Category: Class-article
Book Review: Blip: Humanity’s 300 Year Self-Terminating Experiment With Industrialism (Clugston)
America supports 330 million people who eat food, drive cars, consume everything in sight, and utilize over 80 different minerals and metals that make our civilization work. Those non-renew [...]
Christianity 101: A reconstructed dialogue between two post-doctoral students of different backgrounds
A medical student named Li Min arrives from a foreign country to attend a university in Canada. She hopes to complete her studies in medicine and return to her own country as a doctor. On th [...]
From Where Do Ethics Originate?
“Within most religious beliefs, it is held that ethical principles originate from God. Religion usually affirms that God has planned and created the universe… Many secular philosophers think [...]
Book Review: Atheist Overreach: What Atheism Can’t Deliver (Smith)
There is much to praise in Christian Smith's Atheist Overreach: What Atheism Can't Deliver. The prose is fresh and clear, and the ideas are painstakingly presented with considerable academic [...]
The Origins of Timekeeping
Our pre-historic ancestors needed a way to predict the arrival of recurring natural phenomena. Hunters and gatherers needed to track the behaviour of animals that could be hunted, such as th [...]
EDITORIAL: Contrition and Cancel Culture
Late in May, an estimated 215 unmarked graves were reported to have been found through ground-penetrating radar on the premises of a former residential school in Kamloops, BC. [...]
To Kill a Mockingbird of Merit
“Meritocracy has flourished in the West since the advent of capitalism and particularly since the 1960s in the form of ‘equality of opportunity and before the law’… Recent books, such as tho [...]
Diversity: Our Greatest Conundrum
Is the promotion of diversity really Canada’s greatest strength, as our prime minister doesn’t tire of telling us? Or should we strive to create a society in which the rights of all citizens [...]
The Paper Pogrom: Henry Ford, the Dearborn Independent and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
“Henry Ford: an iconic self-made man, a self-taught mechanical genius, a man of vision, a fearless innovator. And a virulent anti-Semite.” The man whose use of the assembly line made the car [...]
In the News… What’s the Big Secret?
On July 5, 2019, Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, her husband Dr. Keding Cheng, and Qiu’s international Chinese students were escorted from the Winnipeg-based National Microbiology Lab (NML), Canada’s only [...]
This Planet Ain’t Big Enough for All of Us
Two hundred years ago this small planet was inhabited by one billion humans. Now Earth has 7.8 billion and possibly 10 billion by 2060. Some argue that population growth will soon slow when [...]
Left Populism: A review of an organized mobbing
I stopped watching Don Cherry’s “Coaches’ Corner” more than two decades ago. If I was watching a hockey game and his program came on, I would turn the television off. Mute was not good enoug [...]
Why Western Elites Can’t Keep Ignoring Africa’s Overpopulation Problem
In America today, talking about the problems of overpopulation is pretty much like placing oneself in the middle of two armies fighting. From the Left, you’re attacked as a Malthusian or, of [...]
Original Artwork
Original Artwork by Carol Matthews. It is easy to see that American democracy often makes mistakes in the choice of men to whom it entrusts power, but it is not so easy to say why the state [...]
In the News… The Burden of Office
The orderly functioning of society seems to require that certain powers are ceded to some individuals, on the implicit if not explicit understanding that those given such powers are meant to [...]