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​You probably got a small postcard in the mail this week from the Government of Canada with the headline “Have your say about our democracy”. It announces an online survey which can found at mydemocracy.ca Will this survey really give you a say?

​To put it mildly, it is disappointing to see the three largest Canadian federal parties are all committed to be progressive in their policies. But what do they mean by progressive?

Jordan Peterson is a professor at the University of Toronto. He has an odd connection to frogs. He jokes that some have even said that he sounds a little like Kermit the Frog. He owns a frog mask carved in the west-coast First Nations’ style.

When you’re trying to sell a product, you usually ensure the benefits are visible for the first while so people will anticipate and celebrate their purchase of your product, motivating others to make the purchase also…then reality sets in as manufacturing defects begin to become evident.

Justin Trudeau and his Liberal cabinet continue to ram and jam through their social agenda, leaving broken fragments of Canada’s cultural heritage and democratic traditions in its wake. C-16 is Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould’s sledgehammer approach to ending freedom of religion as we’ve known it and implementing the Liberal gender agenda in churches, schools, and other institutions.

Seventy years ago, Holland was liberated from the occupying forces of Germany. What a great event that was! Being free again—that was almost more than we could believe.

​At the intersection of freedom of religion and freedom of education there is the question of homeschooling. Should parents or government-approved educational professionals have primary authority and responsibility for the education of the next generation?

On the “morning after” Voting Day in Medicine Hat, we survey the scene and reflect on the current state of our democratic institutions and the fragility of our social fabric.

​If a pregnant woman is murdered and her unborn child dies during the commission of the crime, should the murderer be charged with one count of murder, or two?

In high school, I took World Politics in grade 10. I remember being instructed to take a newspaper article and report on the ‘slant’ of it. It was October 1970 and I chose “A Storm In A Teacup”.

Nobody likes paying taxes but most of us are willing to pay our fair share for the good of the country. Justin Trudeau’s recent threat to impose a national carbon tax if the provinces refuse to apply their own will do no good for our country, nor yet for the climate. It’s a money-grabbing power-trip, plain and simple.

“In everything give thanks,” we are told. We do. We rejoice in the privileges granted to us by our wonderful Creator. As we approach Thanksgiving Day, it is good to remind ourselves of the many ways...