When Canada’s Aboriginal population suffers these days, at least some Aboriginal leaders are to blame—and not racism or a denial of rights. That’s why a recent open letter to China’s president from some native chiefs was disingenuous. Mark Milke explains ….

An expensive Quebec separatist says adieu. C2C Journal’s Mark Milke argues it’s long overdue….

When Hitchens describes Orwell as “sensitive to intellectual hypocrisy and was well-tuned to pick up the invariably creepy noises which it gives off,” the same lucidity applies in exact measure to Hitchens….

Back in the 1990s when I lived in Japan, an American journalist whose name I’ve long forgotten gave a speech in the coastal city of Kobe. In it, he was critical of that country’s media. He argued they were timorous in covering the Japanese royal family and also government. He added that the only other…

Some think the welfare state was the 20th century’s greatest achievement; Mark Milke thinks it was achieved by putting future generations deep in hock….

Liberalism’s 20th century victories—and methods—led to its recent demise….

China just cracked down on religion. But they’re not alone: see Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea……

Lord Black is properly concerned about prison reform; he is mistaken as to why many Canadians still want longer and tougher prison sentences….

Julian Assange has made war more—not less—likely

Buying and selling human beings never went away; it just went underground….

If the chattering classes want to know why the public thinks crime is still an issue, maybe they should look at how “ex”-criminals get to create new victims all over again….

Let’s get over the collective apology thing; it’s not all that helpful….

A review of Roger Scruton’s Beauty, Oxford Press, 2009, 223 pages, $19.95 Reviewed for C2C by Mark Milke

Remember the “firewall” letter from Stephen Harper and Ted Morton? Mark Milke does and argues it's long overdue for an updated Alberta Agenda–this time to include the West…

If, as atheists claim, there is no other reality beyond our physical world, why are they so intent on using moral language? C2C's editorial board chairman delves into the morality chatter…

The quickest way through security for everyone is if airport staff are allowed to practice quick detective work. Profiling is a reality. We might as well admit it, collectively lighten up a bit, and thus get through security quicker.

Medical savings accounts won’t solve all of Medicare’s ills but they make sense in contrast to global health care budgets which are understandably directed to respond to immediate needs as opposed to future needs. But that’s why such accounts are needed. Their non-introduction has been the biggest missed opportunity of the past half-century.

Mark Milke invokes parallels to Renaissance Italy to deconstruct two recent books about the Conservative government – one by Stephen Harper critic Gerry Nicholls and the other by former Tory campaign manager Tom Flanagan.

If the first step toward a cured addiction is to admit the problem, Dr. David Gratzer has given himself no small task: to convince politicians that their reliance on government interference in health care hurts more Americans than it helps.

In August 1973, a group of employees held hostage for six days in a Stockholm, Sweden, bank robbery later defended their captors, and gave us the emotional attachment tagged the Stockholm syndrome. Perhaps its time to apply the label to civil servants who defend the negotiating positions of the side opposite.

Our interview with Dr. Michael Walker, a Senior Fellow of The Fraser Institute and President of the Institute’s Foundation. He served as Executive Director of The Fraser Institute from its establishment in 1974 until 2005.

The Swiss think they’re better than us; they think highly of themselves,” remarked the German gentleman over a beer in Düsseldorf back on a hot July day in 2000. Ale brings out a variety of comments from people so the beer-induced frankness, this after I mentioned Switzerland was the next stop in my vacation, was not unusual.

C2C editor Mark Milke was in Cuba for the resignation of Fidel Castro; here are his observations on 49 years of Fidel.

In the self-hating narrative all too popular and which serves as a substitute for thoughtful historical analysis, the West deserves recent Islamic-based terrorism – or at least – should expect nothing less. We bring such atrocities upon our own heads given our collective history of imposed colonialism, insensitivity to other cultures and willingness to sacrifice all others and our own principles. We do this for black gold to heat our gargantuan homes and fuel our obscene SUVs. This is the bleating apologia from everyone from Michael Moore to the late Edward Said, from New Democrats to the ever-pacifist Bloc Quebecois, from critics at home and abroad.

“The facts of life are conservative” said Margaret Thatcher. Perhaps, but the facts never speak for themselves, which is especially problematic for any Canadian mildly interested in ideas. Too many newspapers have hollowed out their editorial, analysis and comment sections; the number and length of book reviews have been slashed; in both newspapers and on television, investigative reporting is often absent (there is no Canadian television equivalent of John Stossel for example); and the Canadian media is more monolithic than the American media, in part because our smaller population makes diversity in staffing and the sheer number of outlets less possible.