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Nov 3, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | Michael Cook |Melanie Notkin
In 2022, 13,241 Canadians died through Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) – 4.1% of all deaths. The advance of MAID has been astonishing. Since euthanasia and assisted suicide were legalised in 2016, there have been 44,958 MAID deaths. About one Canadian in 25 dies after a lethal injection. It took Belgium and the Netherland about 20 years to reach this level of normalised euthanasia – it has taken Canada only seven years. Bioethics commentator Wesley J.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | Mathew Otieno |Michael Cook |Melanie Notkin
King Charles III is wrapping up a state visit to Kenya. It is his first trip as king to Africa, as well as to a member-state of the Commonwealth of Nations. The visit is replete with symbolism; his late mother, Queen Elizabeth, learnt of her father’s death while in Kenya.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | James Bradshaw |Michael Cook |Melanie Notkin
Social Justice FallaciesBy Thomas Sowell. Basic Books. 2023. 225 pages. Ninety-three is a good age to see one’s book being published. All the more impressive too, when the nonagenarian in question has already had more than 40 books published. Thomas Sowell has semi-retired but has not slowed down much.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | Michael Cook |Melanie Notkin
“In war, truth is the first casualty.” —Aeschylus (c. 525–456 BC)I have been trying to discern truth concerning the Israel-Gaza conflict. I have examined various perspectives and I have weighed arguments pro-and-con. Below are a few of my thoughts thus far, set out in an objection-reply format.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | Michael Cook |Melanie Notkin
“The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives—all that was over.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | Michael Cook |Melanie Notkin
Music in the midst of disaster reminds us that hope is precious and real. This flash mob singing “You Raise Me Up” in New York’s Times Square earlier this year is inspiring. The contemporary Gospel song dates back to 2002 when it was first recorded by Secret Garden. The video was created by the World Mission Society Church of God.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | Antonio Graceffo |Michael Cook |Melanie Notkin
"We urge the international community to collectively address the harm caused by colonialism, eradicate its lasting legacy, uphold international fairness and justice, and foster the establishment of a fairer and more equitable international order," a Chinese official recently told the United Nations.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | Fabiano Micoli |Michael Cook |Melanie Notkin
With the wildland fire season winding down in Canada, this might a good time to look back at what happened and at how some people tried to explain why a staggering 17.9 million hectares burned. That’s more than six times the 10-year average. It’s not all loss, however. We need to keep in mind that fire is part of the natural renewal process of forests. Some pine cones, for example, will not release their seeds until they are subjected to very high temperatures that forest fires produce.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | Ben Terangi |Michael Cook |Melanie Notkin
“We are flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation.”So said Jen Psaki, then-White House press secretary, in July 2021. They were words that would return to haunt the Biden administration and its sprawling network of faceless federal thought police. Over two years later, the highest court in the land has agreed to hear arguments in Missouri v. Biden, the bombshell case brought against the Federal Government and its agencies first triggered when Psaki belled the cat.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
mercatornet.com | Jon Miltimore |Michael Cook |Melanie Notkin
Stanley Zhong did everything right. A 4.42 weighted GPA (3.98 unweighted). A 1590SATscore (1600 is perfect). He’d even launched his own startup (RabbitSign). Yet the 18-year-old Palo Alto-area graduate was stunned when he found himself rejected by 16 of the 18schoolshe’d applied to, including multiple state schools. “Some of the state schools, I really thought, you know, I had a good chance,” Zhongtold ABC7 News.
