Articles written by Joseph Ben-Ami

Joseph C. Ben-Ami is President and CEO of the Canadian Centre for Policy Studies, a conservative public policy think-tank based in Canada.

To contact Joseph C. Ben-Ami send an email to jbenami@policystudies.ca or visit the website www.policystudies.ca

Politics, News & Issues > Environmental Awareness Global warming: Environmental concern or political propaganda: 1 of 12

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher used to say that she was happy when her opposition resorted to attacking her or her colleagues' character. It meant, she said, that they (her opponents) could not win the battle of ideas. If that is true, then the eco-extortionists are definitely on the run. For almost four dec...
Politics, News & Issues > Drug Laws & Prevention Insite: Medical research facility or drug abuse haven: 1 of 1

UN warns Canada: Safe injection sites, needle and crack pipe exchanges, violate international law Vancouver's safe injection site Insite is back in the news again, but this time, it's the United Nations drug control agency that is leading the criticism. According to Zhu Li-Qin, head of the Convention Evaluation Section of th...
Politics, News & Issues > Environmental Awareness The dangers of politicizing the issue of global warming: 8 of 14

The French have a saying: Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose the more things change, the more they remain the same. Ever since their emergence as a political force a little more than two centuries ago, fear-mongering and character assassination have been the tactics of choice of left-wing ideologues when neither the fa...