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Colin Alexander

Colin Alexander was publisher of the Yellowknife [em]News of the North[/em]. His forthcoming book, to be published soon by Frontier Centre for Public Policy, is [em]Justice on Trial: Truckers Freedom Convoy and other problematic cases[/em].

Most Recent Articles by Colin Alexander:

Why does Canada’s open society embrace tribalism?

Even many ostensible conservatives buy into the Indigenous iconography of a pre-industrial Garden of Eden—and so-called reconciliation under the UN’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). It’s enough that misplaced romanticism condones the transfer of untold billions of dollars without accounting for where it goes.


- Sunday, March 10, 2024

How can Canadians trust biased judges on the appeal courts?

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the government will appeal the decision delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Richard Mosley on January 23. He ruled that Ottawa’s use of the Emergencies Act early in 2022 to end the Truckers’ Freedom Convoy’s protest on Parliament Hill was not justified.

- Tuesday, January 30, 2024

A recent decision forbids timely promotion of a book

Government in Canada is broken: education, health care, the military, Indigenous affairs, immigration and housing, and Parliament itself. The Senate’s where stooges retire on rocking-chair money. Against this background, a necessity for a free and democratic society should be a trustworthy justice system. But it too is broken. It’s dominated by the vested interests of crony capitalism and woke inanity. That’s the thrust of my recently published book Justice on Trial: Jordan Peterson’s case and others show we need to fix the broken system.

- Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Why does the case drag on for the tenured professor fired by Calgary’s Mount Royal University?

When will churchman-arbitrator David P. Jones get around to delivering a decision in the dispute between fired university professor Frances Widdowson and Calgary’s Mount Royal University (MRU)? Does Mr. Jones have an interest in burying a case impinging on his own interests and affiliations?

There was widespread publicity when MRU fired the tenured Professor Widdowson in 2020. Her offence? She criticized the Black Lives Matter movement whose rioters wrecked billions of dollars worth of property in the US and destroyed many black businesses. She also said that Indigenous Residential Schools (IRS) benefited many attendees.

- Sunday, August 13, 2023

The Vulgarian Lampoon

Mary Simon met a flyman
When setting off by air,
Says Simon to the flyman,
I need the finest fare.

She says then to the airman
I travel royal class
So treat me like a chairman
With bucketsful of brass.

- Sunday, July 23, 2023

Canada’s Apartheid Manifesto

Canadian Apartheid

Every reasonable and decent Canadian knows there’s been discrimination against Indians and Inuit on the basis of ethnicity. So it’s now generally accepted that remediation is necessary to counter the sins of the past. That’s what the Liberal government’s Action Plan, released on June 20, purports to do. It follows on from the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, which received royal assent on June 21, 2021. In reality, under the guise of reconciliation, it’s a manifesto for replicating apartheid as it was in South Africa, and it sets out a policy for the perpetual misery and marginalization of a burgeoning underclass.

- Sunday, July 9, 2023

The Emergencies Act Report Threatens Life and Liberty

The most alarming aspect of Justice Paul Rouleau’s finding that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act was justified is that the Laurentian elite owns the justice system. In effect, Justice Rouleau parroted the stance taken by Chief Justice Richard Wagner, as manifested by his interview with Le Devoir (April 9, 2022). The Chief Justice said, “Forced blows against the state, justice and democratic institutions like the one delivered by protesters to the doors of the Prime Minister's office and the Privy Council, Parliament, the Supreme Court of Canada and the parliamentary press gallery must be denounced with force, and by all the powers of the state.” (My translation)

- Thursday, March 2, 2023

All’s not well in Heliopolis (Sunny Ways City) Liberal stooge says the Emergencies Act was justified

As expected, Justice Paul Rouleau has declared that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was justified in invoking the Emergencies Act. “I have concluded,” the judge says, “that the very high threshold required for the invocation of the Act was met.”

So how credible is that finding? My first problem, and it’s serious, is that the appointment process for Justice Rouleau was objectionable. For any real emergency, assuming you agree there ever was one, there should have been bipartisan agreement on who was to be the commissioner. Problems with the appointment arise from the fact that he’s a longstanding and paid-up member of the Liberal nomenklatura. He’d worked as a Liberal staffer and had donated to the Liberal Party. His career began with the Liberal lapdog law firm of Heenan Blaikie, the one that was to collapse in disgrace as a result of bribery scandals and maladministration. His taking the job as commissioner is then the first exercise in outstandingly bad judgment we’ve come to expect in Ottawa. It violates the most fundamental principle that justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.

- Sunday, February 19, 2023

Where does Canada’s Governor General hide? What duties come with the job?

It would be absurd to expect Governor General Mary Simon to punch a time clock to justify her position and her salary of 340 grand, raised by 40K during Covid. And a pension of 150 grand. But since her office costs taxpayers $34 million annually, and with it costing a hundred grand for meals on a five-day trip, let’s look at what’s going on.

It’s reasonable to consider whether Mary Simon is upholding the implied duties of trust and performance that come with the job and the paycheck. So what do they consist of? The Governor General should focus on the motto for the position. It translates as wanting a better country. Granted the job description is an open exercise book, that doesn’t mean the pages can remain blank.

- Monday, February 13, 2023

The Truckers’ Convoy Vendetta Lives On Two standards of police misconduct in Ottawa

The Truckers’ Convoy Vendetta Lives On Two standards of police misconduct in OttawaThere are two opposing theories of liberty. The libertarian one in a presumptively free and democratic society says you can do anything that’s not forbidden by law. The opposite position is that you can’t do anything unless it’s specifically authorized by government. That’s the position in countries like Vladimir Putin’s Russia that new Canadians who fled communism know full well. To his eternal credit, Ontario’s Superior Court Justice Hugh McLean stated the libertarian position for freedom of expression and the right to protest. On Monday February 7, 2022 he imposed an injunction on the truckers engaged in the Freedom Convoy. Ruling from the bench to forbid honking their horns, he said that “provided the terms of this Order are complied with, the defendants and other persons remain at liberty to engage in a peaceful, lawful and safe protest.”
- Saturday, October 15, 2022

Pope Francis sells his own good people down the river

The Papal Visit to Canada, Pope Francis sells his own good people down the riverPope Francis’s pilgrimage to Canada for so-called healing and reconciliation starts on July 24. Along with a gullible public, he’s swallowed the calumny that residential schools for Indians and Inuit were all hell-holes of iniquity that perpetrated cultural genocide. That’s understandable given his background in Marxist and anti-capitalist liberation-theology in South America. The facts are more complex.
- Thursday, July 14, 2022

Truckers’ Protest: The Post Mortem

Truckers’ Protest: The Post MortemThese conclusions appear to follow from the Canadian truckers’ protest in Ottawa:
  1. There was some justification for the truckers’ demand for the reduction or elimination of Covid mandates. Other free and democratic countries have done that. So how is it fair that truckers, once regarded as essential workers, were targeted with new restrictions when Covid’s winding down?
  2. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could have defused the situation by meeting with the leaders instead of provoking them.
  3. Ottawa’s Mayor Jim Watson and Police Chief Peter Sloly were incompetent in allowing hundreds of trucks to arrive downtown. The military historian Basil Liddell Hart wrote of the importance of learning from history so as to avoid making the same mistakes over and over. Why keep repeating failures of preparedness ahead of potentially troublesome demonstrations known well in advance to be on their way—as the Americans failed ahead of the January 6, 2021 riot in Washington?
  4. The invocation of the Emergencies Act is unconscionable overreach as a remedy for a fiasco caused by ineptitude at all levels of government.
- Monday, February 21, 2022

Canada’s Officious Overreach

TRUDEAU EMERGENCY ACTYou don’t have to support protesting truckers to answer these questions as I do. Where will it stop? Is Canada still a free and democratic society? How does Canada compare with other free and democratic societies that have not found emergency powers to be necessary? My answer is that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act to clamp down on protesting truckers replicates what Hitler did for Germany in 1933. After the fire in the Reichstag (the German parliament building), Hitler secured the Enabling Act that allowed him to bypass the Weimar Constitution, which comprised laws, and checks and balances guaranteeing rights and freedoms similar to those in Canada’s Charter.
- Saturday, February 19, 2022

Where do the West’s interests really lie?

Where do the West’s interests really lie?Of all the challenges the West faces in 2022, does war over Ukraine need to be one of them? Evidently missing from consideration is the fact that the majority of the population in eastern Ukraine and, overwhelmingly, in Crimea is Russian. And they speak Russian, a language as different from Ukrainian as Catalan is from Spanish. Ukraine wants to retain its industrial base in the eastern provinces. But is retention necessary?
- Sunday, January 2, 2022

Truth and Reconciliation National Day: Marx-inspired tribalism is a death sentence for Indigenous youth

Truth and Reconciliation National Day
: Marx-inspired tribalism is a death sentence for Indigenous youthAs we head into National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) on September 30, there’s an honourable sense of wanting to do right by Indigenous peoples. My problem is that TRC has led Canadians to believe the falsehood that the legacy of residential schools is responsible for Indigenous dysfunctionality today. The 1967 Hawthorn Report said that at peak enrolment they comprised just 6 percent of all Indigenous students, with a quarter of those in hostels attending provincial and territorial schools. For all the real horrors, there were also success stories, including many of today’s elite. As just one example, Noah Carpenter was born on the trapline, he graduated from residential school in Inuvik in 1963 and he went on to become a world-renowned thoracic surgeon.
- Monday, September 27, 2021

Huawei is an International Threat

Huawei, Meng WanzhouBoth Canada and the US botched the extradition case against Meng Wanzhou, daughter of the founder of Huawei that’s still pending. You don’t have to like anything about China to know that the case for extraditing Meng to the US compounds tensions for no useful purpose. Here’s a summary of what happened. On December 1, 2018 Canada Border Services officers detained Meng on arrival by air in Vancouver, where she owns sumptuous homes. The RCMP then formally arrested her on a provisional US extradition request. The US alleged that she was involved with multiple financial institutions in breach of their sanctions against Iran.
- Tuesday, June 2, 2020

The Myth of Canada’s Indigenous Garden of Eden

The Myth of Canada’s Indigenous Garden of EdenMany Canadians harbour foundational misconceptions about marginalized Indigenous communities and ignore the grim future for next generations. For multigenerational welfare families in remote settlements and urban slums, the gap has never been wider between the marginalized Indigenous underclass and the government’s much-vaunted middle class. Except for a privileged minority, by standard measures of societal dysfunctionality, the gap the government undertook to close widens exponentially.
- Friday, May 22, 2020

Kangaroo Court Convicts
Canada’s Fact-finder Senator

Senator BeyakCanada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government is paying off complicit print media and planning to license internet media. Free speech is now under attack as it was in the United States under FDR and under fascist and communist regimes since then. As an example, last May Senators suspended their colleague Lynn Beyak, a Conservative. At the time of writing, they’re trying to go around again. The grounds for the first suspension?
- Friday, February 7, 2020

Canada’s horrendous justice system needs an outside inquiry to recommend reform

Canada’s horrendous justice system needs an outside inquiry to recommend reformAccountability is a buzzword of our time—except for Canada’s lawyers and judges. But things can change. Making it happen requires concerted pressure on politicians at all levels. Only they have the power to impose the collective will of citizens against collective resistance in the justice system. Judges in the Supreme Court of Canada said this about good-faith dealing, in Bhasin v. Hrynew: “Commercial parties reasonably expect a basic level of honesty and good faith in contractual dealings. … A basic level of honest conduct is necessary to the proper functioning of commerce.” But lawyers’ and judges’ own operations echo too often the famous saying by Lord Acton that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Even senior judges protect rogue colleagues when they can—as in any other trade union.
- Thursday, March 7, 2019

Canada’s SNC Lavalin corruption scandal—Should Prime Minister Justin Trudeau go to jail?

Canada’s SNC Lavalin corruption scandal—Should Prime Minister Justin Trudeau go to jail?Canada’s SNC Lavalin bribery scandal strikes at the heart of the legitimacy of capitalism operating presumptively under the rule of law. It also strikes at the foundations of credible accountability—read honesty and lawful conduct—in the office of Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. It’s been common knowledge for years that SNC Lavalin engaged in corrupt practices, both at home and abroad. The immediate focus is the company’s payment of $48 million in bribes to secure contracts in Libya. It’s not just Canada that has laws against paying bribes to foreigners.
- Monday, February 18, 2019

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