Communists

The transformation of the medieval world into the modern world came about with the idea that man could and should transform his lot in life. The liberal individualism of the Enlightenment however was soon countered by reactionary movements, feudal and socio-feudal, seeking to put the genie of individual autonomy back in the box through collectivist movements.

Among the most prominent of these was what would eventually be called socialism. While early socialist movements had been a radical Christian heresy emphasizing communal living, these experiments invariably failed on a local level, leaving behind a trail of wrecked lives.

Ahn Nguyen fled Vietnam with her parents when the communists took over in 1975. They lost their home and land but considered themselves fortunate to be able to start over again in Canada.

She then met her husband, Tien, and 35 years ago the family began fishing for elvers — tiny translucent baby eels netted in Maritime rivers and shipped to Asia where they are grown for food.

Who wants you to believe taxes have risen 2000 per cent? Would-be Prime Minister Pierre Poilievre for a start

If we end up with Pierre Poilievre as prime minister, it will be partly because of all the groundwork done by right-wing think tanks in distorting the public debate over taxes.

Most notably, the Fraser Institute, generously funded by wealthy interests, has been using its ample resources for decades to turn Canadians into tax-haters, to disconnect taxes in the public’s mind from all the benefits, services, programs and infrastructure that taxes provide.

Key to promoting this anti-tax agenda has been grossly exaggerating the actual tax burden on Canadians.

Marxist activists and historians, along with their left-wing allies often make the claim that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics under Joseph Stalin should somehow receive our thanks and praise for the defeat of Nazism. They often back this up with the statistical figure that many more Soviet soldiers died defeating Nazi Germany than American soldiers or the Western Allies.

While this statistic is true, it does not mean that the USSR should be thanked for defeating Nazi Germany, or that without the USSR, Nazi Germany would not have been defeated. This myth will be debunked thoroughly in this article.

Alberta’s New Democratic Party has found a new leader in former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi.

A little more than 62,000 members selected Nenshi as the new leader Saturday afternoon, ending a months-long leadership race between Edmonton MLAs Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse and Sarah Hoffman, and Calgary MLA Kathleen Ganley.

What would a city be like if the teachers’ unions didn’t just run the educational system, but the entire place top to bottom? To find out just pay a visit to the streets of Chicago. If you dare.

When Mayor Brandon Johnson ran for office, the Chicago Teachers Union had made its pitch for its former “legislative coordinator” after putting millions into his campaign by promising that “if a teacher became mayor, we could build the city we all deserve.”

Nicola Sturgeon’s husband has been charged in connection with embezzlement of funds from the Scottish National Party.

Peter Murrell, the party’s former chief executive, was taken into custody at 9.13am on Thursday morning by detectives investigating the funding and finances of the party.

Police Scotland said he was charged more than nine hours later, at 6.35pm, after further questioning. He was released from police custody, and a report will be sent to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service in due course.

Proper socialists.

Let me just say up front that millionaire communists are my favorite kind of communists. I enjoy the way they slum it with their blue-collar comrades and then give lengthy interviews to leftist magazines bragging about spending their inherited wealth for the cause and basically bigging themselves up as the most radical of radicals.