Making Sense with Nicholls

It looks like 2011 will be a good year for big government. Or at least big government will get richer while taxpayers get poorer. So says ...

T he Ontario Landowners Association has a list of some of the more outrageous abuses of private property rights that have taken place over t...

All things considered 2010 was a pretty good year for Canada ’s conservative movement. True, by American standards, conservatives here are ...

Scientist David Suzuki likes to think of rivers as the "earth's veins." Or at least I heard him say that recently on a TV in...

The Ottawa Hill Times newspaper recently listed the top 100 most influential people in government and politics. In what must be an overs...

Liberal spin doctor Warren Kinsella is offering, free of charge, an idea to the Opposition parties which he says "could blow Harper’s ...

If you're a conservative Roman Catholic, or if you just care about social/moral issues, I would strongly suggest you subscribe to The In...

About a year ago, I wrote a column in the Toronto Sun which presented the speech I wished Prime Minister Stephen Harper would give. Now in...

Twenty years ago William Gairdner came out with a book called The Trouble with Canada . A devastating critique of Canada ’s leftist econom...

The holiday season is here, meaning all of us are experiencing the same traditional Christmas feelings, feelings which at any other time of ...

Finally the folks running the National Citizens Coalition have caught on to their own irrelevancy. After years of wallowing in obscurity, ...

When I was in grade school, way, way back in the early 1970s (yes I am that old) I was subjected to (victimized by?) education reforms that ...

Canadian democracy is in grave danger. Or so say lots of pundits, journalists and academics who keep warning us about how the politicians i...

As we all know by now the big winner in the Monday by-election was, of course, Don Cherry. Other than that, the three by-elections were not...

I am scheduled to be on CTV's Power Play today as part of the "strategist" panel.

One of my favorite all time events is the Liberty Summer Seminar. Held every year at a beautiful, bucolic estate near Orno, Ontario, the LS...

Had an amazing time Friday night attending the Munk Debate in Toronto between former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and author/journalis...

I am scheduled to appear on CTV's Power Play today at about 5:10-5:15 PM ET.

I am quoted in this Hill Times article explaining how the Conservatives have successfully used the emotions of hope and fear in fundraisin...

Here's a letter to the editor I sent to the Globe and Mail in response to Jeffrey Simpson's call for higher taxes. ***** Jeffrey S...