Reprinted from Vice Magazine On Friday, the world found out about PRISM: a secret tool developed by the United States’ National Security Agency that has been used, since 2007, to directly tap into the servers of companies like Facebook, Google, and
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Disappearing Mr. Goro
On Tuesday, April 23rd 2013, Jan Goro didn’t show up for work. A 66-year old janitor in Banff’s Whyte Museum, the absence of Goro did not go unnoticed. His boss called the house where Goro lived alone with his cat.
Debating the Legality of Prostitution
Later this week, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear arguments in a constitutional challenge of our prostitution laws. As an experiment, I endeavor to answer this question using a method made famous by St. Thomas Aquinas in his Summa
Taxation is Robbery
Excerpted from Out of Step: The Autobiography of an Individualist, by Frank Chodorov; The Devin-Adair Company, New York, 1962, pp. 216-239. The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines taxation as “that part of the revenues of a state which is obtained by the compulsory dues and
The Trouble With Compensatory Justice
In Morris and Linda Tannehill’s 1970 book, Market For Liberty, the authors argue that the current law enforcement system is rooted, not in justice, but rather in vengeance, and that a justice system consisted with the principles of liberty would
Cloning and Temperance
The news of a breakthrough in stem cell harvesting via human cloning has rekindled the old debate over the efficacy of producing carbon copies of a person. A recent paper published by Shoukhrat Mitalipov of Oregon Health and Science University
The Age of the Entitled Employee
Today’s employees seem to think that they are owed a job. That, simply by virtue of their existence, others must be compelled to give them money regardless of the value of their labor. Case in point, the 60 year old
Whistleblower Proection Should Be Left Up To Companies
The plight of whistleblower can be a lonely one. They risk their job, and indeed, any future employment in order to stand up for their principles, and for that they should be commended. It is understandable, then, that we would
Learning from Mistakes
The old idiom “you can lead a horse to water, but not make him drink” has proven itself true in the course of human learning. Or rather, it would be more accurate to label it man’s inability to learn from
The Danger of Involuntary Commitment
In the aftermath of the Newtown school shooting and the Boston bombing, there has been a veritable circus of finger pointing to determine who is responsible for such heinous acts of violence, and what can be done to prevent them
The RCMP’s Drug Problem
“There’s more cocaine than marijuana in Canmore,” my friend tells me. Another friend, in a different context tells me the same thing, “It’s easier here to get coke than weed.” Makes sense, I reason. Every month I read about the
My Dinner with Cody Wilson: “I’m Looking Forward to Jail”
Reprinted from TheTruthAboutGuns.com Update- The US Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance, Enforcement Division has requested Cody Wilson remove information for how to print the world’s first 3 dimensional gun – the Liberator. Wilson has complied. A colleague of mine
Nullify the War on Drugs
Reprinted from Mises.org Public opinion now favors the outright legalization of marijuana with nearly three-out-of-four adults in favor of legalizing medical marijuana. These numbers should continue to grow, because the polls exhibit a type of “generation effect,” in that people
A LeaderShift: What we need in our country today
It’s time for power to go back to where it belongs; to the people. With politicians and the business elite making all our decisions for us, we are losing our freedoms each and every day, and our standard of living
Fractional-Reserve Banking’s Risky Deal
CIBC and President’s Choice Financial recently announced an “aggressive” interest rate offer on savings accounts. In a bid to attract clients from their rivals the partnership will pay 2.6 percent interest on all new deposits. While normally people are wary
Nullify the War on Drugs
Reprinted from Mises.org Public opinion now favors the outright legalization of marijuana with nearly three-out-of-four adults in favor of legalizing medical marijuana. These numbers should continue to grow, because the polls exhibit a type of “generation effect,†in that people
Five Common Misconceptions about Employment “Off the Books”
There is a stigma attached to the productive activity commonly called employment “off the books” or “under the table”. This is the case in which the employer and the employee hide their relationship from the state and thus avoid being
Intellectual Property: A Classical Liberal and a Libertarian Assessment
Many contemporary theorists and commentators frame the question of intellectual property as a question of ownership over ideas. In this framework, a new product is seen as an embodiment of a new idea. Producing multiple copies of a new product is
Disam Them and Make Them Spy On Each Other
Reprinted from LewRockwell.com Benjamin M. Wassell of Silver Creek, New York, a wounded Iraq war veteran, is the first resident of that state to be arrested and face prosecution under its draconian new firearms law. He was arrested during an
The Misguided Crusade Against Hidden Bank Accounts
 With its latest budget – sorry, “economic action plan†– Canada’s government has taken a morally ominous turn. A provision in the budget proposes to empower the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) with the ability to reward individuals who provide information
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