The wages of fiscal irresponsibility
According to the latest governmental estimates, Canada is heading toward a record federal budget deficit of close to $59.9 billion. That’s disturbing, yet Finance...
Politically motivated bailouts
So far this year, the governments of Canada and Ontario have handed over $9.6 billion to the failing General Motors and Chrysler corporations. For...
Speaking out against Islamist terrorists
For the past week, events marking Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) have taken place at virtually every major university in Canada. Among the noteworthy exceptions...
Canadian Federation of Students: dictating an alternate to freedom?
Academic freedom used to be a hallmark of the Canadian university system. Apart from a few fascists, communists and other cranks on campus, everyone...
The Duty of Congregants
On Feb. 13, the members of St. John’s Shaughnessy Church in Vancouver set a good example for all faithful Anglicans, by resolving to...
Blame Hamas for Gaza
On Tuesday, January 6, an Israeli missile reportedly killed more than 40 people, including children, who had sought shelter in a United Nations school...
Swiss model of medicare works best
United States President Barack Obama has touched off a lively and informative debate over the best way to reform health care, but in Canada,...
Canada must toughen its immigration qualifications
While many Canadians have been gulled into thinking that Canada has an essentially sound set of immigration policies, James Bissett, former director-general of the...
Fantino warns of terrorist threat
Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino has undertaken to set the record straight in an illuminating autobiography entitled: Duty: The Life of a Cop,...
The resurrection of the son of God
For Christians, today is Holy Saturday, the day on which the first disciples and closest followers of Jesus Christ were in utter despair, having...
A rare display of political courage
In a rare display of political courage, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown defied public opinion in Britain, by reiterating his firm opposition to the...
McGuinty didn’t do education homework
The Ontario Liberal party proclaims in its official policy platform for 2007 that, “Education is our top priority.” More specifically, the Liberals pledge, “We...
A courageous Muslim speaks out
Among post-modern multiculturalists, it’s commonplace to suppose that all cultures are of equal moral worth. Salim Mansur, professor of political science at the University...
Beware the Canadian “human rights” thought police
Thanks to a recent ruling of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, faithful Christians are free to publish their opposition to same-sex marriage in an...
Order has its hits and misses
On June 29, Governor General Michaelle Jean announced the appointment of the Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes to the Order of Canada. He is the...