Canadians have a notable intolerance of rioting. That may change. Years ago on a stint as a construction worker in rural Alberta, I met a peculiar coworker. We’ll call him Travis. Travis, like most of the men on that work crew, was from the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. One…

Few figures in public life command the level of ire that Jordan Peterson does. There’s almost no social setting in which I want to hear his name spoken, so aggravating are the rants that ensue. I have friends who are willing to admit they like him. But they’re few and…

Abiy Ahmed is fighting a brutal civil war less two years after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Now new revelations are casting further doubt on the decision to award him the prize. Reports of a widespread famine spreading across northern Ethiopia has focused attention once again on embattled Ethiopian Prime…

Yesterday in a surprise announcement at the COP26 conference in Glasgow, the United States and China introduced a shared pledge to boost their cooperation on climate change. The jointly unveiled U.S.-China Joint Glasgow Declaration on Enhancing Climate Action in the 2020s commits both countries to a series of actions related…

As global leaders convene this week in Glasgow for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, the stakes could not be higher. COP26 comes less than ten years away from the often cited deadline of 2030 for the world to have reached a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. U.S…

When it comes to accountability for media bias, journalists and commentators should begin with themselves. These days when a tragedy strikes and makes its way through the national media, we are treated to a familiar cycle. First the news breaks, generating shock and sadness. Then it gets further developed, with…

Years ago in graduate school, one of my English literature seminars was treated to a peculiar presentation. The course was Energy and the Environment, and our professor decided to invite a climate activist friend of his to help connect our high minded material to the real world. Only a few…

As I read through Carlos Lozada’s journey through the major titles of the ‘Trump Era’ in What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump, one book stood out to me: Angela Nagle’s 2017 book Kill All Normies. Amongst the diatribes of RussiaGate and Rust Belt anthropological studies…

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor has a checkered past and complex motives for his public embrace of cryptocurrency. If you’ve been following the crypto space since the beginning of the latest 2020 bull run, you’ve no doubt encountered Michael Saylor. …