Hi, I hope you’ve had a fantastic Christmas and are looking forward to the new year!
For almost three years, we heard “Trust the science.” It was this logic by which politicians deferred to chief medical health officers who issued mask mandates, lockdowns, and the like. Politics was supposed to stay out of it, we were told, even though no one elected these medical bureaucrats, and the policy considerations of economic impacts, charter rights, and numerous other aspects involved in lockdowns were far less narrow.
Angus Reid just proved how flimsy and contradictory this process can become as it just asked the populace whether mandates should return if cases go up. Not surprisingly, people thought others should be made to do what they were doing themselves. That leaves me wondering what happened to freedom, and also confirms that people have far more confidence in the efficacy of masks for this particular virus than is due.
CLICK HERE to read the poll and here to read my article on it.
And now, my latest writing…
Frontier Centre for Public Policy
Making the Good Guys Into Bad Guys
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called Canada the first post-national state, the implications went farther than divisive multiculturalism. Increasingly, those with the same characteristics as this country’s founders find their government, media, and academic institutions calling them extremists….
Sale of Sask Government Liquor Stores Leaves Manitoba an Odd Outlier
First Alberta, then Saskatchewan, but will Manitoba follow? Next year will be the final year for the Saskatchewan government retails alcohol—nearly 100 years after it began. This history demonstrates how long government keeps its hands on something once it starts…
Epoch Times
Most Canadians Have Positive View of Sacred Texts: Survey
Three in five (58 percent) Canadians have read or otherwise engaged with the Bible recently or at some time in their adult lives.
COP-15 Agreement Criticized as Threat to Prosperity and Freedom
News Analysis Critics are raising concerns about the new COP15 global biodiversity agreement to set aside vast swaths ...
Assisted Suicide Opponents Celebrate Reprieves in Canada and Abroad
Opponents of assisted suicide have something to cheer about this holiday season…
Western Standard
HARDING: In 2022 the righteous rebellion began
Smith, Moe, Pederson, Topp, Peckford, and Bernier were prominent champions turning the tide against anti-Canadian woke Trudeau globalism….
Poll finds majority of Canadians favour return to mask mandates as COVID cases rise
Angus Reid discovered the more often someone wore a mask without being told to, the more they thought everyone else should be told to, should COVID cases continue to rise.
HARDING: Indigenous say no one coerced them into Christianity
"We did not have Christian faith imposed upon us because of her time in the residential school or her father’s time in the trade school that he was sent to. No, it was because our family freely chose,” said Métis Catholic Priest Fr. Cristino Bouvette.
HARDING: Ignorance of faith feeds legal drift
The scriptures of the three major religions do not teach the same things.
POLL: Faith feeds good deeds
The CARDUS/Angus Reid survey also found most people rarely read holy scriptures.
Canadian taxpayers fund children’s activity book on MAiD
“This is done in a way that does not hurt the person. The medicines help them feel comfortable and peaceful,” the book explains.
Former Liberal MP blasts COP15 Biodiversity Framework
“This crap again? What's the matter with people? Are they really bored? Because if it isn't the great reset, if it isn't a just transition, there's a thousand things,” said Dan McTeague…
Experts say passive prosecution and policing leading to increasing crime
“The statistics are profound when it comes to the relationship between the stability of families, and crime,” said David Leis….