A Critique of the Drug Legalization Agenda

Why legalization will increase drug use, addiction and crime... (more)

July 2009

More immigration not the answer

Don Coxe has it exactly right when he ties today's economic woes to low fertility rates rather than Wall Street. But he has it exactly wrong when he suggests that increasing immigration is the answer... (more)

May 22, 2009

The dangers of California-style marijuana dispensaries

Last summer’s New Yorker piece entitled “Dr.Kush” describes how medical marijuana is transforming America’s pot industry. In the land where referendums are authorizing the use and cultivation of marijuana for medical purposes, author David Samuels describes how 200,000 physician-sanctioned California pot users are serviced by a robust subculture of growers, dispensers, brokers, and doctors... (more)

February 28, 2009

Bus Ride to Prosperity

A recent study cites Ottawa as the prototype for Ontario’s new knowledge economy but Premier Dalton McGuinty might have saved taxpayers a few million dollars by simply noticing that IKEA has announced plans to expand its Pinecrest premises into North America’s largest. After all, who is buying Ikea product, if not the 40% of Ottawans who comprise its civil service, high tech, think tank and other members of the knowledge economy’s ‘creative classes’? More to the point, he might have asked why is a Swedish furniture maker gobbling up this lucrative market and not an Ontario furniture maker?... (more)

February 17, 2009

The West will lead the way

Stephen Harper peered into Nouriel Roubini's The Twelve Steps to Financial Disaster and his conversion on the road to Damascus was complete. Given the negative reaction to his budget, including Conservative, the prime minister is likely experiencing Gulliverian levels of frustration only made tolerable by the knowledge the Lilliputians, not having read their Roubini, aren't making runs on the banks. But then even the New York University economist who accurately predicted the global economic meltdown concedes Canada's status as a G7 country with the lowest debt-to-GDP ratio. This surely means last-in first-out of the downturn, even with multi-billion-dollar deficits.... (more)

January 31, 2009

A mess for the liberal western state

In December of 2005, Lorraine Johnson and Shelina Palmer got married. It was barely five months since Canada legalized same-sex marriage and even though their fundamentalist Mormon sect apparently forbade homosexual activity, the need to tie the knot was clearly urgent. Of course, three of Winston Blackmore's American-born celestial wives, mothers to 16 of his children, had been issued deportation orders earlier in the year so perhaps there was no time to waste. After all, immigration officers seemed intent on standardizing rules that already applied to Muslims trying to import wives into Canada... (more)

January 19, 2009