Tag: Viewpoints

‘Looking At’ Seizing Control Over Western Canada’s Natural Resources

Commentary Last week, two things happened that could have profound impacts on natural resources development in Saskatchewan. One is a hint the federal government might want to take control of natural resources away from the provinces, and the other is the Saskatchewan government’s assertion that it’s not going to happen. And now, Premier Scott Moe…


China’s Battery Weapon

Commentary It appears as if the Chinese Communist Party is running the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA this week is announcing new emissions rules for cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks for the model years 2027 to 2032, and possibly for heavy-duty vehicles, too. According to The New York Times, the rules would…


Voicing ‘No’ to Embedding Race Politics into the Australian Constitution

Commentary The Liberal Party, on April 5, decided to oppose Labor’s push to entrench The Voice in the Australian Constitution. The Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton, told reporters that the Voice is “divisive, and it’s not going to deliver the outcomes to people on the ground.” Instead, the Coalition favours regional bodies to enhance effective communication…


China Is No Threat to the US Dollar, but US Government Policy May Hurt

Commentary Former President Donald Trump has expressed concern that China could displace the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency. The warning follows reports of agreements between various nations to use the yuan in commodity transactions. For years, rumors have circulated about the demise of the U.S. dollar as a global reserve currency, but the…


Trump Indictment Bigger Than One Man

Commentary The indictment of former President Donald Trump has already turned into one of the biggest news events in political history. The airwaves are wall-to-wall with liberal and conservative pundits alike spinning their take on this historic decision. Average Americans are taking to social media to show their support for one side or the other….


Rex Murphy: The Attack on Riley Gaines Shows Just How Far Things Have Sunk

Commentary  Women are women. How’s that for a sentence? A declaration. To say a woman is a woman requires no prefix. It requires no qualifier. No extra start-up syllable. It requires no semantic trickery to take its plain and always-understood sense—its sense since the beginning of time and the discovery of language itself—to try to turn it…


Mexico’s Gun Problem Not California’s, nor America’s

Commentary Aren’t American officials supposed to side with Americans? One would think so. Not California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the attorneys general from 16 other states and Washington, D.C. They filed an amicus brief in an appeal to a case brought by the country of Mexico against 10 U.S. gun manufacturers. The case is…


The Ruination of Great American Cities

Commentary There was something deeply demoralizing about the recent Mayoral election in Chicago, once among America’s greatest cities. The good news is that the catastrophic reign of a deeply corrupt and crazed mayor, who piled egregiously racist policies on top of one of the worst COVID responses in the country, came to an end. The…


Cory Morgan: Feds Must Fix Canada’s Leaky and Dangerous Bail System

Commentary Spiking violent crimes committed by offenders recently released on bail have finally convinced Canada’s Liberal government to re-examine bail policies. Will the government pursue true bail reforms or will they continue down the woke rabbit hole of justice policies that contributed to the crisis in the first place? Decades of well-meaning but naive policies…


Michael Taube: Safe and Secure Canadian Cities… No More?

Commentary The vast majority of Canada’s neighbourhoods and communities have historically been regarded as safe and secure. Recent violent events in several cities have caused some Canadians to wonder if that vivid lustre has finally worn off. Gabriel Magalhaes was fatally stabbed at the Keele Street subway station in Toronto on March 25. The 16-year-old…