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I was talking to William Wallis on his show about the state of things in L.A. and I quoted some of my old figures about the politically inflated cost of housing. The first apartments cost an average of $479,000 a unit. Some went as high as $650,000 a unit. But that wasn’t good enough. Two years later,…

Bringing the Emergencies Act into play meant that Canada was supposedly facing an unprecedented crisis caused by the Freedom Convoy that the state had to turn to the use of what were wartime powers to cope with the threat. Now, Trudeau has announced that, “Today, after careful consideration, we’re ready to confirm that the situation is no…

What’s going on in Canada is ugly. But it’s also a reminder of the fundamental difference between our Constitution and other western documents which do not provide absolute rights. In an op-ed for the CBC titled, “The Ottawa truck convoy has revealed the ugly side of freedom”, Beverley McLachlin, a former justice of the Supreme Court of…