Why An Elimination Strategy Should Be Implemented Now — Many across the western world have watched with some envy as New Zealanders now attend sporting events and concerts, and are enjoying a greater amount of freedom. Last spring New Zealand moved ahead with an elimination strategy; deeming that the most rational approach in grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic. The…

Perhaps the most misapplied work of literature is George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. It is often perceived as a warning, a harbinger of things to come. For the most part, the novel is a portrayal of things as they are, or I suppose, were. Based primarily off of Stalinism, it demonstrates…

The Peril of a Continued Trump Presidency — First, I need to grant that I am a Canadian and it is strange, perhaps, that I may assert such a strong desire for a particular outcome in the upcoming US Presidential election. For some, in this circumstance and in others, this can be accounted for by partisanship. A desire…

Yesterday morning, during Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s now daily press briefing, he noted to the public that with attempting to mitigate the COVID-19 outbreak in Canada, “It doesn’t depend on me, it depends on you.” It was upon the shoulders of Canadians to “answer the call of duty” and…

In fact, like our fellow citizens, Rieux was caught off his guard, and we should understand his hesitations in the light of this fact; and similarly understand how he was torn between conflicting fears and confidence. When a war breaks out, people say: “It’s too stupid; it can’t last long.”…

Revolutionaries are, by their nature, powerful and single-minded personalities. Almost invariably they start from a position of weakness vis-à-vis the political environment and rely for their success on charisma and on an ability to mobilize resentment and to capitalize on the psychological weakness of adversaries in decline. -Henry Kissinger…

Another round of insanity hits Jordan Peterson after appearing on Rex Murphy’s Youtube channel — On October 9th there was a fairly odd and irregular occurrence. A brand new YouTube channel had been just started up by an elderly Newfoundlander and one of the first videos released whipped up a maelstrom of petty acrimony on Twitter and elsewhere online. Expect the unexpected in our online…