Posts in International
Government swells, bursts in Canada

In my latest Loonie Politics column I note the ominous apparent paradox in which as the federal government spends and hires ever more recklessly, the national police force totally fails to attend to its core duty of protecting that government and its citizens from subversion, espionage and so on.

Words Worth Noting - November 2, 2023

“The U.S. has to decide whether its priority is to help Ukraine retain territory or worry about Putin. Fear of escalation is what the Kremlin has deliberately inculcated and which some European leaders have tacitly endorsed. As Matthew Kaminski stated in Politico, ‘The West has been better at deterring itself than at deterring Russia.’”

Derek Burney in National Post March 22, 2023

Privatize universities to root out hate and idiocy

In my latest National Post column I say the best way to get universities to stop promoting malevolent radicalism and start teaching again, and to promote actual social justice as well, is to privatize them and see what kind of education the young adults who will supposedly benefit from it are actually willing to pay full price for.