Glenn Woiceshyn

So philosopher Mark Kingwell [Re: Burgled in the World’s Best Country, National Post, July 12, 2000] believes that the cause of social ills like “crime and riots and beggars on the street” is the envy created by people experiencing poverty? Leaving...

This year I will not celebrate Canada Day — as a matter of principle. I fully recognize Canada as being one of the best places to live in the world — but that relative assessment doesn’t justify the injustices perpetrated by our federal and...

Environmentalists — notorious for making doomsday predictions about man’s industrial activities while appealing to “science” — are now turning to religion to halt the “sins” of industrialization and development. Over a year...

Good government? Isn’t that an oxymoron? Many today believe so. Who can blame them? Our political system has increasingly become a chaotic jungle driven by competing pressure groups (“special interests”) seeking special “favours” and...

Over two years have passed since that fatal car crash in a Paris tunnel, and the fundamental question still burns: Who is morally responsible for the tragic and senseless death of princess Diana? Although the investigation report from the French magistrate has yet to...

How can you spot Canadians? They have “Tax me!” stamped on their foreheads. Well, not true — but it might as well be true. According to Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco, Canadians are hit with “the highest income- and profit-tax rates in the...

The stated purpose the United Alternative initiative — spawned by Preston Manning, leader of Reform Party of Canada — is to create a new party to defeat the Liberals in the next election. Unfortunately, Manning’s approach forebodes failure. His...

It’s official. Finance Minister Paul Martin told the four big banks he won’t permit them to merge. Why not? The proposed mergers would allegedly give the resulting two banks “unacceptable” powers that would not serve “public...

Capitalism — to the extent that it has existed — has demonstrated to be phenomenal at raising people’s standard of living in terms of food production, housing, transportation, communication, medicine, exciting careers opportunities, leisure time,...

To answer “Is capitalism under threat?” one must first know what capitalism is.

In Canada, two big banks — the Royal Bank and Bank of Montreal — want to merge. They mutually concluded that it would serve their long-term interests, such as make them more competitive internationally. Ditto for two other big banks — the Toronto...

After being pushed to the wall with damning evidence, U.S. President Bill Clinton finally, albeit grudgingly, confessed to the American people that he did have sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. It wasn’t the first time he cheated on his wife and then, when...

A year has passed since that fatal car crash in a Paris tunnel, and the fundamental question still burns: Who is morally responsible for the tragic and senseless death of princess Diana? Although the investigation report from the French magistrate has yet to be...

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal recently ruled that the Canadian Government must pay roughly 200,000 former and current civil servants, mostly women, up to 13 years in back-pay because of alleged discrimination against female-dominated job classifications....

Preston Manning, leader of the Reform Party, Canada’s official opposition party, wants to dethrone the ruling Liberal Party in the next election. However, Manning’s party is branded “right-wing” — a label not sufficiently popular with...