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New Book!
After the announcement by T'kemlups First Nation of the “discovery” of unmarked graves, many politicians, Indigenous leaders, and media cast aside balance, restraint, and caution. This excellent collection edited by C.P. Champion and Tom Flanagan helps Canadians get beyond the Grave Error.
There Can Be No Two State Solution
Given Israel's border with Lebanon and Syria, either hosting or occupied by Iran-backed terrorist groups calling for a Judenrein Islamic waqf — a greater Palestine cleansed of all Jews — for Israel to add a third border with a Palestine state would only reduce its already tattered security.
A Flawed Giant
Geoff Shepard’s detailed book subtitled Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President adds modestly to what we know about the scandal but subtracts from our understanding of why, of Nixon the man, and of his place in history, writes John Robson.
Rescuing the BNA Act
Rainer Knopff Trade And Commerce: Canada’s Economic Constitution. Malcolm Lavoie. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023. As compared to the 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Constitution Act, 1867 — still affectionately called the British North America (BNA) Act by some of us — is “likely to strike a contemporary Canadian as odd or obscure.” How to explain, for example, the “almost humorous assortment of the general and specific” that gives Ottawa power over not only “trade and commerce” but also Nova Scotia’s tiny Sable Island, or that authorizes provinces to issue saloon licenses in addition to regulating “property and civil...
Mentor to the Culture Warriors
Alberta Report was Canada’s answer to National Review, as Ted Byfield was the West’s version of Bill Buckley — and George Grant and Derek Bedson were impressed, writes C.P. Champion