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1. Hope springs eternal for freedom worldwide

   A freedom recedes globally, the question is whether the tide has turned for good. Pessimism is in order for the short-run (say 20 years), but history provides hope for the long-run. The just released Human Freedom Index 2020: A Global ...

2. China sets debt traps, threatens militarily

   China has already blocked 15 million of its citizens from train and airline travel. ...

3. Where the rule of law weakens, freedom wanes

   Appeared in National Newswatch, February 21, 2018 For the first time in decades, basic human freedom is under attack globally. Journalists and opposition leaders are killed in Russia. China’s Communist Party stifles dissent on the mainland while ...

4. Myanmar’s ‘hero’ holds anti-free market views

   Appeared in the Daily Caller, December 9, 2015 The Myanmar miracle marches on, but don’t stop holding your breath. Great hazards are emerging ahead. Still, the most recent shockingly good news is that former military dictator Than Shwe has declared the ...

5. Little reason to expect agreement between democracies and the rest

   Appeared in the Okanagan Saturday, Waterloo Region Record, and Trail Daily Times International talks often become forums of mutual incomprehension as the world again breaks into two opposing camps with two incompatible worldviews: “the democracies” and ...

6. Liberty in the crosshairs in Hong Kong

   Appeared in the National Post As pro-democracy demonstrations flare across Hong Kong, it continues to rank first in the world in economic freedom. Hong Kong has been at the top since 1970, according to the just-released Fraser Institute Economic Freedom ...

7. Changes to the Indian Act are a Step Forward

   Appeared in the Saint John Telegraph-Journal and the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal In this light, the response of Grand Chief Matthew Coon Come of the Assembly of First Nations to the proposed changes to the Indian Act is immensely disappointing. He ...