Reading Time: 4 minutes Canadian talk radio show hosts like Dave Rutherford, Lowell Green, Jerry Agar, Brian Lilley and Charles Adler were all influenced by him
Tag: Socialism
Pandemic exposes weaknesses of government intervention
Reading Time: 5 minutes Governments boasted of having “Canadians backs” while failing to provide basic health services, rapid testing, comprehensive tracing, and the timely roll-out of vaccinations
NDP fortunes on the wane in federal politics
Reading Time: 4 minutes Will it dare move closer to the centre as the responsible left-wing vote in the face of a Liberal party bent on cracking the trillion-dollar debt barrier?
What did Germans really think of Hitler?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Nazi approach was a blend of carrots and sticks, resting on three pillars: popularity, tradition and coercion
What Trump’s leadership style says about us
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s time to reflect not just on what politics is doing to our democracy but what it’s doing to us
Memories of Walter Reuther, an American labour giant
Reading Time: 3 minutes Reuther had his finger in everything from labour negotiations to legislation to civil rights to election campaigns
Economic freedom on the wane worldwide
Reading Time: 3 minutes The policy response to COVID-19 has put more of the global economy into government hands, threatening economic freedom globally
Socialism doesn’t help community, it destroys it
Reading Time: 4 minutes When people believe it’s the government’s job to help someone, they stop doing it themselves
Chile is no longer a beacon of stability
Reading Time: 4 minutes Its downfall as Latin America’s freest economy will be next if socialist activists have their way and rewrite the constitution
The Democratic fight to take on Trump heats up
Reading Time: 4 minutes The race for a presidential nominee is turning out to be a battle between progressives and moderates for the soul of the Democratic Party