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| Title: Canada Under Siege |
| Sub-title: How PEI Became a Forward Operating Base for the Chinese Communist Party |
| By (author): Garry Clement, Michel Juneau Katsuya With: Dean Baxendale |
| ISBN10-13: 0888903553 : 9780888903556 |
| What if one of Canadaâ s quietest provinces had become a staging ground for a foreign power? What if the red cliffs and tranquil shores of Prince Edward Island masked something more troublingâ something that reached from Charlottetown to Beijing? Canada Under Siege is an investigation into how the Chinese Communist Party may have quietly infiltrated Canadaâ s smallest province. At the heart of this inquiry is a fundamental question: How did a place known for simplicity and serenity become a strategic beachhead for elite capture, covert influence, and international subversion? Through a series of disturbing leads, veteran investigators Michel Juneau-Katsuya (CSIS) and Garry Clement (RCMP) follow the money, land deals, and political alignments that suggest Prince Edward Island may have become something more than a rural outpostâ it may be a case study in how foreign influence embeds itself deep within democratic systems. Their investigation begins with Frank Zhou and Sherry Huang, Chinese Canadian entrepreneurs whose presence on PEI extends far beyond tourism brochures. What role did they play in influencing political leaders, including former premiers Robert Ghiz and Wade MacLauchlan? Did the Provincial Nominee Programâ intended to promote immigrationâ become a tool for geopolitical leverage? Was Anne of China Inc. just a cultural venture, or a Trojan horse for soft power messaging disguised as economic partnership? The book asks: Why did so few challenge this convergence of political power and foreign capital? Why were public servants who raised concerns sidelined, silenced, or removed? Why did nobody act? Then there is the mystery of the Bliss and Wisdom Buddhist group, led by Zhen-Ru (Mary Jin). Promising to build a â Thousand Year Monasteryâ on the island, this Taiwan-based monastic group has acquired vast tracts of land through monastics and affiliated donors. Is this a closed religious community simply seeking peaceâ or something else entirely? Could its links to the Buddhist Association of China suggest a deeper form of ideological control under religious guise? Multiple sources, including the elusive Venerable Fan Yin, who quietly departed in 2017, hint at internal power struggles and shifting allegiances. But why has no one investigated who funds this expansion? Why is there so little public scrutiny? Across interviews with whistleblowers, activists, and security insiders, Canada Under Siege uncovers unanswered questions and disturbing patternsâ from aborted RCMP probes to quiet land transfers, from surveillance of diaspora communities to stalled legislation like Bill C-70. Why did CSIS warnings go ignored? Why is there still no foreign agent registry in Canada? What happens when political convenience outweighs national security? The final chapters take the reader across the Pacific to Taipei, where one investigator pursues a final leadâ one that may reshape how we understand influence, identity, and the global battle over Tibetan Buddhism and the succession of the Dalai Lama. This is not a book of questions but that of conclusions. Most importantly it is a dossier of questionsâ serious onesâ about the fragility of democratic institutions, the nature of infiltration, and how a tiny province may have quietly become the front line of a much larger conflict. The people and politicians who embraced both Chinese investment and monastic virtue may find that the made a faustian bargain that will impact the island for generations. |
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| Published: Optimum Publishing International - August 2025 |
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| Title: Wilful Blindness US and International Edition |
| Sub-title: How a Criminal network of narcos, tycoons and Chinese Communist Party agents infiltrated the West US Edition and International Edition |
| By (author): Sam Cooper Foreword by: Charles Burton Introduction by: Teng Biao |
| ISBN10-13: 0888903405 : 9780888903402 |
| The Number 1 best seller is updated This newly updated book features 2 new Chapters of content and insights infiltration of China, Russia and Iranian agents to undermine the very democracy we hold dear. Politicians and business elites including former Ambassadors to Canada, who may unwittingly have helped the criminal enterprises get a secure hold in the West. Soon after Wilful Blindness was published, I learned the book was having an impact in Beijing. I was contacted by Canadian intelligence and informed that Chinese espionage assets in Canada had been tasked with collecting information on me. Beijing wanted to know how the public was reacting to my book, and whether it could damage the Chinese Communist Party. It was shocking to hear this, but I wasnâ t surprised that the United Front Work Departmentâ s thin-skinned apparatchiks felt threatened by my granular reporting on their operations in Vancouver. I had named names and cited documents. I had even developed sources within local Chinese espionage networks. And I had drawn links between senior CCP official Bin Zhang, Markham underground casino suspect Wei Wei, and a Chinese front company that donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Prime Minister Justin Trudeauâ s family foundation. It canâ t be overstated how significant this reporting was. I showed how this espionage operation extended to elite criminal suspects and their United Front comrades in Vancouver, including the flag-waving leaders of rallies against Hong Kong Canadians. This in turn was all connected to Triad suspects with deep ties to illegal casinos, violent loan-sharking networks,Chinese police forces and military, and the Vancouver Model of money laundering and economic infiltration. And I continued to dig. After my book came out, I learned that the key fundraiser and Chinese community organizer for Justin Trudeau in Toronto was flagged in Fintrac suspicious transaction reports. The documents said this Markham man had, in just a few months, routed millions of dollars of wire transfers from Hong Kong for Chinese corruption suspects accused of big-time real estate money laundering in Canada. He was also tight with a top-tier CSIS..... Cooper has exposed the close ties between Chinese nationals who are dedicated to Beijing and have bought influence with all political parties in Canada. It's about time that former PM's cut their lucrative arrangements with the PRC and Cooper makes a compelling case as to how money through these networks has undermined our political process and policy engagement with the Peoples's Republic of China. Samâ s vigorous journalism on tracking and exposing money laundering has been crucial in the national push to reform and update Canadaâ s laws. This book pulls his work, and indeed the work of many professionals, into one explosive narrative. Canadian lore often pitches our country as a well-meaning good partner in the world. But as Samâ s report has shown, we are a node in global systems of corruption and crime, with the infiltration and implications only becoming worse over time. James Cohen, President of Transparency International Canada "A Gripping read that you won't want to put down" Benedict Rogers, Hong Kong Watch "This is a must-read book for concerned citizens who want to keep their democratic societies free" Solomon Yue, Vice-Chair and CEO, Republicans Overseas In 1982 three of the most powerful men in Asia met in Hong Kong. They would decide how Hong Kong would be handed over to the People's Republic of China and how Chinese business tycoons Henry Fok and Li Ka-Shing would help Deng Xiaoping realize the Chinese Communist Party's domestic and global ambitions. That meeting would not only change Vancouver but the world. Billions of dollars in Chinese investment would soon reach the shores of North America's Pacific coast. B.C. government casinos became a tool for global criminals to import deadly narcotics into Canada and launder billions of drug cash into Vancouver real estate. And it didn't happen by accident. A cast of accomplices - governments hungry for revenue, casino and real estate companies with ties to shady offshore wealth, professional facilitators including lawyers and bankers, an aimless RCMP that gave organized crime room to grow - all combined to cause this tragedy. There was greed, folly, corruption, conspiracy, and wilful blindness. Decades of bad policy allowed drug cartels, first and foremost the Big Circle Boys - powerful transnational narco-kingpins with ties to corrupt Chinese officials, real estate tycoons, and industrialists - to gain influence over significant portions of Canada's economy. Many looked the other way while B.C.'s primary industry, real estate, ballooned with dirty cash. But the unintended social consequences are now clear: a fentanyl overdose crisis raging in major cities throughout North America and life spans falling for the first time in modern Canada, and a runaway housing market that has devastated middle-class income earners. This story isn't just about real estate and fentanyl overdoses, though. Sam Cooper has uncovered evidence that shows the primary actors in so-called "Vancouver Model" money laundering have effectively made Canada's west coast a headquarters for corporate and industrial espionage by the CCP. And these ruthless entrepreneurs have used Vancouver and Canada to export their criminal model to other countries around the world including Australia and New Zealand. Meanwhile, Cooper finds that the RCMP's 2019 arrest of its top intelligence official, Cameron Ortis, raises many frightening questions. Could Chinese transnational criminals and state actors targeting Canada's industrial and technological crown jewels have gained protection from the Mounties? Could China and Iran have insight into Canada's deepest national security secrets and influence on investigations? According to the evidence Cooper has found, Ortis had oversight of many investigations into transnational money laundering networks and insight into sensitive probes of suspects seeking to undermine Canada's democracy and infiltrate the United States. Wilful Blindness is a powerful narrative that follows the investigators who refused to go along with institutionalized negligence and corruption that enabled the Vancouver Model, with Cooper drawing on extensive interviews with the whistle-blowers; thousands of pages of government and court documents obtained through legal applications; and large caches of confidential material available exclusively to Cooper. The book culminates with a shocking revelation showing how deeply Canada has been compromised and what needs to happen to get the nation back on track with its "Five Eyes" allies. "I'm astonished that some Hollywood production company hasn't already signed him for a big-screen treatment of this story. It's a huge story." - Terry Glavin, National Post |
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Pages: 416
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| Published: Optimum Publishing International - June 2022 |
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| Title: A Life in Paragraphs |
| Sub-title: Essays |
| By (author): Robert Fulford |
| ISBN10-13: 0888903030 : 9780888903037 |
| A panorama of curiosity, delight and thoughtful analysis. An anthology that takes the reader on an insightful journey through the past in understanding the present. Robert Fulford is arguably Canada's most distinguished journalist, essayist, and liberal thinker of our time. He began his career in 1950 at the Globe and Mail and wrote columns for more than 20 years at The Toronto Star, as well as being the editor for Saturday Night Magazine. Since 1999 his columns appear twice a week in The National Post. He is the author of more than ten books, and he delivered the Massey Lectures in 1984. But some of his best writing, certainly some of the most vibrant, appeared in the Queen's Quarterly from 2004-2014, home to many of Canada's more eloquent and thought-provoking writers for over a century including such luminaries as W.O Mitchell, Sinclair Ross, Mavis Gallant, Carol Shields and Margaret Atwood. Fulford's brilliant anthology is offered here. It is a literary time machine that transports the reader on a passage through events and social commentary with some of the most influential figures of the 20th and 21st centuries. Entertaining, thoughtful, and insightful, Fulford will engage young and old with these short stories and essays - and the timing could not be better. Concerned citizens wrestle with the knowledge that current political discourse has slipped to a level of contempt and rhetoric that treats most as intellectually weak. Today our collective conscience is influenced by art, literature, movies and music while modern philosophy and its stream of consciousness have been discounted or forgotten by many of the leaders amongst us. Robert recognized that the foundations of great societies are built on Ethics and Ethos, Right and Wrong and the concept of the Rule of Law. Ideals espoused by both classical and contemporary philosophers. Fulford taps into his fascination with ancient and 20th-century philosophy and present reasoning as he explores a myriad of subjects in his book. Readers will be entertained as they soon find themselves embarking on a journey of introspection, perspective and fascination with how our world has evolved around us. Significant figures, events and a changing social contract are prominent within these beautiful essays. A Robert Fulford essay is like a crisp dry martini; crystalline, refreshing, elating. An elegant craftsman in full command of the language, his work glows with dazzling insights, a profound humanity and gregarious good humour. The man's a master. - Michael Enright, broadcaster, host of CBC Radio's The Sunday Edition One thing I really admire about Robert Fulford's essays, apart from their calm erudition and the certainty of their judgement, is the boggling range of subjects he wraps his mind around, everything from television to the tango, from H.G. Wells's sexual affairs to parataxis in the King James Bible. - Ian Brown, columnist for the Globe and Mail, author of The Boy in the Moon and Man Overboard. |
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Pages: 256
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| Published: Optimum Publishing International - September 2020 |
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| Title: Bad Blood |
| By (author): Vic Parsons |
| ISBN10-13: 0888902921 : 9780888902924 |
| In the 1980's, Canada's blood collection and distribution system, once considered a model around the world, went off the rails. What occurred was a disastrous chain of events that still reverberates to this day for the thousands whose lives were changed forever by the system's failure.Vic Parsons examines the causes of what many have called the most significant public health issue in our country's history and outlines the failure of The Red Cross and the various levels of government implicated in what was a very preventable tragedy. The price of which cost taxpayers over $10 billion dollars, and many others their lives.This book also forms the backbone of an 8 part series being funded jointly by CBC Canada and Sundance TV that will air early 2019.This is not old wine in new bottles. The issue of blood collection and distribution continues to this day in Canada, the US, the UK and Australia. The public policy debates remain current as companies wishing to open pay-for-blood-services now operate in one province and are being blocked in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta. The UK is re-opening hearings this fall into the tainted blood collection issue as successive governments have failed to deal with the aftermath. It remains one of the most topical health issues today. |
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Pages: 320
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| Published: Optimum Publishing International - December 2018 |
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| Title: Grenville Christian College |
| Sub-title: School of Secrets |
| By (author): Andrew Hale-Byrne, Ewan Whyte |
| ISBN10-13: 0888903561 : 9780888903563 |
| Andrew Hale-Byrne and Ewan Whyte, students at the Grenville Christian College, tell the bizarre story of how an elitist cult on Cape Cod, founded by two self-proclaimed holy women, managed to infiltrate and take over a preppy Anglican boarding school in Ontario. With patronage from the highest levels of Canada's government and business elites, Grenville College and its partners actively covered up abuse decades of abuse and malpractice. What followed were many years of institutional violence -- psychological, physical and sexual abuse -- against the children of the school, all under the guise of establishment Anglicanism. Ewan was raised in the Community of Jesus School Cult, and along with Andrew, chronicled the history of the abused victims and how Andrew exposed the school management, the cult and the Ontario establishment. The upper-crust cult on Cape Cod was a â whoâ s whoâ list of the cream of society, including a Rockefeller heiress, a Chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a Chairman of Arthur Young. Andrew and Ewan provide a look inside the peculiar world of a religious cult at the apex of American and Canadian societies, from the dizzying heights of wealth that backed the school to the harrowing suffering of students. Due to Andrew's exposé, many victims of abuse have been targeted by retaliation campaigns launched by the school, its defenders and a corrupt Anglican hierarchy. However, death threats have not intimidated Andrew from his mission in his fight for justice, which culminated in the Canadian courts. Matters pertaining have now been proven in the Canadian courts. In the past two years, four judges in Ontario ruled in favour of Grenville Christian College litigants, awarding them 12 million dollars in damages. This was the first class action under the 1992 Class Proceedings Act of Ontario to go to a full common issues trial and the first to win. All previous court actions have been settled out of court. While such a victory has been won, this sum is a mere pittance compared to the pain and suffering many have endured and continue to live with every day. Countless former students have committed suicide, including recently in the United States, where a former cult member self-immolated in front of the Israeli embassy. As the saga continues to twist and turn beyond the courtroom and into the lives of Grenvilleâ s victims, Andrew and Ewan present a work documenting the extent of the schoolâ s actions and those that covered up the systemic abuse emanating from this once revered institution. These include four Lieutenant Governors, Members of Parliament, Diplomats, and Anglican Bishops. |
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Pages: 288
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| Published: Optimum Publishing International - April 2026 |
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| Title: Hybrid Warfare |
| Sub-title: The Citizens Guide to World War 3 |
| By (author): Optimum Publishing |
| ISBN10-13: 0888903456 : 9780888903457 |
Hybrid Warfare and its Characteristics To put it simply, hybrid warfare entails an interplay or fusion of conventional as well as unconventional instruments of power and tools of subversion. These instruments or tools are blended in a synchronised manner to exploit the vulnerabilities of an antagonist and achieve synergistic effects. The key pillars of Hybrid War. - Disinformation and Propoganda
- Government infiltration operations
- Lawfare
- Espionage including, Economic and military IP theft
- Economic warfare (including supply chain domination, hoarding rare earth minerals and the control of organizations that align with the CCP's needs of the future).
- Most insideously the reverse Opium wars that has been yet another genocide of sorts against innocent citizens around the world. Over 150,000 citizens around the world die from pills primarily manufactured in factories in Vancouver, B.C. and Mexico
- Genocide within its own borders
- Transnational Repression
In 2023 we find ourselves with difficult choices as we choose who we will work with and in the future. The Chinese Communist Party has been working to position itself as the globes final arbitor on the rule of law, the definition of human, civil and religious rights and what citizens around the world can expect when they win their war and replace America as the world's predominant global hegemony. What world leaders and ciizens were led to believe is that by engaging China at all levels and providing them access to our markets, our capital, global institutions and universities that they would bend, alter and change from a repressive Marxist/lenonist regime to a socially progressive naton that embraced many Liberal deomcratic norms, laws and human rights initiatives. As the author wrote in 2021 for Macdonal Laurier's At Issue "And for its part, notwithstanding lazy and half-hearted expressions of â concernâ from Ottawa, Canada has done precious little to defend the basic rights of those living under the CCPâ s oppression. So much for the rhetoric of Canada being â backâ on the world stage. As Chinaâ s supreme leader, Xi Jinping, has stated, â no one is in the position to dictate to the Chinese people what should and should not be done.â Indeed, it seems as though the UN and much of the world has taken this statement as a direct order. Much of the worldâ s hesitancy to criticize the CCPâ s human rights record stems from how the regime has managed to engage in institutional and elite capture. A combination of economic pressure and geostrategic maneuvering has allowed China to control or render meek large swaths of the international system. The United Front Work Departmentâ s global enterprise of covert and overt influence operations ensures governments continue to be blinded by the PRCâ s real ambitions and preventing backlash against them on all matters, including human rights abuses. This is all part of a Xiâ s grander strategy, one that envisions a world where human and civil rights and the international rule of law are replaced by a dystopian and dictatorial ethno-nationalist ideology guided by the CCP. We cannot allow China to spread its abuses globally by supporting countries with consistent human rights violations, nor can we allow China to dictate a new world order under their rules. This book is the first book of its kind and will take concerned citizens through all of the pillars that form the Chinese Communist Party's Hybrid War against all democracies. From the United Front to partnership with the worlds largest heroin and opiod dealers, to organ harvesting and committing genocide at home the corrupt regime under leader Xi Jinping continues its war against us all and yet they have not had to fire a single shot. Author Baxendale has spent the last four years researching and observing the actions of the CCP and has uncovered numerous stories that have made international headlines. From the CCP training soldiers on Canadian soil to the discovery of the "genocide prisons in East Turkestan(Xinjiang) by author Shawn Zhang, Baxendale has had a front row seat on what the CCP is succeeding at as it relates to you and your familie's freedoms. |
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Pages: 260
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| Published: Optimum Publishing International - October 2023 |
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| Title: If You Ask Me |
| By (author): Morris W Dorosh |
| ISBN10-13: 0888902956 : 9780888902955 |
| "Populism is not a political theory, system or ideology. It is a crude appeal to a certain part of the population gaining support by reinforcing their belief that their economic and social attainments are limited by a political system that disadvantages them..."What is the influence of conservative principles on the Canadian political landscape? What are current conservative positions on today's issues and events? Is Canada a conservative-friendly country or have we, as a nation, moved so far left that almost any conservative view or perspective gets trashed almost immediately? These questions, and others, Morris W Dorosh attempts to answer in his new book, You Ask Me: Reflections of a Canadian Conservative.Dorosh argues that political interaction today is unprecedentedly combative. Civility, respect for opposing points of view, common sense, and the capacity for compromise belong to a different age. To an age where one's qualifications for a political position were crucial to being elected. Political life today, he points out, disproportionally attracts candidates of mediocre ability because of the economic benefits offered by the positions. Thus, we end up with legislators with responsibilities and authority for which they have little experience, less preparation and no background.The book is a collection of opinion papers first penned by Dorosh in Agri-Week, a newsletter for executives, owners and investors now in its 52nd year of publication. |
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| Published: Optimum Publishing International - October 2019 |
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| Title: Maple's Garden |
| Sub-title: A Canadian Freedom of Speech Story |
| By (author): Christine Van Geyn Illustrated by: Lisa Ng |
| ISBN10-13: 0888903731 : 9780888903730 |
| One small garden. One big voice. A story of courage, nature, and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Mapleâ s Garden is a beautifully illustrated childrenâ s book that introduces young readers to the power of standing up for whatâ s rightâ and how even kids can make a difference. Inspired by a real constitutional case, this uplifting story follows Maple, a nature-loving girl whose wild, pollinator-friendly garden is threatened by city laws and a meddling mayor. But when rules clash with values, Maple discovers her voiceâ and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Written by Christine Van Geyn, a leading constitutional lawyer and civil liberties advocate, Mapleâ s Garden explores freedom of expression in a way children can understand, connect to, and be inspired by. Paired with enchanting illustrations by Lisa Ng, the story delivers a powerful civics lesson wrapped in the warmth of a mother-daughter bond, a love of nature, and a sweet plate of pancakes. Key Themes of Maple's Garden - True-story inspiration: Based on real Canadian legal cases defending natural gardens and expression rights. - Civic education for kids: Introduces core democratic principles in age-appropriate language. - Empowering message: Encourages kids to express themselves, respect diverse perspectives, and care for the environment. - Curriculum tie-ins: Perfect for classrooms teaching about Canadian rights, the Constitution, environmental studies, or social justice. - Family-friendly tone: Ideal for read-alouds and bedtime stories with a message that resonates long after. Whether you're a parent, teacher, librarian, or bookseller, Mapleâ s Garden is a timely and inspiring resource to help young Canadians understand and celebrate their freedom to express what matters most. |
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| Published: Optimum Publishing International - September 2025 |
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| Title: Nuclear Revolution |
| Sub-title: Powering the Next Generation |
| By (author): Jack Spencer Foreword by: Steve Moore |
| ISBN10-13: 088890357X : 9780888903570 |
| Skyrocketing energy prices are placing downward pressure on economic growth throughout the world. There seems to be no relief in sight, with hundreds of millions without access to reliable energy and with global energy consumption expected to grow by 50 percent over the next 30 years. Some would impose energy rationingâ or in other words, slow human progress. But with nearly 46 percent of the worldâ s population living on less than $5.50 per day, slowing human progress is unacceptable. The only solution is more energy and lots of it. Jack Spencer, in his upcoming book, Going Nuclear: Reestablishing American Commercial Nuclear Dominance, argues that nuclear energy offers real answers to power our homes and industries, clean our air and water, and maybe even take us to Mars. However, we have been getting nuclear power wrong for decades. Skeptics say that nuclear energy is too expensive and threatens the world with the proliferation of nuclear weapons material and radioactive waste. Proponents say that nuclear power needs and deserves the support of the state and the taxpayer, cradle to grave. The time has come, Spencer argues, to think big nuclear energy and pull it out of the time capsule that pop culture, environmental activists, lobbyists, peaceniks, and policymakers are all too content to leave nuclear in. Spencer writes that while the government-industry partnership that defined the early years of Americaâ s commercial nuclear rise was essential to the nationâ s security, reluctance to modernize that relationship has prevented the American nuclear industry from reaching its full potential. In its place, Spencer offers an alternative that shatters how we think about nuclear energy policy and realigns the responsibilities of government and industry with the incentives that will drive America to success. Going Nuclear describes why government intervention in the nuclear industry is a problem, how to move from the status quo to something new, and why such reforms will kick off an era of nuclear entrepreneurship and innovation. Over 70 years ago, nuclear energy entered the scene with great promise. Now more than ever, the world needs that promise delivered, and America can lead the way. |
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| Published: Optimum Publishing International - November 2024 |
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| Title: Pandemic Panic |
| Sub-title: How Canadian Government Responses to Covid 19 Changed Civil Liberties Forever |
| By (author): Christine Van Geyn, Joanna Baron Foreword by: Preston Manning |
| ISBN10-13: 0888903499 : 9780888903495 |
| In October 2022, the economist Emily Oster wrote a plea for a â pandemic amnestyâ . After detailing various ill-conceived public health policies throughout the pandemic, Oster concluded that â The standard saying is that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. But dwelling on the mistakes of history can lead to a repetitive doom loop as well.â She reasoned that many admittedly poor, public health decisions were made in an information vacuum and that the salubrious thing to do going forward would be to forgive and forget. Oster was concerned about the fraying social fabric because of polarizing online discourse and urged the need to move forward. However, our anecdotal experience has shown a second common response to pandemic mishaps- going blank entirely on what occurred during the pandemic. We have observed a phenomenon of the surreal, sometimes inane, often unprecedented and unusual public health measures taken over the roughly three-year pandemic period being â memory holedâ , where the mind completely fogs over. Many times in the course of writing this book, we have messaged one another upon unearthing one public policy absurdity upon another: the City of Toronto taping off cherry blossoms, Quebec requiring unvaccinated people to be chaperoned in plexiglass carts through the essential aisles of big-box stores. We are not psychologists, but no doubt there is an evolutionary benefit to allowing a collective trauma to dissolve into the slip-stream: itâ s unproductive to dwell on how we got by and how our government coped in real-time. Our memories are warped, first, by the â primacy effectâ â our tendency to remember â firstsâ exemplified by people universally naming George Washington when asked to recall former U.S. presidents. Most people have a crystal clear memory of the moment their plague year started in earnestâ for us and many others; it was March 11, 2020, the day the NBA suspended games for the rest of the season. |
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| Published: Optimum Publishing International - November 2023 |
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