Writing for Troy Media, the Canadian Constitution Foundation’s Derek From argues that the province of Quebec’s Ethics and Religious Culture course violates Charter of Rights’s freedom of religion section: On February 17th, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) decided that… Continue Reading
A little girl draws a picture of her Dad with a gun and a 26-year-old Kitchener, Ontario, man gets stripped by police. From The Toronto Star: Sansone said he went to pick up his three children on Wednesday and was… Continue Reading
I know we have a few academic-types around the League, so I thought I’d share this post by Frances Woolley, an Economics professor at Carleton University (Go Ravens!). In it, she asks, “why is research higher status than teaching?” But… Continue Reading
Building off of Erik’s front page post on the League’s commenting policy, I thought it appropriate to bring it up here. I like the League’s policy, and we’ll follow it here. Like most of you, much of what drew me… Continue Reading
The Ottawa Citizen‘s Dan Gardner has a good analysis of the way in which environmentalists have undermined their case with their extreme rhetoric: If we fully develop Alberta’s oilsands and burn the oil they produce, we will raise the temperature… Continue Reading
I know there are some strong feelings about Tim Horton’s around here, and some even stronger feelings about Anne Murray (which I totally don’t understand). So, for all of you looking for cracks in the facade of Canadian unity, I… Continue Reading
There’s a bit of a scandal brewing up here. The Ottawa Citizen‘s Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher broke the story that the servers of a call centre with ties to the Conservative Party were used for misleading and potentially illegal robocalls… Continue Reading
For quite some time, it has been a standard policy of the Canadian government (stretching back before the current government) to intervene on behalf of any Canadian sentenced to death in a foreign land. For one person, though, the government’s… Continue Reading
Okay, so this could be seen as my second consecutive post that attacks the wealthy. I don’t mean to get into any sort of class warfare, but, sometimes, things just come up. Recently, Jonathan Kay (an editor for National Post)… Continue Reading
Woe is the lowly millionaire with nothing to do but worry about what might fill up his time: I’m a 34-year-old father of two living in Regina. My wife and I plan to retire in eight years with a net… Continue Reading