Tag: Opinion

Michael Zwaagstra: Alberta Election Will Impact Schools in a Big Way

Commentary The Alberta election campaign is now underway. Polls indicate that it will be a tight race between Danielle Smith’s UCP and Rachel Notley’s NDP. With the NDP well ahead in Edmonton and with most of rural Alberta locked in for the UCP, the election will almost certainly come down to Calgary, where the UCP…


Peter Menzies: With Bill C-11 Now Law, What to Watch Out for to Fight Online Censorship

Commentary As of April 28, everything audio and visual on the internet is under the control of Canada’s broadcasting and telecommunications regulator and its nine political appointees. It will be their job, as members of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), to make sure anything that meets the definition of “programming” (and I’m thinking…


The Crime of ‘Talking to Tucker Carlson’

Commentary The whole world is commenting on and speculating about the abrupt departure of former Fox commentator Tucker Carlson from that network. Addressing the current moment is not my intent. I have no idea what the “inside story” is on the events related to Fox’s or Carlson’s decisions. Mr. Carlson is wisely being deliberative regarding…


Can India Replace China and US as Leading Economic Superpower?

Commentary India is very much a country on the up. Although the South Asian country gained independence from Britain in 1947, its economy only started to make substantial improvements in the 1990s after a number of economic reforms were introduced. In addition to strengthening the banking sector and modernizing the stock markets, these reforms opened…


Another Progressive Fusillade Goes Awry

Commentary Is Chris Rufo our Br’er Rabbit? In his tireless battle against Critical Race Theory (CRT), the latest allotrope of vicious anti-white, polymorphously perverse Marxist ideology, Rufo has had signal success. He has succeeded in bringing the truth about CRT to the public’s attention, and his work has inspired a significant backlash. He has inspired…


John Robson: The Contrast in How Striking Federal Workers Were Treated Compared to the Truckers’ Convoy

Commentary It’s just as well that striking federal public servants didn’t use trucks to block roads, interfere with critical infrastructure, and cause Canadians major and lasting inconvenience if not harm. Someone might have said something. For instance, “seize their bank accounts.” Just kidding. Not about blocking roads, etc. Those things really happened. But the only…


ANALYSIS: The Potential Implications of Trump’s Legal Team’s Letter to Congress

News Analysis Last week, a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, Timothy Parlatore, along with three additional lawyers, sent a 10-page letter to the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio). The letter seeks Turner’s intervention in special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal investigation regarding Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents. The letter…


Carry On, Wayward Veteran

Commentary During my time in the Army, I had the great fortune to “unplug” from the operational Army and be a graduate student at Princeton University. During that time, I must admit I was chasing ghosts. I toiled and mulled over thoughts and feelings wondering: “Is there something wrong with me?” Sadly, veterans and the…


A New Number in Communist Chinese Numerology?

Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is steeped in numerology as it seeks to convey legitimacy by merging traditional Chinese lucky numbers with crackpot communist policies imposed on the unsuspecting Chinese people. The communists seek to capitalize on the Chinese belief that lucky numbers are associated with good fortune, thus emphasizing certain numbers in promulgating…


US and Allies Should Seize More Iranian Oil

Commentary Iran seized a U.S. oil cargo destined for Houston on April 27. The seizure of Kuwaiti oil transiting the Gulf of Oman was apparently in retaliation for a U.S. seizure of Iranian oil off the coast of South Africa a few days earlier. The original U.S. seizure was part of sanctions against Iran’s nuclear…