Reading →: Federal Subsidies Undermine the Media and Provinces
Federal Subsidies Undermine the Media and Provinces
Regional reporting and editorials may come to suffer blindness similar (even if lesser) to that in some Central Canadian media, to the disadvantage of provinces over time.
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Continue Reading →: Atlantic Canada must be told ‘no,’ or it will continue to decline
Atlantic Canada must be told ‘no,’ or it will continue to decline
To save the Atlantic region from continued decline, several changes should be implemented. They will be unpopular, but are necessary.