"Humans -- KEEP OUT" is becoming the new motto of Parks Canada. A Fraser Institute report -- Off Limits: How Radical Environmentalists are Shutting Down Canada's National Parks -- documents how Parks Canada got hijacked by environmentalists who are blocking future...
Glenn Woiceshyn
My Home-School Experience Demonstrates the Benefit of a Rational Approach to Education
It was painful to watch. Our bright 9-year-old son was rapidly losing his love of learning. Dissatisfied with his private school, the best we could find, I decided to postpone my second career as a writer and home-school him--a choice many Americans are forced to make...
Governments Sacrifice Humans for Bears
The government has become an agent of nature-worshiping environmentalists who value pristine nature above human life.
The Fundamental Cause of Today’s Social Ills
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 aside all the...
Why I Won’t Celebrate Canada Day This July
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 provincial governments....
Supreme Court Should Protect Right to Abortion in Current “Partial-Birth” Abortion Case
“Partial-birth” abortion, most commonly known as intact dilation and extraction (D&X), is designed primarily to be used in the case of 5- and 6-month-old fetuses that are dying, malformed, or threaten the woman’s health or life.
Industrialization: The Environmentalist’s Version of Original Sin
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 ago in a full-page article ("Keep Faith...
The Basis of Good Government: The Protection of Individual Rights
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 handouts from government....
Lessons from History: Who Killed Princess Diana?
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...
Emotionalism Explains Mindless Violence at Colorado High School
With guns and homemade bombs, two students executed a well-planned assault on fellow students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing 15 including themselves and one teacher) and injuring many others. Eric Harris (18) and Dylan Klebold (17),...
Slavery By Taxation
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 industrialized world as a...
Collectivism by Default in Canada: The Right Adopts Leftist Principles
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 strategy involves...
Justice for Elia Kazan
Kazan was morally right to inform on these treasonous criminals — to do otherwise would have been to sanction the destruction of his freedom-loving country by its worst enemies.
Environmentalism, Eco-Terrorism and Endangered Species
An underground environmental group called Earth Liberation Front (ELF) claimed responsibility for incinerating four ski lifts (October 1998) and three buildings worth 12 $million at Vail, Colorado. Vail's plans to expand its ski area apparently clashed with...
How Finance Minister Paul Martin denies shareholder rights
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 interest."The ominous implication is that...
Hatred of Ability Masked as Concern for the Poor
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, recreation,...
United Nations Declaration of Human Rights Destroys Individual Rights
The UN doesn’t openly attack individual rights; that would be rejected outright by freer countries. It destroys rights by internal corruption — by perverting the meaning of rights into its exact opposite.
Bork and Dole join the forces attacking Microsoft
The following question was emailed to Glenn Woiceshyn, by an ABC reporter, regarding the government's assault on Microsoft. Reprinted below is Glenn's reply.Q: What do you think of the latest addition of Bob Dole and Robert Bork to the anti-Microsoft team? Do you...
Is Capitalism Under Threat?
To answer “Is capitalism under threat?” one must first know what capitalism is.
Bank Mergers vs. “Public Interest”
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 Dominion Bank and...
Environmentalism and Eco-Terrorism
Radical environmentalists are believed to be behind the recent (Aug. 2, 1998) bombing of two sour gas wells in Beaverlodge, Alberta. Luckily, nobody was hurt and only a small amount of deadly gas was released before automatic shut-off valves kicked in.According to a...
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