At a recent online lecture hosted by Ralston College, Dr. Theodore Dalrymple talked about H.G. Wells book, the Time Machine. He reminded me of the Eloi and the Morlocks of that book. The Eloi elite lived on the surface of the earth, vegetarian, peaceful, effeminate, and shy. The Morlocks lived below, running the machinery of the earth; they were hard and physical people.
I have one hope in this pandemic crisis. I hope that Canadians appreciate the importance of freedom more than ever.
Having lost them in the clutter of orders for vaccines, lockdowns and masks, we may understand how important they are.
Who wants regulation of alcohol counselors and alcohol treatment facilities? Who cares? Whose interests are served? Ralph Klein, our beloved premier, often asked in Cabinet meetings, “Who wants this law and why?” What a brilliant question. Who wants regulation of…
The Alberta government should immediately study a full program of truck and transport inspections and licenses for vehicles crossing Alberta from British Columbia. This urgent demand flows from my brooding on the manifold risks that Alberta citizens run every day…
I have to admit I’m grateful for the desperate cold that we have been suffering these past weeks. Surprised but grateful. Grateful that our political masters have apparently solved Global Warming. And surprised that all it took was the simple…
An old law professor of mine said you can’t suck and blow at the same time. Turns out you can. The councillors that so strenuously object to Uber have many arguments that, on their face, sound compelling. People do not…
The young child cried out, “The emperor has no clothes”. Only then did the emperor realize what he had to do – get dressed. In the late 1970s when I moved to Alberta, I was a self-selecting economic/political migrant. I…
I would have thought that we had more than enough recorded experience to disabuse even the most stubborn of us that big government planning is effective or useful. But still we persist in applying this solution to all manner of…
Jeffrey MacIntosh (TSE Chair in Capital Markets Law at U of T) is doing a series of articles at the National Post regarding the proposed ‘single national regulator’ that are a must read: National Regulator 1: The Grand Market Regulator:…
The loss of electrical power in downtown Calgary has made national news–it is a news story. Such a story has never occurred in Canada before. It prompts me to ask some questions. Would the loss of power in downtown Calgary…