Reading Time: 3 minutes As Trump upsets the world order, many countries may feel they have no choice but to develop nuclear weapons
Author: Brian Giesbrecht
Brian Giesbrecht was a Provincial Court Judge in Manitoba from 1976 to 2007. During that time he served as Acting Chief Judge, and Associate Chief Judge. He is now retired and lives in western Manitoba.
Health care wait lists make a mockery of the system
Reading Time: 3 minutes At its core, the problem is related to lack of funding. It’s time for Ottawa to provide the necessary funds or launch full-scale medicare reform
A criminal charge based on the race of the victim is wrong
Reading Time: 3 minutes Not all the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls report recommendations stand up to scrutiny
Donor-supported CBC is a model worth pursuing
Reading Time: 3 minutes CBC has become tediously missionary rather than journalistic. And the last thing Canada’s private media needs is to compete with a subsidized entity
Liberals swept Norman under the rug well before election
Reading Time: 3 minutes If not for government venality and incompetence, the vice-admiral would still be at his post, doing his job
The dumbing down of Canadian universities
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Trudeau government is pressuring universities to include diversity at the expense of merit as a key criterion for the hiring and promotion of employees
The compelling case for selling Canada’s water to the U.S.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Americans need water and we have it. Canadians should begin to look at water as a commodity – the blue gold that it is.
Appropriation isn’t a crime, it’s natural cultural evolution
Reading Time: 3 minutes Cultural appropriation is how people learn. We take the most useful information we come across and pass it on to our children
Climate change could bring huge payoff to Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes As sea ice recedes in the Northwest Passage, new shipping lanes could open that change the world economy
The transgender movement needs boundaries
Reading Time: 3 minutes People with gender dysphoria must be treated with respect and acceptance. But privacy and safety should not be sacrificed