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How can we tell who to believe?
Al Gore, David Suzuki, and Glen Pearson: What are they up to?
David Suzuki and eco-fascism
Light-headed legislation
Light bulb economics – A personal illumination
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Left, Right & Center – A re-definition
Left, Right & Center – Bans
Left, Right & Center – Environmentalism
Left, Right & Center – Political correctness and discrimination
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The Forest City Institute:
Civic Governance In The City Of London, Ontario
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Human Rights Commissions vs Freedom of speech
Affluence represents the solution to environmental challenges rather than the problem. We confront daily the absurdity of a global warming cult that demonizes prosperity while excusing the greater pollution of poverty and subsistence living. Mysticism replaces science as ancient dances and emotional appeals substitute for evidence, all while natural forces like the sun receive no credit for climate variation. Wealth creation through technology and industry offers the genuine path to a healthier planet, yet envy drives calls to punish success and regress to need-based existence.
This same impulse manifests in anti-war protests that demand troop withdrawals without addressing the realities of confronting violence or achieving lasting peace. Protectionist arguments against free trade similarly ignore how open markets and capital investment elevate living standards for all, including labor. Unions and politicians peddle restrictions that ultimately harm the very workers they claim to champion by undermining the prosperity that depends on voluntary exchange and accumulated capital.
Locally, schemes to license landlords expose government overreach, transforming property rights into privileges granted by the state and burdening tenants with hidden taxes. Ownership demands the freedom to rent, lease, or use one’s property without permission-seeking.
When reason and individual rights prevail over envy, control, and collectivism, the direction taken stands Just Right.
Emergency rooms turn into battle zones where patients wait 24 hours for beds and ambulance crews linger in hallways, yet politicians insist on expanding the very model that creates the crisis. Socialized health care operates as the ultimate pyramid scheme that enriches early participants at the expense of later generations, transforming a supposed right into a privilege granted only to the severely ill.
Official bilingualism exposes its one-sided reality, prioritizing French in practice despite demographics where Spanish, Arabic, and Polish outrank it, while fostering an entitlement mentality that drains public resources on translation and settlement services. Multicultural funding divides rather than unites, prompting calls for integration that still rely on taxpayer dollars to promote separate cultural organizations.
Proposed smoking bans in cars with children serve as symbolic gestures of nanny-state control, using vulnerable groups as legal wedges to erode private rights and ignore the slippery slope already crossed in bars, restaurants, and beyond. Drug policies rest on historical falsehoods rather than genuine health concerns, fueling prohibition that contradicts evidence and inflates enforcement costs. Downtown renewal schemes repeat the pattern of government intervention that ignores taxation and regulation as root causes of decline.
These contradictions highlight the steady assault on individual freedoms in the name of collective protection. Only by reclaiming personal responsibility do matters become Just Right.
Polls expose a curious public confusion between fact and fiction. Many in Britain insist Sherlock Holmes walked the streets of London as flesh and blood, while dismissing Winston Churchill as mere legend. Such blurring of reality and myth reveals how powerfully stories shape perception long after events fade.
We see the same dynamic play out in contemporary policy debates. Canadians celebrate an MRI scan that costs only a parking fee after seven months of waiting, as if this represents some triumph rather than a rationed system’s quiet cruelty. The satisfaction with mediocrity masks the invisible costs borne by others denied timely care.
Political figures receive similar mythic treatment. John Tory garners praise as the ideal conservative leader despite a record of equivocation and electoral failure. Talk of principles clashes with actions that mirror liberal instincts, leaving voters with no clear choice.
Meanwhile, advocates for human rights commissions invoke ‘hatred kills’ to justify speech restrictions, citing tragic cases while omitting inconvenient details like the ideological motives behind certain crimes. The impulse to control expression under the guise of protection echoes ancient myths used to maintain power.
Ideas endure far longer than the individuals or events that spawn them, whether drawn from ancient legends or modern political narratives. Distinguishing the symbolic from the factual remains essential in every age. Only in this way do we discover what is Just Right.
