Should Omar Khadr—or his mother—be tried for treason? In a past issue, C2C Journal commissioned several authors to look at treason in Canada and how the concept declined. See https://c2cjournal.ca/past-issues/ and scroll down to Volume 4 Issue 1 – Whatever Happened to Treason?
Generation Z should know better than anyone the risk that technology poses to personal privacy. They are after all the first generation to grow up entirely in the digital age. Jessica Nwaefidoh knows from personal experience how vulnerable your most intimate information can be. With companies anxious to profit from everyone’s personal data, politicians happy to play along for their own selfish reasons and most people willing to sacrifice their own privacy for convenience, amusement or just to get by, Nwaefidoh argues that it’s time to fight back. The right to be left alone, she finds, requires constant vigilance – and she offers some practical tactics to reclaim that right.
Older generations often roll their eyes when young people seek to blame them for their woes. But if Canada’s Gen Zers feel betrayed by the Boomers, they are right to do so, argues Gwyn Morgan. Years of irresponsible fiscal and regulatory policies have hamstrung the Canadian economy and left younger generations facing a bleak future of stagnant wages, rising taxes and shrinking opportunities. A former business leader who created more than his share of jobs and prosperity during his long corporate career, Morgan casts a worried eye over the next generation – and offers sympathy for the situation they’re inheriting.
Ireland’s Ryanair will fly you from London to Geneva for $49. Flying from Calgary to Vancouver – a shorter trip – likely will set you back four times as much. Canadians suffer some of the highest-priced, least-convenient and most unpleasant airline service in the world, and mainly for one reason: forestalled competition. In fact, creating barriers to prevent any meaningful competition has been the main goal of Canadian airline policy since the formation of Trans-Canada Air Lines in 1937. Simon Michell explains how this sorry situation came to be and reveals how opening up our skies – as so many other countries have already done – would make things much better for us all.
Celebrating the fact of one’s country’s existence, its survival through the adversities of history and its positive or uplifting attributes is a fact of life the world over, even in tyrannies and oligarchies. Nearly everyone can find something to love about the place they call home. Yet this is apparently not the case for many inhabitants of present-day Canada, who claim that what was once the self-described “greatest country in the world” has suddenly become a systemically racist hell-hole. Despite such pressure from the woke mob and their elite enablers, however, the editors of C2C Journal find much that is not merely defensible about Canada, but praiseworthy and downright glorious.
Aboriginal grievance and entitlement stories made a lot of news in Canada in June. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau renamed National Aboriginal Day as National Indigenous Peoples Day. He also renamed his office to erase its historic link to Hector Langevin, an architect of the residential schools system. And he gave the old American embassy in Ottawa to native groups. Still aboriginal activists weren’t satisfied. So they badgered an apology out of Governor General David Johnston for calling First Nations peoples immigrants. Which left the author of this story wondering, where on or off earth do these insatiably aggrieved activists come from?
In 1972 Lou Reed offended conservatives with his hit Walk on the Wild Side, an admiring ode to his transgendered friend Holly, who left Miami as a he and became a she on the way to New York. In 2017 the song has offended progressives as a transphobic example of cultural appropriation. In this article by C2C Staff, the Journal explains what a long, strange trip it’s been from conservative censorship to progressive censorship.
