Excerpt from “The Democratic Politics of Fear,” Chapter 7 in the newly expanded book “Canada’s COVID: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic” (February 2023) by Barry Cooper and Marco Navarro-Génie. We consider the evidence for, and consequences of, government-induced fear leading to lack of trust. The outcome was not what the authorities intended. Their…
Michael Zwaagstra: More Money Doesn’t Necessarily Produce a Better Education
Commentary The Alberta government is providing $10 million to help Grade 1 students catch up in math and reading. This is on top of a previously announced $110 million over the next three years for students experiencing mental and academic challenges resulting from the pandemic. Other provinces are also opening the spending taps. Last fall,…
South Africa Choosing Sides in China–Russia Wargames
March 4, 2023
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Commentary Combined military and naval drills between South Africa, Russia, and China began on Feb. 22. The 10-day wargames coincided with the one-year anniversary of the Russian War in Ukraine. Leading up to the start of the exercises, Russian warships docked in South Africa. The ships were marked with the letters “Z” and “V”, which have…
Absurdity of California Oil Profits Tax Becoming More Obvious
Commentary It never made any sense for a businessman named Gavin Newsom, now California’s governor, to come out against profits—in this case, for the oil companies. In calling a special session of the Legislature last November, he branded it “price gouging” by “Big Oil.” Hearings last week in the Legislature showed even his fellow Democrats…
The Outrageous Response to ‘It’s Okay to be White’ Poll
Commentary The people who are the easiest to propagandize are the ones who believe they’re incapable of being manipulated. Their hubris allows them to overlook signs of deception and their unwillingness to be skeptical of what tickles their confirmation bias ultimately becomes their downfall. The anti-critical race theory movement push during 2021 recognized that there…
Nikki Haley Makes Appeal to MAGA Crowd at CPAC
March 3, 2023
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Nikki Haley, who announced her run for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination last month, on March 3 addressed the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which over the past several years has been a forum for the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement led by former President Donald Trump, under whom Haley served as U.S….
Food and Soldiers: China’s Strategic Weaknesses
Commentary On Dec. 7, 2022, Dr. Edward Luttwak, a strategy consultant to the U.S. government, gave the keynote speech at Japan’s National Institute of Defense Studies (NIDS) International Symposium on Security Affairs. The speech was entitled “Can China Fight a War?” Most news outlets did not cover the NIDS conference and almost none of them mentioned Luttwak’s…
Frances Widdowson: The University of Lethbridge Falls to ‘Wokeism’
Commentary A few months ago Paul Viminitz, a philosophy professor at the University of Lethbridge (UL) in southern Alberta, invited me to give a talk on academic freedom. The talk originally intended to elaborate upon how “wokeism”—a phenomenon in which identity politics becomes totalitarian by insisting that the subjective beliefs of designated groups replace the…
Why The WHO Pandemic Treaty Is a Horrible Deal
Commentary FBI Director Christopher Wray has finally acknowledged that COVID-19 may have “leaked” from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Wray has even gone so far as to conclude that there “may” have been some cover-up involved from the Chinese authorities and their Communist Party (CCP). Of course, these things were reported here at The Epoch…
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Shen Yun, an Authentic Classical Chinese Dance Company, Takes on Communism
Commentary As the first rain of the year, a division of the seasons in the lunar calendar, approached, there was a ray of light on the 59th street of Mt. Mokmeok in Seoul, beckoning the audience to abandon deception and uphold goodness and tradition. The river of history has surged with thousands of waves Each…