Making Sense with Nicholls

Here is my first ever blog poll. Is Gerry Nicholls Among the Top Five Political Minds in the Country? Yes No Don't Know No but he does h...

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Tonight the Liberal Party of Canada will pay tribute to their former leader Paul Martin. That’s awfully nice. But given that Martin was onl...

While most eyes are focused on Montreal for the Liberal leadership convention, there's another interesting political battle taking place...

My friend Tasha Kheiriddin is taking conservatism to a place where it traditionally has been in short supply: the halls of academia. Tasha i...

The American left-wing group Moveon.org , flush from the recent Democratic electoral victory, is emailing out a survey to find out what it s...

The recent Parliamentary commotion about Quebec’s “nationhood” proves the nationalists in Quebec are winning. And that’s something all those...

Western society, goes the lecture we have all heard time and time again, is in the grips of an "obesity epidemic." Our kids are to...

Anyone who thinks the Internet isn't being put to good use obviously has never checked out this.

Turns out Shakespeare wasn't just a great playwright, he was also a capitalist .

Well I must say Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's economic statement yesterday was a bit of a let down. Yes, he did outline a prudent fisc...

Last night I attended an event put on by the Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Toronto . The topic was "Beyond the Bottom Line:Instilling Va...

Today is Thanksgiving in the United States, the day when everyone's thoughts turn to turkeys, otherwise known as the Detroit Lions. Upda...

OK let's review Prime Minister Stephen Harper's "blockbuster" statement yesterday in the House of Commons: "Our posit...

In today's Globe and Mail , John Ibbitson writes about the latest poll findings from Strategic Counsel. (Sorry it's behind a subscr...

Ok I know the U.S. mid-term election is ancient history and that there are a lot more important things going on in the world, such as the de...

Lots of people are suggesting the War on Terror violates "International Law". Now I am not a lawyer so I can't comment on the ...

Found out I've been alive 17,660 days or to put it another way 423,840 hours 0r 25,430,400 minutes or 1,525,824,000 seconds (as of Sund...

Here's something you don't see everyday -- an anti-communist cartoon . H/T R eason Magazine's Hit and Run

Yesterday I went to see Dr. Madsen Pirie , president of the UK-based Adam Smith Institute , who was speaking to the Empire Club. I first m...