In my latest Epoch Times column, I describe how our universities are unraveling financially and academically as part of a cascading set of policy disasters in which the one thing we never do is go back and reverse previous mistakes instead of piling on fresh ones.
“Jean Chretien’s government wants the shade from the tree, but aren’t willing to do anything to keep that tree strong.”
Canadian Alliance MP Monte Solberg quoted in the National Post March 31, 2003 [the specific context was Solberg supporting the second Gulf War but it obviously applies far more broadly as well as chronically to politicians and the Canadian Armed Forces]
In my latest Epoch Times column, I ask for empirical evidence to support Chrystia Freeland’s Davos claim that decarbonization means “more jobs, more growth, more manufacturing” and instead find evidence that she lives in a dream world where wishes are solid and facts are just mist.
In my latest National Post column I warn my posterity, and yours, why artificial intelligence is far and away the most dangerous and urgent problem they face.
“the fate of all mankind I see is in the hands of fools”
King Crimson “Epitaph” from In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)
In my latest Epoch Times column I ask how governments can aspire to fix the weather, the economy and our morals when they can’t even figure out how not to block all our driveways every time it snows hard.
In my latest Epoch Times column, I ponder how our then-defence minister could possibly have said an advanced weapons system was “en route” to Ukraine courtesy of Canada back in April 2023 when in fact it wasn’t, still isn’t, and nobody seems to have a clue as to why.
In my latest Epoch Times column, I take up my own challenge from my 2023 year-ender and suggest five fundamental improvements we need in public policy in 2024.