The Claremont Institute has an interesting discussion about the National Association of Science’s report on embryonic stem cell research, and the mindset behind it.
In short, the NAS thinks that human affairs should be as “value neutral” as the physical sciences. Gee, I thought Robert Openheimer showed us why that’s a nonstarter, but I guess […]
Today’s National Post (subscription required) reports that Eugene Meehan, a former national president of the Canadian Bar Association and well-published legal scholar, has argued that restricting marriage to a union of man and woman would be constitutional.
According to Meehan, C-38 undermines religious freedoms as well as federal-provincial boundaries because it’s up to the […]
The Associated Press reports that Stephen Harper has vowed to bring down the Liberal government at the next opportunity. He condemned the deal concluded by the Liberals and the NDP to prop up the government, and he was right to do so. The Liberals vowed to match $4.6b in corporate tax cuts with the same […]
Alfonso Gagliano, the disgraced former Liberal Minister of Public Works, claims that the Quebec separatists were conducting much worse business than his own government’s unethical and illegal plan to subsidise his party’s finances. Gagliano has gone as far as to suggest that “Quebec’s then-separatist provincial government spent five times more” than the Liberals did. It […]
T. Norman Van Cott has penned an article on trade protectionism. The whole is well worth reading, but there is one particular paradox that I cannot help but love. The goal of protectionism is to prevent foreign goods, be they “too cheap” like steel or “too expensive” like oil, from coming into the country, ostensibly […]
There’s a lot of debate these days in the US and abroad about the course American society is taking, and the role religion plays in shaping its politics. Despite the expectations and hopes of secularists, the religious life in the US is vigorous, and its electoral politics frequently reflects the demographics.
Despite the […]
Austin Bay makes some prognostications about the future of Canada in the wake of Adscam:
Canadians in the western and maritime provinces already dread the political power of populous Ontario. (Quebec serves as a political balance to Ontario.) If Quebec bids adieu, “remnant” Canada’s political rules will be subject to revision. Subsequent regional bickering could lead […]
The book (and movie) Fight Club contains, amongst its many attacks on consumerism, the following gem from the employee of a “major” car manufacturer:
You take the population of vehicles in the field (A) and multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B), then multiply the result by the average cost of an out-of-court settlement […]
The Calgary Herald reports on a private member’s bill in the legislature that would enable a child to sue her mother for damages sustained while the mother was pregnant. This would allow the family to sue the mother’s automobile insurance company so they can get some financial help caring for the child, who is […]
This is my post of the 3rd part of the documentary, “Nightmares,” which the CBC broadcast on Tuesday night. I also posted comments on the Sunday broadcast of Part I (and here) and Monday’s Part II. I also posted comments connecting this documentary to broader trends among contemporary ideologies.
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The bulk of the show […]
