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Anthony Rota resigns as Speaker of the House of Commons
Published September 26, 2023

On September 26^th of this year, we were treated to a media frenzy surrounding the Speaker of the House’s decision to honour a Ukrainian army veteran from the Second World War.

Yarolslav Hunka was born in Urman, Second Polish Republic (now Ukraine). In 1943 at the age of 18, Hunka volunteered to join the 14^th Waffen Grenadier Division of Hitler’s SS. Like many Ukrainians he was hoping to liberate what is now the Ukraine from Russian occupation.

So at the impressionable age of 18, Hunka chose to join Hitler’s SS to rid his homeland of one of the 20^th century’s most brutal dictators and mass murderers[1]. It would have been an impossible choice if Hitler admitted that he was at least as despicable as Stalin. But that isn’t how such things work.

Now, as the result of the mindless political correctness of Canada’s politicians of all stripes – not to mention all the mainstream media – the 98-year-old Hunka and his family are in hiding.

Canadians born after World War II have never faced such an impossible choice. However, we may be if Donald Trump somehow defies common sense, and becomes president again. According to some estimates, that will make a sizable minority of Conservative voters happy[2].

[1] https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/joseph-stalin

[2] According to an article in the Globe updated on January 7th, 2022, pollsters estimate that 6 million Canadians support Trump or the Trumpist ideology.

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Launch – June 16th, 2023

The MAIN STREET JOURNAL was launched online in 2023, as a kind of Canadian, small business counterpoint to the venerable WALL STREET JOURNAL (WSJ), established in New York City in 1889.

Canada’s small businesses are smaller than most people think.

This is true for people that work in small businesses, for policymakers, business schools, and the business press. The self-employed and other small business owners don’t ‘get no respect’ and yet about 73% of private sector employment in Canada is made up of the 2.85 million self-employed individuals, and 1.3 million small employer businesses which average less than 7 employees.

We believe it’s time that these workers, and the small business owner-managers that employ them, got some respect. What’s more, we believe that business schools and policymakers should get out of their ivory towers and take a walk on Main Street!

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