Should Canada’s Criminal Code Become More “Woke”?
Unfortunately, we live in a violent world, but not as violent as it has been. In 2011, Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, and public intellectual...
Canada’s Foreign Policy Sorely Lacks Creativity
Foreign policy includes a variety of objectives, including economic ones. During the Cold War, up to around 1990, Canada’s role in the world was pretty clear....
Was Trump’s Victory Fluke Or Fate?
My mother was in her early 90s when she passed away in early 2016. She was often fascinated by US politics. She bought our first colour TV in 1973 because she wanted...
Trump’s Victory Is Not As Monumental As It Seems To The Media
In the days before the US election, the major news media in Canada and the US (newspapers, TV networks, and cable channels etc., excluding Fox News) were saying...
The 2% Solution: How Canada Can Meet Its NATO Spending Obligation Sensibly
Nearly every newspaper or magazine article that has anything to do with Canadian defence policy inevitably mentions that Canada is far below the 2% spending target...
Ontario Used To Be Well Governed, But Has Lost Its Mojo
The Ontario I grew up in was governed by what was called the “Big Blue Machine”, the nickname for the Progressive Conservative Party that governed the province...
Why Isn’t Densification Making Housing Cheaper?
Housing affordability has been the major issue impacting average Canadians ever since the Covid pandemic has declined in importance. For around two decades, if not...
You May Be A Landlord Or Real Estate Speculator, And Not Even Know It!
Newspapers in Canada have been covering the “housing crisis”, with many stories about the high cost of buying or renting a home since the pandemic. Landlords...
That’s Not Fair! What Should Governments Subsidize?
When I go on X, or Twitter, or Ex-Twitter or X-Twitter, my feed is often full of ideological people pushing the idea that Land Value Taxes (LVTs) are the solution...
Will Canada Really Have 63 Million People In 2073? Do We Have A Choice?
Recently (late June 2024), Statistics Canada released the projections for Canada’s population for the next 49 years, all the way to 2073. There were headlines...