Columns by Randy


November 15th, 2008
Diversity’s Colour – A Hue of Uniformity

As Canada becomes more diverse in certain ways, we are increasingly cornering our minds into a collectivist cage of consensus, where vocabulary and reason are shackled in public discourse. Immigration of people from other cultures ought to increase our knowledge and expand our perspective, but not if we hold our freedoms captive while unlocking the doors of morality with relativism. [...]

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February 6th, 2008
A `rural yahoo’ talks back

It is a rare occasion when an esteemed university political science professor demonstrates both intolerance and ignorance in a single interview.

One recently left his comfortable academic chair and waded into the swamps of political leadership. Along the way his foot found the traps his mouth had set and his mind had baited. Had he armed himself with some knowledge of history and a measure of respect for others, the swamp and the alligators may have been avoided. [...]

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April 27th, 2007
Ontario Mining Law is a Mess

By Randy Hillier and Scott Reid
Most people think of land ownership as being two-dimensional-the sort of thing that you can plot on a map. But property ownership also has a third dimension, relating to what’s underneath the soil. Sometimes it’s the landowner himself who owns potentially valuable minerals that can lie under the surface [...]

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July 16th, 2006
Sowing Socialist Seeds and Expecting a Harvest of Free Enterprise

If the current trend continues – and there is no reason to think otherwise –, farming in the province of Ontario will soon be a relic of the past and a practice played out not in the fields, but in memory only. Years from now when the last family farm is bankrupt and corporate factory farms have finished monopolizing the industry, people will look back and wonder if the destruction was avoidable [...]

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December 3rd, 2003
The Rural Economy, Caught in the Line of Fire

Without question, the road to Canada’s high standard of living and democracy was originally paved by the rural economy. Our forefathers cultivated a lifestyle of individual liberty, independence, and self-reliance through sustainable fishing, farming, and forestry. [...]

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