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‘Useful idiots’ who let China off the hook: Why is there such an apparent lack of concern over their determination to keep burning coal

By Other News Sources on November 15, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

The Chinese Communist Party uses Western environmentalists to further its goal of world domination. British investigative journalist, David Rose, looks at who and how.

During COVID, the charter has been useless

By Other News Sources on November 3, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

In Canada, some are apt to believe that vaccine mandates surely must contravene the charter. But has a specific charter right been breached? Or is it just the charter’s vibe?

China won’t attack Taiwan

By Other News Sources on November 2, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

In “The Art of War,” the great strategist Sun Tzu described victory as not fighting at all and permitting the enemy to defeat themselves. To that end, Taiwan is well aware of China’s […]

Chinese civil rights activists accused of planning “colour revolution” to subvert state

By Probe International on October 14, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

English-language Chinese news outlet, China Change, takes an in-depth look at the (lack of) evidence against civil rights activists Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi, and how concepts like a “citizen’s movement” – […]

Huawei executive Meng was a loser in Trudeau’s election gamble

By Patricia Adams on September 27, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Why would Trudeau’s electoral failure lead Meng, and the CCP, to throw in the towel and agree to the U.S. Justice Department’s deferred prosecution agreement, which lists in voluminous detail her serial […]

Nuclear arms are now musts for Taiwan and Japan

By Patricia Adams on September 21, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

The best insurance policy against Beijing’s aggression is a nuclear-armed military.

Diaries kept by CCP official pits stepdaughter against stepmother and Chinese regime

By Probe International on September 21, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

A custody battle over an unofficial history of China is the subject of a legal fight pitting the widow of retired Communist Party official, Li Rui, against her stepdaughter and Stanford University.

The more Israel doubled down on COVID, the worse things got

By Patricia Adams on September 20, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Israel was everyone’s model of how to tackle COVID. How did Israel become a cautionary tale?

The third Michael

By Patricia Adams on September 7, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

As egregious as Beijing’s treatment of Canada’s “two Michaels” has been, its treatment of a third, lesser-known Canadian is more outrageous, and even more revealing of the sham that passes for China’s […]

Israel’s vaccine treadmill

By Patricia Adams on August 31, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Israel’s early determination to fully vaccinate its population—when two shots were defined as fully vaccinated—led to it being heralded as a huge success story. But suddenly, the coronavirus cases are back, and […]

Free markets, not governments

By Other News Sources on August 30, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Free markets are complex and they work (like ecosystems). Governments do not create wealth, they confiscate wealth and with monopolies they have less motivation to lower costs or innovate.

China’s captive in Vancouver

By Patricia Adams on August 30, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

In truth, all that is keeping Meng Wanzhou from returning to China is rule by the Chinese Communist Party. Meng is a de facto captive of her own country more than of […]

The most dammed country in the world

By Probe International on August 26, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Legendary Chinese journalist-turned-environmental activist, Dai Qing, becomes a pocket warrior in the new Penguin Classics series, Green Ideas.

Why is China’s police department still running Canada’s visa office in Beijing?

By Patricia Adams on August 23, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

Because Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called an election, we may never know. The Canadian government says there is no cause for alarm. An investigation by Probe International’s Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon […]

The courage to carry on

By Other News Sources on August 22, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Self-responsibility and the achievement of freedom.

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