Author: Steve Kates

  • Any Canadians who have ever wondered whether they would have sided with Mussolini in the 1930s has had that issue settled today and for all time

    Canada is a fascist state, and Canadians prefer it that way. BREAKING: Justin Trudeau states the Canadian federal government has invoked the Emergencies Act pic.twitter.com/5cyPWymGkt — Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) February 14, 2022

  • Carrying the load for the whole of Western Civilisation

      The Battle of Quebec, Queenston Heights, Lundy’s Lane, Vimy Ridge, Deippe, Juno, Moscow 1972, not to forget Laura Secord. And now the Battle of Parliament Hill, Ottawa. You don’t want to mess with Canadians, when they’re really angry. And they are really angry. And bless them, they are carrying the load for the whole of Western Civilisation. …

  • Why is everyone so frightened?

    By far the deepest insights into the pandemic, and the resistance by the truckers, is provided by David Solway, with this is his best effort yet. There is an agenda in play, and whether you believe it or not, you should pay attention because once we have gone beyond the point of no return, there…

  • “Put the arguments aside…”

    I appreciate that The Oz puts a range of views on its editorial page so that there is usually something for everyone, but I have to say that the superficiality and phenomenal ignorance of Ms Katrina Grace Kelly does try the nerves. It was her first four words that captured just how dull what she…

  • Our media is as pro-lockdown, pro-mandate as Justin Trudeau

    So Southern Ontario with its flat featureless terrain. But all these years later, it is still as familiar as home. Meanwhile, there has still been no mention of any of this in the local press, so far as I can see. Our own media is as pro-lockdown, pro-mandate as Justin Trudeau. And then there is…

  • Free speech is your only protection from a tyrannical government

    Let me come back to my articles on conservatism that was published in Quadrant at the end of last year. Here’s the conclusion at the end of the second article, Conservative Thought in the Time of Covid (Part II): These are the elements of conservatism as it needs to be understood if we are to defend…

  • Why are we taking medical advice from Daniel Andrews and Anthony Fauci?

    From a comments thread at Instapundit. Of course you wouldn’t want to doubt the vaccines. Correlation is NOT causation, but it is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for causation. If the vaccines work, then high vaccination rates MUST be correlated w/ lower death rates ABSENT a confounding variable. Of course, the mere fact that confounding…

  • The True North Strong and Free

    Seldom think of the old Dominion as the centre of international revolutionary action, but there you are. This is amazing, from Gone, Baby, Gone?, which is about the Canadian Prime Minister running away in the face of the truckers’ convention on the streets of Ottawa. This morning, I tested positive for COVID-19. I’m feeling fine –…

  • “A tiny minority with unacceptable views”

    There is some resistance growing to the insanities associated with Covid across the world, with the Canadian truck convoys leading the pack. It’s not even that they are anti-vaxxine as such, just anti being forced to take the vaxxines and then each of the mandated “boosters” to participate in normal life, like going to the…

  • The price mechanism is the single most important element of the market economy

    Broken supply-chains are the story of the moment but what I find truly remarkable is that virtually no one any longer understands that it is the price system, and the price system alone that allows the supply-chain to operate. I have discussed this before. This is virtually no longer part of the economics curriculum but…