The U.S. president has helped Canadian consumers by forcing Canada to concede a portion of its dairy market
By Patrick Luciani and Owen Lippert Atlantic Institute for Market Studies If U.S. President Donald Trump is looking for friends, he won't find them in Canada, especially after dressing down Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for being “very dishonest” at the G7 meeting in Quebec earlier this year. That insult won't be soon forgotten. But unintentionally,…
And using an antibiotic when not needed makes patients more vulnerable to antibiotic-resistant infections
By Guylène Thériault and Wendy Levinson EvidenceNetwork.ca Cold and flu season for many Canadians means getting ready to have their lives and routines thrown off by painful and annoying symptoms. This can mean days off work or school dealing with sore throats, nasal congestion and fever. For parents, it can be challenging to comfort young…
The federal government's fiscal plan is a dismal failure. Prime Minister Trudeau must repair it before next year’s election
By Jason Clemens, Jake Fuss and Milagros Palacios The Fraser Institute The next federal election is less than a year away. A lingering issue for the government, in particular Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Finance Bill Morneau, is their ability to soundly manage the country’s finances. While much of the attention has rightly…
Central banks – try as they might – can’t create genuine cryptocurrencies and should learn to live with rising competition
State digital currencies that attempt to emulate private cryptocurrencies are doomed. Not only will they fail in terms of adoption, despite having the state behind them, they will fail in terms of the objectives that drive alternative currencies. The rise of cryptocurrencies, particularly bitcoin, has caught the attention of central banks and financial regulators. Given…
Pot’s benefits have been overstated by political advocates and scientists, whose bias may have tainted research results
Marijuana users want society to believe the very thing they’ve told themselves for years – that the highs of marijuana far outweigh its lows when it comes to health and the effect on the masses. Informed minds that remain sober and less tainted by personal bias realize that’s probably not the case. Cannabis is demonstrably…
From Abraham Lincoln to Martin Luther King to Donald Trump, America offers examples – good and bad – of the power of language
Language is a powerful tool for shaping a society's values. The manner in which a leader uses language can reset the moral compass of a nation. And it can influence, for better or worse, the behaviour of its citizenry. While public discourse in Canada isn’t perfect, it’s reasonably civil. Canadian politicians, though sometimes outspoken and critical…
Modern progressives see proof of social oppression around every corner. They believe society in general is to blame
The breaking point for me was Pittsburgh. This murderous act of anti-Semitic horror, when combined with the relentless breakdown in social civility, has made me face an unpalatable truth: something has gone very wrong with modern society. Our entire civilization is speeding to toward fragmentation and decay – Brexit, Donald Trump, warring political partisanship, rising…
We need a national conversation about how Canadian schools can better deal with issues that lead to the use of such rooms
I’ve often wondered why there’s very little public outcry when the media reports on the cruel use of seclusion rooms for kids with developmental disabilities and delays in schools across Canada. I’ve worked with kids born with developmental disabilities since I was 16 years old. I started out as a respite worker for families through…
A new study indicates that 6.4 million Canadians have either adopted a meatless diet or are limiting the meat they eat
World Vegan Day falls on Nov. 1 so it seems like an appropriate time to note that Canadians are eating less meat. Beef consumption is down by 16 per cent or 94 million kilograms a year compared to 2010. And since 32.2 per cent of Canadians are thinking of reducing their meat consumption within the…
In the early '60s, Yale's professor Stanley Milgram performed an experiment that revealed some interesting observations about human behaviour
In the early 1960s, Yale psychology professor Stanley Milgram performed an experiment that revealed some interesting observations about human response. Though the result and ethics of his experiment have been questioned, his findings continue to cause us to ponder what each of us would do if we had to choose between following directions and showing…
Including Indigenous voices in U.S.-Canada water agreement discussions would give the environment a leading role
Salmon used to swim all the way up the Columbia River from the Pacific Ocean near Astoria, Ore., to the Canadian Rocky Mountains at the river’s headwaters in Canal Flats, B.C. It was an astounding journey of 2,000 kilometres upstream that cut through a landscape of lush forest, dry desert and high peaks. But since…
The demise of the German Hohenzollerns led to Hitler, while the collapse of the Austrian Habsburgs gave rise to malignant nationalism
November marks the political demise of two imperial dynasties, the German Hohenzollerns and the Austrian Habsburgs. Like the Russian Romanovs and the Turkish Ottomans, they were casualties of the First World War. The Romanovs were the first to go, upended by the war-induced 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Of course, the case can be made that what…
Why researchers are studying cannabis for promising anti-seizure medication
We’ve lost many years of potentially important research on the use of cannabis as medicine because of polarized views of the ‘weed’ among researchers, policy-makers and the general public. On one side, there are those who see cannabis as a dangerous psychoactive drug that should be prohibited. On the other, there are those who view cannabis as…
Tearing down statues and decrying historic decisions in no way takes the measure of a great man, or his flaws when it comes to the Indigenous
Looking for a bargain statue of Sir John A. Macdonald? Victoria city council has removed just such a statue from City Hall, where it has stood for as long as anyone can remember. The intent is to promote reconciliation with Indigenous people. This is but the latest of a series of attacks on Canadian historical…
The last thing the Liberals want is for the NDP to take the spotlight or to start drawing votes on the left-centre
Why won’t Prime Minister Justin Trudeau call a byelection in Burnaby South? It’s a question some Canadians are still trying to figure out, even though the answer is right in front of them. Let’s take a closer look at this controversy. The Liberals aren’t obligated to call a byelection in the B.C. riding. Trudeau has…