The Shaky Promise and Unfair Burden of “Decarbonized” Oil
The push for "decarbonized oil" unfairly burdens the Albertans. The Pathways Alliance plan may not deliver on its promise of a new pipeline.| C2C Journal
In the grand chambers and marble-covered halls of the Supreme Court of Canada a political drama is quietly unfolding. The federal government has launched a powerful attack on the provinces, particularly Quebec. By intervening in a Quebec case, Ottawa has … Read the rest The post Ottawa is Playing a Game of <em>Charter</em> Chicken with the Provinces appeared first on C2C Journal.| C2C Journal
European Jews had faced anti-Semitism-fuelled persecution for centuries before Adolf Hitler’s plan to exterminate every Jew saw more than 6 million lose their lives in the most horribly unimaginable ways. What isn’t as well-known, especially among today’s younger generations, is … Read the rest The post What if October 7 Had Happened Not in Israel but in Canada? appeared first on C2C Journal.| C2C Journal
The push for "decarbonized oil" unfairly burdens the Albertans. The Pathways Alliance plan may not deliver on its promise of a new pipeline.| C2C Journal
It is common wisdom among scholars to claim Canada never had a revolution. As the late Donald Smiley wrote in 1980, “Unlike Americans in the eighteenth century…Canadians never experienced the kind of decisive break with their political past which … Read the rest The post Manufactured Judgements: How Canada’s Courts Promote Indigenous Radicalism appeared first on C2C Journal.| C2C Journal
We have all grown sadly accustomed to the misuse of language, especially legal and military language, to denigrate legitimate political engagement. We see open debate labelled as hate speech, defensive national policies deliberately confused with genocide, political action disparaged in … Read the rest The post Jason Kenney and the End of All Things (Or Maybe Just a Democratic Vote) appeared first on C2C Journal.| C2C Journal
The brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk was shocking not only for its violence but for the chilling aftermath – the celebrations on the left, the gloating and the calls for more political violence. In searching for an explanation, Patrick Keeney argues that our culture has lost what Western thinkers long recognized as the “tragic vision” of human life – the idea that suffering is inevitable and even central to the human condition. Without that understanding of innate limits, politics...| C2C Journal
There is a dirty little secret about the law that Roger Song, recovered communist lawyer, knows all too well: lawyers can effectively change the laws just by changing the way they practise – by changing their “legal culture”. In Song’s … Read the rest The post The Law Society of Alberta’s Wokism Will Dissolve the Rule of Law appeared first on C2C Journal.| C2C Journal
Many Albertans want to be free. What do they mean? Do they mean free from Ottawa? From equalization, emission caps, single-use plastic regulations, and federal environmental assessment? Alberta has legitimate grievances against the intrusions of the federal government. But if … Read the rest The post Articles of Freedom: What the Constitution of an Independent Alberta Should Look Like appeared first on C2C Journal.| C2C Journal
When a student protest against rising tuition fees disrupted his classes at the University of Calgary, Jonathan Barazzutti had questions. He didn’t have to look far for the answer. While it has become popular to blame government for the financial crisis on Canadian campuses, Barazzutti uncovered that the real reason lies much closer to home. Metastasizing school bureaucracies are not only pushing tuition fees higher but also shifting the focus of universities away from the pursuit of academ...| C2C Journal
Hymie Rubenstein and Tom Flanagan investigate recent claims regarding missing students and unmarked graves at Canada’s Indian Residential Schools.| C2C Journal
Ideas that Lead| C2C Journal
Gleb Lisikh pokes at ChatGPT to see if pointed questioning and factual evidence can persuade it to amend its worldview.| C2C Journal
Ideas that Lead| C2C Journal
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
Most Canadians would likely never have heard of conservative American Christian singer Sean Feucht had city councils and government officials not spent their summers shutting him down. But this latest exercise in censorship would hardly be possible, explains constitutional lawyer Josh Dehaas, had Canada’s courts not spent the last few decades arbitrarily expanding the definition of harmful expression. In this perceptive and accessible essay, Dehaas walks through the legal decisions that hav...| C2C Journal
The criminal charges arising from the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa in February 2022 were by and large for the relatively innocuous infraction of mischief and, as the last of these cases finally conclude, most eyes are on the impending sentencing of protest leaders Chris Barber and Tamara Lich. But the sheer intensity of the prosecution of Convoy members whose activities were not as well-reported looks less like the fair administration of justice than revenge upon people who dared protest...| 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
Ideas that Lead| C2C Journal
Sweden may have inflicted Greta Thunberg and her environmental hectoring on the world, but Canada is now making its own contribution to children’s activism. Ontario climate zealots have launched a court battle – with seven children and youth named as applicants – alleging the province’s modest rollback of its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets violates their Charter rights. Exploiting children is bad enough, but in this devastating critique, retired litigation lawyer Andrew Ro...| 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
To so many central Canadians, Alberta’s sense of alienation is inexplicable, even contemptible. But for John Weissenberger, a transplant from Montreal who built his career, family and life in Alberta, what’s truly confounding is the West’s enduring faith in Canada. In this sweeping essay – by turns passionate, lyrical and coolly analytical – Weissenberger explains the roots and reasons for Alberta’s frustration, charts the many ways central Canada has plundered and sneered at this...| C2C Journal
“La révolution est dans la rue,” as the excitable French like to say. The same holds true in placid Canada. After receiving four photo radar tickets for going just slightly over the speed limit in Ottawa, John Robson declares the current proliferation of automated speed cameras to be a revolution in how Canada’s streets are policed, and an outrageous violation of the principles of fundamental justice. Robson is not alone in his outrage. While Ontario cities eagerly embrace these cash-h...| C2C Journal
When it comes to Indigenous Reconciliation, Canada’s path seems like a one-way street. Years of apologies and billions in spending have not created a spirit of co-operation and partnership but have instead led to more grievance and more obstruction of efforts to build a more prosperous Canada. There could be a better way forward. Combining his five decades of experience on Indigenous affairs with his conviction that decisions made 200-300 years ago are still alive today, lifelong academic a...| 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
Mark Carney’s energy policy threatens to stall the Canadian economy, despite claims of turning Canada into an energy superpower.| C2C Journal
Gifted students are being held back by policies that keep them in classrooms where they don’t belong, harming both them and their peers.| 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
As other countries build new cities to address housing needs, John Roe says Canada should do the same to tackle the housing crisis.| 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
Lawrence Greenspon, defence attorney in the Freedom Convoy explains why freedom of expression must prevail in Canada’s justice system.| 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
Alberta’s flat tax era drove an economic boom. Tade Haghverdian traces its rise, fall, and the roots of the Alberta Advantage.| 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
Canada's economy is at a crisis point – one that has come after a decade of disastrous policies from Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government.| C2C Journal
The nomination process used by Canadian political parties is embarrassingly undemocratic. Is election reform needed in Canada?| 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
Trudeau Liberals opposed pipelines for years until Trump’s trade threats. Now, they claim to support west-east pipelines. Why now?| 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
Buildings should be sturdy, functional, and beautiful. Modern architecture, including brutalism, is none of these things.| 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
Peter Shawn Taylor exposes the biased and deceptive playbook of Canada’s new Temperance crusaders.| 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
Starting in 2025 Manitoba will restrict the sale of machetes throughout the province. Will this lead to a national knife ban?| 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
Lorrie Clark discusses the uproar over the Alberta government’s planned public school curriculum shift towards facts and memorization.| C2C Journal
Is the horror direct at Alberta's New K-6 curriculum justified? Lifelong educator Patrick Keeney discusses the controversy and more.| 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
