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The Court Challenges Program – How your tax dollars fuel social justice activism through the courts: Dave Snow and Ryan Alford
February 13, 2025 This report uses data from the Court Challenges Program’s annual reports to show that the program’s “human rights” panel has an overwhelming progressive bias, with 96 per cent of the CCP’s “example cases” funding progressive activism. The federal government is spending several million dollars a year to do indirectly what it is […]
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Read MoreSecuring the nuclear future – How enhancing Canadian enrichment capacity can help break Russia’s grip on the global uranium supply chain: Juzel Lloyd – MLI
February 6, 2025 Canada’s enrichment potential is not only a crucial asset for its allies but also a strategic move for ensuring the security and resilience of its own nuclear power fleet. The global enrichment supply chain is undergoing a reckoning that will ripple through the nuclear industry for decades to come. Russia’s invasion of […]
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Read MoreAboriginal title has become a constitutional threat in Canada – Fraser Institute
February 05, 2025 In November, a court released seven companies from an Aboriginal land claim in New Brunswick. Wolastoqey First Nations had filed a legal action seeking a declaration of Aboriginal title over more than half the province. The seven companies, named as defendants, own most of the land subject to the claim. A judge […]
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Read MoreLarge numbers and the destruction of policy debate in Canada: Ken Coates in National Newswatch – MLI
February 5, 2025 Over the last decade, wild increases in government spending have effectively immunized Canadians to the significance of large numbers. The process started years ago, in an all-party and all-government frenzy of public spending. It expanded rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic, with governments rushing money out the door in what we now know […]
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Read MoreAs the U.S. abandons DEI, Canada doubles down: Dave Snow in The Hub – MLI
February 4, 2025 To fix higher education we must depoliticize grant funding and remove DEI considerations. While the U.S. government, corporations, and universities begin to abandon Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies, Canada has instead doubled down, continuing to make them an integral part of both government and academia. This trend has become increasingly apparent in federal granting agencies, the main source of Canada’s research […]
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Read MoreThe great paradox of the North – Policy Options
February 3, 2025 Canadians have a complex relationship with the North. While the territory is a strong symbol of our identity, and we react strongly to threats to its sovereignty, this vast region is often forgotten and chronically underfunded. The empowerment of northern institutions and communities has been slow and incomplete. Local northern authorities are […]
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Read MoreNew models of shared rule can secure better infrastructure in Indigenous communities – Policy Options
February 3, 2025 It’s time for novel and innovative ways to address the infrastructural security gap in Canada. Many First Nations communities lack infrastructural security – a term for whether governments and communities have the necessary assets to promote and maintain the economic and social well-being of their members. This problem on reserves is a […]
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Read MoreWater Security Agency Launches Agricultural Water Stewardship Policy with $1 Million Research Initiative
January 30, 2025 Today, the Water Security Agency (WSA) announced a finalized Agricultural Water Stewardship Policy (policy), a key piece of Saskatchewan’s Agricultural Water Management Program. Also, WSA is committing $1 million over the next three years to ongoing research and monitoring to ensure the policy’s long-term effectiveness. “I appreciate the contributions of the 80 […]
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Read MoreTMU doubles down on race-based admissions: Peter MacKinnon in the National Post – MLI
January 30, 2025 Ontario government should impose appropriate consequences upon the school, including withdrawal of funding. Toronto Metropolitan University remains committed to medical school admissions through “equity pathways” (admissions streams for Black, Indigenous and other equity deserving groups) though it has developed a vocabulary that obscures their discriminatory impact: “excellence, inclusion and innovation;” students “from […]
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Read MoreOpinion: Indigenous rights are more than fish – Telegraph-Journal
Jan 30, 2025 Indigenous empowerment enhances opportunity for all rather than putting a burden on one vulnerable commercial sector Read More: https://tj.news/new-brunswick/opinion-indigenous-rights-are-more-than-fish
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