Analysis
Expert analysis to help explain and break down current Canadian and international news events.
Asymmetries in the workplace do not necessarily reflect gender discrimination
As I’m writing this, the October 30 conversation between Jordan Peterson and Helen Lewis accumulated over six million views on...
Does Jody Wilson-Raybould’s solicitor-client privilege stand up to scrutiny?
It is settled law in Canada that once a client has revealed communications he has had with his lawyer, solicitor-client...
YouTube attempts to improve recommendations by burying controversial, borderline content, betraying its own founding principles
If YouTube does not step up to the plate and spell out some clear standards, those voices on the outskirts...
MILLER: We need a smart fiscal policy. And quick.
Judging by his uproarious explanation of how taxes work, it’s fair to assume that the only idea Trudeau has in...
Trudeau’s treatment of Wilson-Raybould a betrayal of his feminist values and Indigenous reconciliation
Feminism and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, two of the major pillars of this government’s policy making, have begun to crumble...
WILKINSON: Russia advances into the Arctic while Canada watches on
A global battle for control of the Arctic has been festering for years with Russia exerting its power and Canada...
Esports continue to grow at breakneck speeds
Esports are here, and it seems like they won't be going away anytime soon.
Lindsay Shepherd successful because she’s a “young white female face”: professor
First, it was her views. Now, her gender?
NEWSFLASH: Government interference is a threat to free speech everywhere
The director of Reporters Without Borders in Latin America told a parliamentary committee Tuesday that determining what is “legitimate information...
WILKINSON: Canadians are left suffering as Trudeau funds the world
This time, it was a pledge of $180 million over three years to support the Global Partnership on Education.
50% of Albertans see separation as a real possibility, Western Canada Party dominates poll
The west appears to want in, or if all else fails, out.
WAKERELL-CRUZ: Politics have become one big LARP session
People are escaping their normal, boring lives by dressing up as characters and getting mad about politics.
Radical feminist ideology informs Canada’s prostitution laws
Because radical feminist ideology informs Bill C-36, men now face incarceration for the “crime” of offering financial compensation for sexual...
DZSURDZSA: If you’re a populist, the Liberals think you’re poor and stupid
The new political division is between the devotion to your own (your own family, your own community, your own people)...
LINDSAY: Judicial insanity – A man with 27,500 fentanyl pills goes free
The judge has an extremely liberal view of the Charter of Rights.
“Democratic” socialism is a sham: Western countries can’t go down the road travelled by Venezuela and others
In an interview, last October, former Prime Minister Stephen Harper ascribed the continued fascination with Marxism to Western academics that...
The “end of history” and identity politics on the left and right
I think one of the explanations for the rise of identity politics movements is the ascendancy of what is sometimes...
DZSURDZSA: China is Canada’s public enemy number one
What Canada requires is new leadership willing to approach a consistent foreign policy towards all foreign powers and not the...
62% of New Brunswick residents oppose federal carbon tax
According to the poll, which interviewed 1203 New Brunswick residents, 71% of the sample population are worried about rising energy...
Canada Pension Plan moving forward with China investments
Canada’s massive pension fund is coming under scrutiny for investing heavily in China amid political tensions and a predicted decline...