Tag: Opinion

Don’t Fall for Biden’s Economic Fairy Tale

Commentary Like Nero bragging about rebuilding Circus Maximus after burning it down, President Joe Biden took to the podium Tuesday night to take credit for solving a slew of problems he helped create. At the top of his State of the Union address, the president boasted that he had “more jobs created in two years…


What Was the Point of Denying Natural Immunity?

Commentary On Nov. 13, 2020, just as the vaccine was being rolled out (surely a sheer coincidence that it was just after the election), the World Health Organization (WHO) made a hugely significant change to its website. It pertained to the section on herd immunity—the concept theorizing how a new pathogen goes from pandemic to…


Sylvain Charlebois: Canada Desperately Needs ‘Real’ Discount Grocery Stores

Commentary This may come as a surprise to some Canadians, but our country doesn’t really have a real discount grocery chain. With higher food prices and a growing number of consumers seeking refuge from record-setting food inflation at the grocery store, real discount grocery stores would come in very handy. But the option is simply…


What If It Was Aliens That Were Shot Down?

Commentary A U.S. Air Force general isn’t ruling out the possibility of aliens—to put it clearly, he means space aliens—as the source of the three mysterious objects our warplanes shot out of the sky recently, according to the New York Post of Feb. 13, 2023: “Gen. Glen VanHerck said: ‘I’ll let the intel community and…


Five Lingering Questions About China’s Spy Balloon

Commentary  China neither fears nor respects America under a compromised and craven Biden administration. That much was predicted before Joe Biden’s presidency, and has been clear from its outset. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders made their position known early and often in word—hitting their Biden administration counterparts with a barrage of anti-American invective at the…


‘How Humankind Came To Be’ Carries a Good Message for the Test of Life, Teachers Say

Mary Rose Martin, an elementary school teacher, sees life as a test and agrees that the purpose of life is to pave the way to heaven. Upon reading “How Humankind Came to Be,” an article Falun Gong founder Li Hongzhi published in The Epoch Times last month, she wrote to the newspaper: “Living in the…


Brazil’s New President Seeking Validation and Support From China and US Presents Challenges—and Opportunities

Commentary It sounds paradoxical, but President Lula da Silva of Brazil is seeking closer ties with both the United States and Communist China. Lula’s administration claims he will keep Brazil “firmly [in] the democratic camp.” At the same time, Lula chose to meet with Wang Qishan, a close ally of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General…


What Are We Doing to Counter CCP Spying?

Commentary The determination of the Chinese Communist regime to spy and collect information as part of its relentless efforts to expand its influence throughout the world was in stark relief this past week. The revelation that hundreds of security cameras in Australian government buildings were potentially collecting information for China followed the saga of the…


Anthony Furey: China’s ‘Unidentified Objects’ Over North America: Let’s Talk About Canada’s Defence Capabilities

Commentary The initial news that a spy balloon from China was hovering over the continental United States caught many people by surprise. We’re just not used to seeing that sort of thing happen. It seemed so out of place for our times. It had the feel of something either historical, like out of the Cold…


Michael Taube: After Tory’s Resignation, What Will the New Mayor of Toronto’s Agenda Ultimately Be?

Commentary Politics can be a cruel master at times. Some politicians have had periods of fiery success resembling a mighty phoenix. Others have watched the flames fizzle out in a slow burn—and, in some cases, the most dramatic fashion imaginable. The latter is what happened to Toronto Mayor John Tory’s career in the blink of…