Thoughts on BC Politics and More

Leader Dallas Brodie has said, among other things, that Indigenous rights are a bigger problem than Trump tariffs, and that “DEI must d-i-e.”  Fringe views have rarely been more emphatically or routinely expressed in the BC legislature than they have in the current sitting. Much of the parliamentary process works toward moderating differences, but a combination of circumstances has created a window where a small handful of MLAs are pushing into extreme territory, past usual conventions. Vancouver-Quilchena MLA Dallas Brodie is leading the charge ... CLICK HERE for the full story

Canada employs 357,000 people in the federal civil service. While the nation is enjoying scarcity of everything from health care services to housing, the one thing we don’t lack for is bureaucrats. The Public Health Agency alone has 4,211 employees within it. Despite this embarrassment of riches when it comes to available, qualified bureaucrats, the Government of Canada has appointed as President of the Public Health Agency a person who appears to be wholly unqualified for such an important position. Why would they do this?  CLICK HERE for the full story 

The university has long been a battleground of competing visions — a place where ideas clash, convictions are tested, and truth is pursued through disciplined inquiry. But over the past four decades, since at least the publication of Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind in 1987, critics from across the ideological spectrum have sounded the alarm over the academy’s slow drift away from truth. For Bloom, this was no mere academic concern; it signaled nothing less than a civilizational crisis. At stake was not simply the structure of the curriculum, but the very essence of the university — its calling to shape minds capable of judgment, hearts oriented toward moral seriousness, and communities bound together by an unyielding fidelity to truth ... CLICK HERE for the full story

Segregation is a dirty word these days. But not every effort at separating individuals is a bad thing. And some attempts at enforced inclusion can yield provably disastrous results. A case in point is the treatment of gifted students in Canada’s rigid, DEI-focused public school system. Combining personal experience with rigorous academic research and recent education policy changes, Jonathan Barazzutti charts the damage being done to exceptional students – and to their average-ability classmates – by keeping them in classrooms where they clearly don’t belong. Barazzutti argues it is time for schools to let gifted students soar ... CLICK HERE for the full story