Insight

Native American or not: a DNA challenge

I was motivated by my mother’s stories to learn if I was part Cherokee. When I was growing up, my mother frequently spoke of her Native American ancestry. She claimed to be one-eighth Cherokee and often said that qualified her ...

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‘Welcome to Canada, terrorists.’ Love, Justin

The fact that Canada is admitting as refugees at least 250 White Helmets (Syrian terrorists) and their family members exposes the involvement of the Trudeau government, like the Harper government before it, in the illegal, US-led, regime-change operation in Syria. ...

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Making sense of Putin-Trump summit at Helsinki

To get a clearer picture of the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki, it’s important to set aside the lamestream media pile-on against Russia and look at the details. The monopoly major media in the U.S. are owned by six mega-corporations (aka ...

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Ford needs to shut down Pickering nuke

The Ford Government’s mantra is “promise made, promise kept.” But in the case of its promise to cut electricity bills by 12% there is still a long road ahead. Showing the board and CEO of Hydro One the exit and ...

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Justin doubles down on Putin and disgraces himself

To get a clearer picture of the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki, it’s important to set aside the lame-stream media pile-on against Russia and look at the details. The monopoly major media in the U.S. are owned by six mega-corporations (aka ...

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Ford is right on cap-and-trade

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is doing taxpayers a great service by ending the greedy cap-and-trade scam (C&T) invented by bankers and, naturally, supported by the Kathleen Wynne Liberals who never saw a dollar they wouldn’t snatch away from you. The ...

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Blood-sport of power vs. justice

Politics gets dirty even when it’s trivial. After observing the power politics inside the parties of both Democrats and Republicans over the past two election cycles, I am reminded of when I was first introduced to the blood sport. It was just a few months ...

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Measure basic needs, not poverty

Does Canada need a new measure of poverty? That’s what Michael Wolfson, member of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics at the University of Ottawa, recently argued. According to Wolfson, poverty (in the Canadian context) is hard to ...

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Economist Thomas Greco on wealth and power

How has extreme centralization of power and concentration of wealth come about? What are the pillars upon which the global power structure rests? How can power be decentralized and dispersed more broadly to enable people to live in peace and ...

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