How often do you hear of parents who take a sick or injured child to a hospital emergency room only to wait for untold hours before admission, treatment or at times even an assessment from overloaded admitting or triage nurses? … Read the rest The post Dead Wait: Canada’s Fatal Obsession with Public Health Care appeared first on C2C Journal.| C2C Journal
In late July CBC News reported that a Christian singer was to perform that week at the York Redoubt National Historic Site near Halifax. CBC’s Brett Ruskin got us up to speed. “Sean Feucht is a religious leader,” he told … Read the rest The post The Road to Censorship: How Canada Lost its Way on Freedom of Speech appeared first on C2C Journal.| C2C Journal
A key thing to remember about the Freedom Convoy protests of January-February 2022 was that they were wholly peaceful. Everywhere the truckers and their supporters travelled – along Prairie highways, through the Maritimes and Quebec, and down small-town main streets … Read the rest The post Three Weeks in Ottawa, Three Years in Court: The Untold Story of Canada’s “Other” Freedom Convoy Truckers appeared first on C2C Journal.| C2C Journal
Although the slide of Canada’s universities into wokism is well-known, few who don’t spend their days on-campus probably grasp just how far it has gone. Administrators chase academic respectability through “performative inclusivity” – at the expense of educational standards and even students’ health. One Toronto resident watched her beloved institution devolve deep into ideological rebranding with an expensive “campus greening”, a contrived “Indigenous landscape” and donor...| C2C Journal
The battle over climate policy has taken on a new face: that of children and youth fronting litigation demanding that courts of law require governments to take stronger action against climate change. The case of Mathur v Ontario is the … Read the rest The post The Children’s Lawsuit Against Ontario’s CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions Targets appeared first on C2C Journal.| C2C Journal
Originally meant – and heavily marketed – as a low-cost, accessible means to protect the fundamental rights of individuals, Canada’s human rights commissions and tribunals have become a dangerous farce. Ruling on everything from workplace disputes to getting bumped from an airport lineup, they’ve degenerated into a means for the easily-offended to seek vengeance. That is when they’re not undermining the essential Charter-protected rights of all Canadians at the behest of aggrieved m...| C2C Journal
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The peasants are revolting. I know. I’m among them. What has me eyeing the Bastille with hostile intent is an “AUTOMATED SPEED ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM OFFENCE NOTICE” that arrived in my mailbox informing me I’d displeased the state by driving 12 … Read the rest The post Hot Ticket: My Role in the (Coming) Downfall of Speed Cameras appeared first on C2C Journal.| C2C Journal
Reconciliation” has been the watchword for Canada’s relationship with its Indigenous peoples for the last 10 years. The federal government grandiosely defines Indigenous Reconciliation as “a renewed, nation-to-nation, government-to-government, and Inuit-Crown relationship based on recognition of rights, respect, co-operation, and … Read the rest The post Restoring Canada Special Series<br>Part IX: Owning Up: A New Path to Indigenous Reconciliation appeared first on C2C Journal.| C2C Journal
Prime Minister Mark Carney recently declared that, “Canada is the most European of non-European countries.” With Chile, Argentina and Australia (among many others) likely to object to such a characterization, Peter Shawn Taylor’s counterclaim that Canada is the “most U.S. of all non-U.S. countries” seems a much safer bet, given the centuries of shared history, geography, culture and trade. In this latest installment of C2C Journal’s Restoring Canada Special Series, Taylor examines...| C2C Journal
The global decline in fertility rates has grown so severe that some demographers now talk about “peak humanity” – a looming maximum from which the world’s population will begin to rapidly decline. And though the doomsayers who preach about the dangers of overpopulation may think that’s a good thing, it is in fact an existential threat. Canada has not escaped the decline: birth rates have fallen steadily since 1959, during which time we built a massive welfare state without the manpo...| C2C Journal
The sight of King Charles III receiving salutes and inspecting troops in Ottawa before delivering last month’s Speech from the Throne was more than just a bit of nostalgia. It was a potent reminder of Canada’s history and distinct political culture. In this provocative essay, Jamie Weir argues that Canada, facing a frostier neighbour to the south, should lead a revitalization of links among Commonwealth nations. Canada alongside Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom could form a m...| C2C Journal
Gender-neutral washrooms promise equality—but at what cost? As urinals disappear, we’re trading efficiency, hygiene, and common sense for inclusivity.| C2C Journal
Canada’s recent federal election did not deliver what conservatives wanted. But after the obligatory post-mortems and doomsaying, what is most needed now is a look to the future. Conservatives can still work for a better Canada, one stronger and more prosperous, and over the next few weeks C2C Journal will present clear-eyed assessments by top authors of the issues that will drive Canada in the years ahead – the economy, citizenship, the federal structure, Alberta’s place within North A...| C2C Journal
From “non-crime hate incidents” to two-tier justice, the UK’s war on free speech deepens. As immigration surges, censorship and unrest grow.| C2C Journal
Is Mark Carney unintentionally helping Alberta separatists? His globalist policies and climate agenda could be driving Western alienation.| C2C Journal
A flood of advanced new artificial intelligence models is upon us, led by China’s DeepSeek. They purport to “think” and even to explain their reasoning. But are they really a step forward? In this original investigation, Gleb Lisikh – who previously took on ChatGPT to probe its political biases – engages with DeepSeek in a debate about systemic racism. Lisikh finds it doesn’t just spout propaganda but attempts to convince him using logical fallacies and outright fabrications. In a...| C2C Journal
School violence in Canada is rising—dramatically. Brock Eldon argues Canadian teachers promoting DEI in schools may be fueling the crisis.| C2C Journal
The push for secularism through Quebec Bill 21 and 84 reveals an exclusionary vision of identity in the name of a narrow “common culture.”| C2C Journal
DEI programs in Canadian universities threaten academic freedom and fuel political bias. Here are 6 steps to restore intellectual diversity.| C2C Journal
People, cultures and landscapes vary greatly around the world, but totalitarianism’s black heart is basically the same everywhere. And so it is in long-suffering Myanmar – or Burma – where for most of the last 35 years a military dictatorship has frustrated democracy, crushed dissent, murdered opponents and sought to snuff out the very will to resist. In one of C2C’s occasional forays into global affairs, Patrick Keeney travels to the Thailand-Myanmar frontier to visit a place where l...| C2C Journal
Free speech rights survived the Online Harms Act—for now. But Censorship in censorship threats remain. St. Thomas Aquinas could offer insight.| C2C Journal
The Oscar-nominated documentary Sugarcane, focused on a Kamloops residential school, withholds key facts and encourages unfounded conclusions.| C2C Journal
When the Métis were included in Canada’s 1982 Constitution as “aboriginal peoples”, some members complained that they’d been handed an “empty box” compared to the ample rights and treaties offered to Indian and Inuit people. Since then, however, Canada’s court system has been hard at work filling up that box. Now, with the signing of a “nation-to-nation” treaty late last year, Manitoba Métis have a box that’s positively overflowing with new rights, powers and federal cas...| C2C Journal
Rather than breaking barriers to knowledge, these days universities seem more adept at breaking the norms of academic conduct. An apparently endless stream of cases involving data manipulation, plagiarism, retractions and other errors and deceptions by researchers ranging from obscure graduate students to world-famous scientific names is plaguing academia in Canada and around the world. But is this avalanche of academic malpractice – what one scientist bemoaned as “corrupt, incompetent, o...| C2C Journal
“It’s hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.” Such was Thomas Sowell’s withering critique of bureaucracy – more relevant today than ever. The legendary economist was born to poor sharecroppers and began his career as an avowed Marxist before transforming himself into an insightful and influential critic of the left and all its smug self-regard. In this concise tribute...| C2C Journal
The English lyrics to “O Canada” have changed numerous times to keep pace with current fashion, most recently to insert the gender-neutral line “In all of us command.” Meanwhile, the French lyrics – including the ancient-sounding “As is thy arm ready to wield the sword, so also is it ready to carry the cross” – have remained fixed since 1880. This discrepancy in the treatment of the heritage of English and French Canada is not limited to the national anthem. Looking into the f...| C2C Journal
Many Canadians think of the Supreme Court as a wise and august body that can be trusted to give the final word on the country’s most important issues. But what happens when most of its justices get it wrong? Former government litigator Jack Wright delves into the court’s landmark ruling upholding the federal carbon tax and uncovers mistakes, shoddy reasoning and unfounded conclusions. In this exclusive legal analysis, Wright finds that the key climate-related contentions at the heart of t...| C2C Journal
Human rights: we all have some, although many of us apparently want ever-more of them. Although they’re written into constitutions, they seem to be changing all the time. Activists demand new rights, human rights tribunals and courts discover or invent new ones almost out of thin air, and politicians are quick to take credit for granting or defending them. But where do human rights actually come from? And what are they based on? Patrick Keeney provides a timely reminder of Christianity’s ...| C2C Journal
All of us have a favourite tune – perhaps a whole list of them. But when was the last time any of us asked ourselves what melody actually is, where it came from or how it differs from other pleasing sounds? The animating spirit of music, melody travels deep into the human soul, moves the heart like no other sound and can be traced to the dawn of humanity. But what is it? Probing the evanescent force that is melody, David Solway finds that while the metaphysics may remain forever enigmatic, ...| C2C Journal
In its drive to stop climate change, the Justin Trudeau government in 2022 mandated that Canada get to a “net-zero” power grid by 2035, a time-frame subsequently extended to 2050. But is that feasible? In this exclusive analysis, nuclear physicist Jim Mason crunches the numbers to determine what would be required to replace electricity from fossil fuels with zero-emitting power. It turns out it would take so long and cost so much – hundreds of billions of dollars – that the policy is ...| C2C Journal
Decades of government neglect and underfunding have left the Canadian Armed Forces a depleted, demoralized and nearly shattered force. The country is increasingly being ignored or even shunned by its traditional allies at a time when an increasingly dangerous world poses escalating national security risks. Canada must urgently rethink and rebuild its military to meet these challenges, safeguard its sovereignty and fulfill its obligations on the world stage, writes David Redman. In this clear-...| C2C Journal
Canada’s beleaguered economy has become beset with strikes called by unions demanding double-digit wage hikes in an era of constrained budgets and slim profit margins. The latest one, by Canada Post, is already inflicting great damage and threatens to drag on, perhaps right up to Christmas. Yet recent legislation passed by the Liberal government (pushed by the NDP) has made it more likely that major strikes will occur, and even more difficult for employers to try to continue functioning. Th...| C2C Journal
Few things about Donald Trump’s recent election are causing worse disarray worldwide than the incoming U.S. President’s vow to erect a tariff wall against all imports in order to spur a resurgence in American manufacturing might. Canada’s up to $200-billion-a-year worth of oil and natural gas exports lie at stake, feared to be among the new Administration’s tariff targets. But how strong is the basis for such fears? Probing the political psychology of Trump’s economic and trade poli...| C2C Journal
The Justin Trudeau government’s decade-long determination to drive immigration numbers ever-higher – a policy that public outcry now has it scrambling away from – has obscured a rather important and discouraging phenomenon: more and more people are choosing to leave Canada. Emigration is the flipside of the immigration issue – a side that has been largely ignored. With the best and brightest among us increasingly leaving for better opportunity elsewhere, this growing trend reveals Can...| C2C Journal
“The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify,” cautioned journalist Darrell Huff in his famous 1954 book How to Lie with Statistics. It’s still useful advice, although Canadians might hope such a warning isn’t required for the work of Statistics Canada. In an exclusive C2C investigation, Peter Shawn Taylor takes apart a recent Statcan study to reveal its use of controversial, woke and unsci...| C2C Journal
Most Canadians have come to agree that the federal carbon tax needs to go. But while the rallying cry “Axe the Tax!” has been a deadly partisan tool for Pierre Poilievre, it does not constitute a credible election campaign platform, let alone a coherent environmental policy for a new government. The Conservative Party needs to develop both, writes Robert Lyman. The election this past week of Donald Trump as U.S. President creates an urgency to remake Canada’s climate policy on more real...| C2C Journal
It’s a central tenet of the free-market economy: a corporation’s job is to maximize investment returns to its shareholders. Bluntly, to make money. And “shareholder proposals” have been a powerful tool enabling investors to pressure a company’s board to take a particular action to increase its value. In recent years, however, activist groups have been weaponizing shareholder proposals to pressure companies into pursuing ideological goals, especially environmental and “progressive...| C2C Journal
Amidst the jostling theories about the nature of education, the philosopher G.K. Chesterton once succinctly summarized it as “simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” But what if that soul is being torn apart from within? What if today’s kids are told to despise almost everything about yesterday, in order to prepare them to overturn society tomorrow? James Pew traces the path of so-called “critical pedagogy” from the fever-dream of a Brazilian commu...| C2C Journal
In our largely “post-truth” society, the validity of a given statement is increasingly assessed based on who is making it. There are even those who believe that only some should be allowed to say certain things – while others should be scorned or even imprisoned for uttering the same words. This increasingly describes the discursive landscape concerning Canada’s Indian Residential Schools and whether Indigenous children disappeared from and/or were murdered there. Drawing on his lived...| C2C Journal
Hymie Rubenstein discussed a mysterious “Sacred Covenant” that was signed recently between two Canadian Catholic organizations and the Kamloops First Nation.| C2C Journal
