Canadian Citizenship Should Not Be Without Obligations
We live in an era where everybody is adamant about their rights, particularly their human rights as citizens. Nobody wants to be a second-class citizen, and...
Are Biden And Trudeau Responsible For Inflation And High Prices?
Most of us have heard the term “It’s the economy, stupid!”. It actually comes from a handmade sign that Bill Clinton’s campaign strategist James Carville...
Crossroads Blues: Canada’s Economy Never Seems To Get On The Right Path
Blues legend Robert Johnson wrote and recorded the song “Crossroads” (Cross Road Blues) – the song he is most famous for and which many people likely know...
Are Canadian Courts Becoming Far More Powerful Than We Expected – Or Wanted?
I grew up in Don Mills in the 1960s and 1970s, and frankly I feel lucky to have gone to school in those years, and not today. The education I got through the North...
Yascha Mounk’s Book On “Wokeness” Is Eye-Opening
DEI, wokeness, critical race theory, systemic racism, intersectionality and cultural appropriation. Ten or twenty years ago, most of these terms were unknown, and...
The Paradox Of The Fourplex
Nearly all Canadians will agree that Canada is in the middle of a housing crisis. We are not alone in this, with the US, Australia, New Zealand, and even the UK...
No Hockey For You
I’m not a huge hockey fan. As a kid, I was a failure at both skating and skiing. I played some road hockey, then a little floor hockey in junior high. In the mid...
Is It Fair To Increase The Capital Gains Tax?
In the recent 2024 Federal Budget, the Liberal government opted to increase the taxes on capital gains. This has seen a lot of media coverage both in favour and...
There Is No Generational War
I just got a 3-month free subscription to Apple TV after a few years away from having it. After watching the last season of Ted Lasso, the next thing I watched was...
The Age Of Idiocy Is Upon Us
One of the most famous opening lines from a novel is from Dickens: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the...