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Canada’s “Climate Crisis” is Entirely Political

Maurice Strong died of old age before seeing his predictions of climate apocalypse come true. But don’t worry: there are plenty of putative replacements for the late organizer of the original “Earth Summit”. They’re younger, more credulous, far shriller and even less scientifically literate. If the planet won’t heat up and destroy industrial civilization as predicted, they’re here to help make sure that the latter, at least, occurs one way or another. Gwyn Morgan peruses selected lowlights from the current “climate crisis” spectacle and laments our Liberal government’s credulous genuflection before the prophets of doom when Canada’s industry actually has the means to help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

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Future of Conservatism Special Series: The Enduring Appeal of Red Toryism

C2C Journal’s name is a deliberate double-play on our central aspirations – to be read from coast to coast and to nurture important conversations between Canada’s conservatives. While we may not always get along perfectly, having just lost an entirely winnable federal election in which the Conservative Party topped the popular vote, now is a critical time to have a wide-ranging and civil debate about the future of conservatism in our beloved country. Ben Woodfinden kicks off C2C’s new special series on this important topic with a thoughtful essay about a Canadian political tradition that enjoyed plenty of success in our past, and deserves to be revived today.

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Oh! What a Lovely Climate War

Matthew Lau

To arms! The narrative of radical environmentalism is changing dramatically, with activists now fixated on a Climate War as their preferred outcome. Mass mobilization, war-time rationing, a command-and-control economy. All are now invoked as essential to dealing with our ‘climate emergency.’ And the inevitable foe in this conflict is capitalism. As economic specialist Matthew Lau points out, however, what the environmental war party overlooks is the central role played by free markets in driving change, resolving conflict and improving the human condition.

Canadian Journalism has an Equality Problem and it’s Not Racism

Canadian Journalism has an “Equality” Problem, and it’s Not Racism

Josh Dehaas

Studies that crumble under the barest scrutiny. Professors less interested in pursuing the truth than pushing an agenda – and whose tortured prose would have flunked any first-year writing class a generation or two back. Journalists who quit their jobs to focus on race-based political activism. But don’t worry, all is good over there. It’s the rest of us who are at fault, for we’re all racists! Josh Dehaas does the grim work of peeling back the veneer of professionalism overlying the cesspool of ideology sloshing around today’s journalism scene in Canada’s largest city.

March Or Die, Canadian-Style the French Foreign Legion 7

March or Die, Canadian-Style

Peter Shawn Taylor

Few Canadians have any connection to our depleted military, fewer still enlist, and the number who consider joining a special branch of a foreign country’s forces that began as a way to soak up society’s dregs must be vanishingly small. Yet that was the path chosen by Joel Struthers, and his five years spent in the French Foreign Legion don’t seem to have done him any lasting harm. Peter Shawn Taylor shows that the historical aura of the kepi-clad brawlers still exerts a romantic tug on certain modern-day hearts in this fond portrayal of one Canadian’s life in the Legion and his remarkable work since getting out intact.

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The Inter-Generational Insights of “ok boomer”

The view that social media are a wasteland of trivia and irrationality that’s making everyone dumber has become so common as to form an example of the very genre it condemns. In truth, decidedly non-trivial things are being communicated, just not in ways that older generations – or not-yet-clued-in members of current ones – quite understand. The current meme-war over the political and economic legacy of the Baby Boomers, for example, may well define how this generation is remembered as it fades into dotage and beyond. Millennial Aaron Nava shoulders the almost superhuman burden of working with a boomer editor to illustrate one skirmish in the eternal inter-generational tug-of-war.

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Civic Engagement Meets the Bureaucracy

Ken Boessenkool

A B.C. man is under investigation for violations of the Wildlife Act after he took an emaciated bear cub that had appeared at his house to a local wildlife centre. A conservation officer intoned, “We can’t have the general public just picking up orphan bear cubs.” Notably, the homeowner had asked the government for help but had been rebuffed. Ken Boessenkol, Sean Speer, and James Wielgos argue that the growth of government leads to a disastrous degeneration of civil society.

Punching Below Our Weight

Mathew Preston

Speaking of war – the real kind, not the fake “climate war” of fevered Liberal imaginations – ever wonder why countries ranging from China to Saudi Arabia can publicly berate Canada with seeming impunity? Well, who respects a country so unserious about defending itself, especially in a world that often seems just one missile strike away from conflagration? As Ottawa prepares to take possession of some worn-out Australian F-18 fighters that probably wouldn’t sell even on Kijiji, Mathew Preston undertakes a detailed comparison of Aussie and Canuck military capabilities and defence policy.

Books on the Road

Patrick Keeney

Yangon (the former Rangoon, capital of the former Burma) is among the great Asian cities with unanticipated pleasures for the traveller. The buildings of its downtown core (which the Japanese avoided bombing in WWII) are living examples of the building styles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. For Patrick Keeney, the greatest attraction was the bookstalls of Pansodan Street.

Civic Engagement Meets the Bureaucracy

Ken Boessenkool

A B.C. man is under investigation for violations of the Wildlife Act after he took an emaciated bear cub that had appeared at his house to a local wildlife centre. A conservation officer intoned, “We can’t have the general public just picking up orphan bear cubs.” Notably, the homeowner had asked the government for help but had been rebuffed. Ken Boessenkol, Sean Speer, and James Wielgos argue that the growth of government leads to a disastrous degeneration of civil society.

Punching Below Our Weight

Mathew Preston

Speaking of war – the real kind, not the fake “climate war” of fevered Liberal imaginations – ever wonder why countries ranging from China to Saudi Arabia can publicly berate Canada with seeming impunity? Well, who respects a country so unserious about defending itself, especially in a world that often seems just one missile strike away from conflagration? As Ottawa prepares to take possession of some worn-out Australian F-18 fighters that probably wouldn’t sell even on Kijiji, Mathew Preston undertakes a detailed comparison of Aussie and Canuck military capabilities and defence policy.

Books on the Road

Patrick Keeney

Yangon (the former Rangoon, capital of the former Burma) is among the great Asian cities with unanticipated pleasures for the traveller. The buildings of its downtown core (which the Japanese avoided bombing in WWII) are living examples of the building styles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. For Patrick Keeney, the greatest attraction was the bookstalls of Pansodan Street.

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