On November 8th it was reported by CBS that the newly elected Council of the City of Dawson in the Yukon would be abstaining from the legally mandatory Oath of Allegiance following this year’s municipal election. According to the Yukon Municipal Act, the Oath of Allegiance must be sworn within 40 days of the end […]
Dawson City Council’s Refusal To Swear Oath To King Sets Dangerous Precedent Read More »
While carrying on the west coast farmer’s interminable crusade against the scourge of the Himalayan blackberry, I listened to a radio call-in show on the recent announcement that average monthly rent in Canada has soared to $2,200 – a new record. One by one, callers described the harrowing, stressful housing situations in which they find
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DEI, wokeness, critical race theory, systemic racism, intersectionality and cultural appropriation. Ten or twenty years ago, most of these terms were unknown, and some only existed inside academia or very limited circles of left-wing intellectuals. Identity politics has since come to the fore. Before the millenium, just about the only term that was in common
Yascha Mounk’s Book On “Wokeness” Is Eye-Opening Read More »
It is endlessly ironic that George Orwell’s 1984 is still assigned reading in Canadian high schools. If students make it to Chapter Five of this classic dystopian novel, they read the following: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed,
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Canada’s old elites built up the grand railway hotels, founded businesses empires that spanned generations, and created family estates with neat hedgerows and sloping lawns. On a late summer afternoon, they could be seen taking tea at the Empress in the Victoria Harbour. Their faults included arrogance and self-righteousness, and their sense of aristocratic virtue
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