February 27, 2025

Trump’s Tariffs -- A View from Canada

Everyone knows that there is no love lost between President Trump and Canada’s failed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. During Trump’s first term, Trudeau never missed an opportunity to thumb his nose at the president and badmouth him behind...

September 22, 2023

Hands off Our Kids Comes of Age

The only good that came from the pandemic lockdowns was that parents in great numbers finally began to learn what was going on in the public school system as the corrupt curriculum was inadvertently beamed into their homes. This knowledge has given b...

September 15, 2023

Mental Illness and Euthanasia

Critics of euthanasia have always warned that, however tight the initial restrictions, its legalization would inevitably comprise a slippery slope. These critics have always been right. Typically, initial restrictions will specify that the candidate ...

September 12, 2023

Israel's Constitutional Dilemma

In Israel the protesting against the government’s proposed judicial reforms continues. This morning I spoke with a good friend in Israel, a self-styled secular leftist. He informed me that he and his wife continue to protest religiously, that i...

August 26, 2023

A Disarmed Man Goes into Battle

Why do people commit suicide? Volumes have been written on the subject and in many cases, we know, or like to think we know, what motivated them to do so. But some cases, even after ready explanations, still remain rather mysterious. A little over...

February 10, 2023

Strangers and Others

Propagandists on the political Left like to quote the Bible, ostensibly in order to prove their religious bona fides and legitimate their agenda to adherents of the Judeo-Christian tradition. One of the favorite quotes of the open borders crowd, espe...

September 13, 2022

In Canada, the pushback grows

Until the truckers' Freedom Convoy, I had almost given up on my fellow Canadians growing a spine.  Until then, it seemed to me that Canadians were too complacent, too trusting of authority, too go-along-to-get along, and way too cherish...

February 23, 2022

The State’s Monopoly on Violence

It is too early to say yet how future historians will view the present moment in history.  But as we are learning about the true costs of the pandemic lockdowns—and also learning how negligible have been the benefits—it’s not u...

February 16, 2022

Canadian Martial Law: Trudeau Redux

Canadians who are old enough to remember when Justin Trudeau was born will recall that at the time his father, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, explained to the fawning press that he had named his newborn son Justin because -- wait for it -- Justice. A...