Commentary There can be a tendency among the public to write off political scandals as nothing more than partisan infighting, and it’s often an understandable tendency. These days politicians and their proxies turn every little misstep made by their opponents into the biggest of dramas, demanding inquiries and resignations for things that don’t even register…
Anthony Furey: Beijing’s Election Interference Must Be Taken Seriously
February 26, 2023
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Cory Morgan: If Canada Is to Catch Up on the Rapidly Growing Housing Shortage, Governments Need to Get out of the Way
Commentary Canada’s housing affordability challenges are about to get a whole lot worse soon. While the Canadian government has set immigration targets at 500,000 people per year, anticipated new home construction is expected to fall short of national needs by 100,000. Governments at all levels need to address this issue before it becomes a full-blown…
Behind the Agenda to Rid Canada’s Military Chaplaincy of Traditional Faith Groups
Commentary Fifteen years ago, the Royal Canadian Chaplain Service was wrestling with the corollaries of pluralism in Canada, and how to tap into the benefits of true diversity in the Canadian multicultural context. Even though I am an orthodox Lutheran, who does not believe that all religions are equally valid expressions of truth, I was…
Pandemic Performance Study Blatant Attempt to Justify Feds’ Actions?
Commentary Rather than learning from the painful lessons of the past three years, it’s obvious that we’ve entered a post-pandemic phase of government-led alarmism. The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)—including Theresa Tam—has published a study in a Canadian public health journal declaring that pandemic-inspired restrictions substantially reduced the impact of COVID-19 in Canada. “Counterfactuals…
Preventing Police Misconduct Requires Practical Action, Not Ideological Reform
Commentary The horrific death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols in Memphis has ignited yet another media firestorm and public outcry for systemic change in policing. News outlets and social media platforms couldn’t wait to associate the tragedy with white supremacy, internalized racism, and systemic failures in law enforcement. As in the cases of other high-profile police…
Brittany Higgins’ Case Shouldn’t Have Gone to Trial to Begin With, so Why Did It?
Commentary The Brittany Higgins celebrity saga continues with the white dress she wore to a feminist rally being considered an addition to the collection in the Museum of Australian Democracy. But another key player in this circus isn’t doing so well. Only a few months ago, the Australian Capital Territory’s (ACT) Director of Public Prosecutions…
California Legislative Analyst Discovers ‘Seiler’s Law’ on Budget Spending Limit
February 24, 2023
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Commentary Back in 2003, I was perusing some state budget documents and found an interesting correlation. When state general-fund spending rose above 6.2 percent of the income of Californians, inevitably the state would run deficits, get into budget trouble, and end up having to make sharp budget cuts and tax increases. The data came from…
Run for Your Lives: It’s the Bird Flu
February 24, 2023
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Commentary So many people made bank (both power and money) on the last pandemic, they are already preparing for a new one. The bit about Monkeypox (remember that health emergency only a year ago?) didn’t really go well, so they are reverting again to the fear of infectious disease, this time the old standby H5N1,…
Inflation Has Returned
Commentary After some encouraging news last summer and fall, many began anticipating a quick end to the economy’s inflation problem. Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Jerome Powell even suggested that he might not have been so wrong in 2021 when he declared the inflationary pressure “transitory.” The news from January contradicts this optimism. The Labor Department…
Assisted Suicide: Legalize First, Ask Questions Later
Commentary In 2021, Parliament set up a special committee of MPs and senators to study the issue of “medical assistance in dying” (or MAiD) and to make recommendations to Parliament. The Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying released its “Choices for Canadians” report on Feb. 15. The committee recommends expanding MAiD further, even…
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