Tag: Viewpoints

Childhood Obesity: What You’re Not Hearing in the News

New guidelines on treating childhood obesity from the American Academy of Pediatrics call for early and aggressive treatment—including weight loss drugs for children as young as 6 and bariatric surgery for youths as young as 13—instead of what they call “watchful waiting or unnecessary delay of appropriate treatment of children.” The guidelines immediately stirred controversy,…


The US Follows in the Footsteps of Ancient Rome

Commentary The idiom “there is nothing new under the sun” comes from Ecclesiastes 1:9. That has proven to be true for individuals, groups, and also nations over the centuries. Technology might change, but not the underlying human nature and the impact of the Seven Deadly Sins on each generation. Consider the factors that contributed to…


North Korean Refugee Who Became Best-Selling Author: ‘Only in Capitalism Is My Story Possible’

Commentary In 2022 I had the opportunity to attend a two-day conference in Colorado hosted by the Objective Standard Institute. While there were many powerful speakers, the one whose story captivated me the most was that of Yeonmi Park, a North Korean defector who in 2007 managed to escape her totalitarian country at age 13…


John Robson: Attempts to Trivialize Chinese Election Meddling Will Have Serious Consequences

Commentary Diversity, we are told monotonously, is what unites us in Canada. And it is good up to a point, indeed vital. But a society that is not united around certain principles, for instance that foreign tyrants subverting our elections is intolerable, will neither survive nor deserve to. So are we? I see an ominous…


What’s Causing Your Cognitive Decline?

It starts slowly: You can’t find the word that’s on the tip of your tongue; you don’t recognize the new neighbor you met a few days back; you can’t remember what you ate for dinner last night. Then you notice more problems: You leave the stove burner on after you’ve served a meal; you struggle…


The Four-Day Work Week and Bernie

Commentary Some 61 varied British businesses with a total of 2,900 employees over the course of six months recently participated in the largest experiment ever of a four-day work week, effectively providing their workers with a paid day off a week. Conducted by the British think tank Autonomy, two nonprofits, and researchers at Cambridge and…


Brian Giesbrecht: The Genocide Lie

Commentary The case of Jim McMurtry is now well known to Canadians. He is the Abbotsford schoolteacher who told his class the truth about the claim that 215 indigenous students had been killed and secretly buried at Kamloops Indian Residential School—and was fired for it. He said that any students who died at the school…


The ‘1619 Project’ Is Wrong About Capitalism, but Not in the Way You May Think

Commentary In 1834, an angry mob descended on a gathering at a New York church. Their target was Lewis and Arthur Tappan, owners of a successful mercantile import business. When the Tappans fled, the mob went to Lewis Tappan’s home and threw his belongings into a fire on the street. The Tappans were the epitome…


Time to Defeat China’s Proxies in Mexico

Commentary Communist China has been conducting a hybrid war against its main enemy, the United States of America, for years. There are multiple fronts in that war, including economic warfare, diplomatic intimidation (“wolf warriors”), espionage, elite capture, suborning international institutions (the World Health Organization), social media (TikTok cultural warfare), etc. A key front that’s frequently…


Will Ohio Disaster Be Used to Declare Climate Emergency?

Commentary More evidence that the green agenda has nothing to do with the environment is the fact that the president who has earmarked trillions for green initiatives has no plans to visit the site of the catastrophic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. The toxic chemicals that spilled from the wreckage and seeped into the…