I write under a pseudonym because, if my colleagues were to find out about my criticisms of this field, I would be unable to find any employment in academia. That someone who critiques the axioms of a field of study feels compelled to write under an assumed name tells you […]
«If you feel like you gave the majority of your life to your country and you’re not being listened to, that is a hard pill to swallow. That’s why she was upset,» said Roger Witthoeft, the brother of Ashli Babbitt, in an interview with The New York Times. Babbitt served […]
Lately, it has become fashionable to debate what is, or is not, “money-printing” by central banks. This debate is natural, due to the extreme policy nature of 2020, with massive fiscal expenditures, huge increases in central bank balance sheets, and changes in central bank inflation targets. It’s important to know […]
How far can the political leaders of rule-breaking politicians push law-abiding citizens to follow pandemic lockdown rules which seem increasingly arbitrary, nonsensical and unfair. «Don’t go to church» coming from governments whose members flew out of the country for sun and fun. Finally, after almost a year into this pandemic, […]
Many market participants continue to be surprised by the resiliency of the stock market, even in the face of rising bond yields and the recent scene at the capitol. Banks tend to prefer steeper yield curves, and that’s exactly what the market has been giving them. This is the second […]
The tests, which claimed to «diagnose COVID-19 in less than an hour,» were sourced from Ottawa company Spartan Bioscience Inc. «The Government of Canada has a procurement contract with Spartan to secure supply of these devices,» a Health Canada briefing note from May stated. «The contract is conditional on the […]
Last month, my 8-year-old sister came home from school deflated and torn. Thankfully, her school took the incident seriously, and the boy ended up writing a letter of apology to my sister, saying he was «sorry for being mean» and that he «will work harder at being a better friend». […]
Bitcoin continues to be the investment industry’s swaggering upstart, derided by some, not trusted by many but undoubtedly making its volatile mark. The swings are a reminder of its notorious volatility, with its price nevertheless having more than quadrupled over the past year. The cryptocurrency’s market capitalization of around US$575 […]
By Christine Massey, M.Sc., exclusively for People For Justice Canada Further down this page you will see a screenshot of a Freedom of Information (FOI) request that was submitted to the Public Health Agency of Canada and many other Canadian institutions requesting evidence that is absolutely essential (but not on […]
The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party . Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words. Nineteen Eighty-Four was written in 1949. Meanwhile, […]