Canadians are inveterate travellers, but they don’t go abroad merely to appreciate the Louvre’s great art, find their true purpose through a swami in India, build houses for the poor in Nicaragua or get sloshed poolside in Cabo. For all-too-many, it’s about maintaining their ability to walk or even saving their life. C2C Journal’s George Koch looks into “medical tourism”, evaluating the statistics and asking how we might keep more health care dollars at home.

Smear, denounce, attack, delegitimize and wreck their career. The twisted toolbox of today’s left – including here in Canada – should be growing familiar to conservatives, for victims in virtually all walks of life topple almost daily. One of the latest is sociologist Ricardo Duchesne, long of the University of New Brunswick but, as of last week, no longer. David Solway illuminates the sordid saga of a solid researcher and author becoming the left’s racist du jour.

Prime Minister Trudeau is pushing for increased immigration next year despite a poll finding only 17% of Canadians favour such a step. Bradly Betters argues that in Canada as in other Western nations, rational thinking about immigration has been clouded by a universalist hyper-moralism that conflates a nation’s interests with racism.

The future belongs to Canada. And it seems it always will, at least going by the many failed predictions of Canada’s imminent emergence as a praised and respected world-class nation. That’s because it’s not really about Canada in the global community, it’s all about us and our insecurities, writes Benjamin L. Woodfinden. That’s also why Woodfinden expects prodigious commentator, author and former news media magnate Conrad Black’s prescription to transform Canada into a “laboratory” – though a “sensible” one – for great new policies, or at least policies Black thinks are new and great, to go the way of similarly grandiose historical attempts.

Facts may be stubborn things. But they don’t stand a chance in court given the Canadian legal system’s current obsession with Indigenous spirituality and myth. Decisive historical evidence and centuries of legal doctrine were recently rejected by an Ontario judge evidently bewitched by Indigenous creationism and a federal government apparently intent on surrender. Drawing on their knowledge of the Indigenous file, Robert MacBain and Peter Shawn Taylor reveal the deep flaws of Restoule v. Canada, and the enormous financial and political damage it could do.

A recent study says the proportion of women, visible minorities, and disabled people in the RCMP remains static. Josh Dehaas argues than rather than chase after such illusory goals as “gender parity” or achieving some artificial ratio through quota hiring, the RCMP should continue to hire whoever’s best.

Another ostensible barrier tumbled when Chrystia Freeland was sworn in as Canada’s first female finance minister. Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell noted, “It’s one of those portfolios that for some reason or other people don’t see women in.” Tasha Kheiriddin argues that advancing female representation shouldn’t be about virtue-signalling but ensuring we get the best and brightest of both sexes.

With every serious but hardly unprecedented weather event getting blamed on human-driven climate change, including in histrionic government press releases, some suspect the federal Liberals are laying the groundwork for a viciously moralistic election campaign. Gwyn Morgan is one, but he still sees a practical way out of the mess for Canadians and, perhaps, for the federal opposition as well.

Raising Canada’s carbon emissions could be a good thing – if it drove far bigger cuts to emissions elsewhere in the world. Rather than fixating on forcing domestic emissions reductions and thereby beggaring Canadian industries, Michael Binnion wants Canadian climate change policy to look at the big picture. Doing so, he explains, could not only generate jobs and wealth at home but maximize the worldwide environmental benefits.

Earth Day triggered the usual round of apocalyptic warnings and crazed publicity stunts, this time accompanied by the sad sight of schoolchildren warning adults that the world is doomed and today’s kids are destined for an early death. The facts, however, speak powerfully in the opposite direction, writes Josh Dehaas. He too endured eco-brainwashing as a schoolkid but eventually grew out of it, living proof the affliction is survivable.