Even the BBC headlined a news report with the question, “Does Justin Trudeau apologise too much?”
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The best way for liberalization to happen is for a province or territory to act unilaterally to end its own barriers. The Alberta government has already moved ahead in just this fashion.
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Western voters were not insane in the 1980s and they’re not insane today
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Yes, Albertans are angry. It would be remarkable if they had any other reaction.
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East Asian Americans never waited for long-deserved equality in American laws and institutions before carving out their future and their children’s opportunities whenever possible—in this case, via education
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The point of the numerous mea culpas is to morally preen and take issue with the dead who cannot argue back.
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The Cain and Abel story may be the first in the Western canon where the temptation to burrow in self-pity appears, where a man who spills blood thinks himself the victim.
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Rising incomes in Canada have been closely tied to one economic sector. Naturally, it’s the one experiencing implacable opposition.
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When Christopher Hitchens described George Orwell as “sensitive to intellectual hypocrisy and well-tuned to pick up the invariably creepy noises which it gives off,” the same lucidity applied in exact measure to Hitchens.
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Almost every society had the awful, evil mark of slavery on it. That should lead those of alive today to grasp this reality: We have a lot more in common with each other than with our ancient tribes.
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An excerpt from The Victim Cult: How in history can we actually compare and weigh suffering as if an impartial scale exists?
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As with elsewhere in Canada, governments in British Columbia are committing a troika of mistakes,
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King Canute showed his subjects that no, even he couldn’t stop the tide from coming in. A thousand years later, too many politicians don’t seem to understand that economies can’t “transition” by decree.
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To put that $1.9 billion in context, Alberta’s four major school districts plan to spend just over $1.8 billion on new schools, and renovations and repairs over the next three years.
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Canada is diverse by any measure except in the choice of five decidedly similar female journalists for Monday’s federal leaders’ debate. Here’s a positive alternative: five distinguished women diverse in background, hometown and, above all, thought.
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Dissimulation about auto insurance in British Columbia has been going on for five decades.
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Environmental doomsayers scratch a persistent cultural itch in the West, but ignore significant progress on many fronts.
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Over the past three decades, waves of activists and groups have attacked Canada’s natural resource sectors. Now, many of these same attackers wave away concerns over the effects of their efforts: fleeing investment, vaporized jobs, and gutted tax revenues.
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The same approach to mines in the 1990s which sent mining companies fleeing to Chile and elsewhere, is playing out once again in another sector in British Columbia: Forestry.
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Governments everywhere spend too much money on labour, and not enough on things like highways. Here’s why.
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