Reading Time: 4 minutes Perhaps it’s not democracy that has been corrupted, nor the democratic process, but rather the electorate itself
Tag: Idealogues
Trudeau’s infrastructure announcement raises red flags
Reading Time: 3 minutes Every dollar spent on white elephant vanity projects reduces the money that could be spent on schools, hospitals
Canada doesn’t need Mark Carney’s divisive advice
Reading Time: 4 minutes The former Bank of England governor has proven his unwillingness to budge when it comes to his political agenda and priorities
COVID-19 and scientific fallibility
Reading Time: 3 minutes The pandemic has underlined that we should neither disregard nor worship uncritically at the altar of science
COVID-19 shows modern politics lacks common sense
Reading Time: 4 minutes Placing trust in the public has become an alien idea. Our governments have become too large and self-serving
Celebrating the human spirit can change the world
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Specials helped calm racial tensions and drew broad attention to the unjust imprisonment of Nelson Mandela
Ottawa’s carbon tax hike out of step with global reality
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian taxpayers need financial relief during the COVID-19 crisis. Carbon taxes are an obvious place to start
Radical, inhuman ideology endangers oil patch
Reading Time: 3 minutes The authors of a letter to Trudeau say most aid should be expedited but for oil companies, which need to be trapped in a bureaucratic nightmare
Beware of bias in the social sciences
Reading Time: 3 minutes Liberal bias among researchers has implications for the quality of the research
Are Trump and Sanders two sides of the same coin?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Their experiences in gaining traction as presidential candidates certainly suggest so, even if their ideologies are markedly different