Thanks to Jack Mintz of the University of Calgary School of Public Policy I have been invited to be on a panel at a major national conference on the theme…
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On March 11 I was the keynote speaker at the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada’s conference on family policy. I spoke about what we know today about the relationship…
Here is a great op-ed, by Calvin Helin and Dave Snow, that appeared in the Globe and Mail on March 16 about the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s inaugural paper, Free To Learn….
Monday morning March 15th at 7.30, listen to an interview with Brian on CBC Radio’s Ottawa morning programme where he will announce the opening of his new think tank, the…
Readers of Fearful Symmetry, published in September, 2009,  will recall its claim that “The next 50 years will be an age of labour force inclusiveness such as the social engineers…
Notable Islamic scholar Tahir ul-Qadri is now at the spear tip of a movement among Muslim intellectuals to rescue their religion from association with the murderous ideology and terrorist practice…
I will be signing copies of Fearful Symmetry at the Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa on March 12, between 10:30 and 11:00.
My nomination for Best Olympic commentary: the sign held up by US and Canadian troops watching the gold medal hockey game by satellite in Afghanistan: “The United States and Canada…
On 24 February, I will be the guest speaker at the McInnes Cooper Lunchtime Speakers Series where I’ll be talking about Fearful Symmetry. McInnes Cooper (one of Atlantic Canada’s largest…
In all the blather surrounding Red Ed Clark’s call for higher taxes, and the federal Tories response, most of the attention has been focused on either the issue of whether…