A few months back, in January, Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a remarkable speech in Davos that garnered a lot of media attention around the world, most of it very positive. Carney was credited with saying important things that no other leader has s...
Our education system carves out a bit of time in the curriculum to discuss the Acadian people. As a result, many Canadians know that the Acadians were francophones who lived in what is now Atlantic Canada. They were expelled from the Maritimes and Ne...
When I was a kid in the 1960s, my mother took me to see a really funny movie titled The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming. It was directed by that great Canadian, Norman Jewison, who I had the pleasure to meet once, because I became friend...
There has been much uncertainty and even violence on the matter of Indigenous treaty rights to fishing and hunting. For example as The Narwhal reported on June 5, 2023: “In 2020, Fisheries and Oceans Canada shut the elver fishery down early, after co...
A new Leger poll examines Canadian public opinion on immigration, government debt, and back-to-office mandates for federal government workers. To read the full poll, click here. I have included some of the key points on immigration attitudes below. E...
Beneath the set of policies pursued by a prime minister usually rests a conception of what Canada was, is, and should be: Macdonald’s anti-American Canadian nationalism, Diefenbaker’s old-school toryism and affinity for Canada’s British connection, L...
The Canadian governing elites, both Conservative and Liberal, claim to be the true custodians of the economy. Yet as the figures below from Statistics Canada and the International Monetary Fund clearly document, the Canadian economy was being rapidly...
Premier Danielle Smith wants Ottawa to grant her provincial government sweeping new immigration powers. In a recent press conference on Alberta’s October referendum, which will seek input from voters on immigration as well as several broader constitu...
In a previous article, I discussed the way in which nationalistic Red Toryism was supplanted by the more continentalist Blue Toryism. This article will go through the after effects of this supercession, and try to discover the lost Canadian autarky. ...
Those who have read the history of English jurisprudence and are knowledgeable about the contributions of the jury system to assuring fair trials and ensuring that justice is dispensed to the accused would not accept the politicization of a system of...