A growing number of parents are taking their children out of public school systems in favor of private and charter schools.  And not a few are choosing to teach their children at home.  Why? The answer is obvious.  They are fed up with activists teaching their children values to which they don’t agree.  Where are we headed?  Considering how much has changed in the last five years, what pressures will you face trying to raise your children over the next five years?  The thought is alarming!

Starting in March 2019, thousands of protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong to show their dislike for a law that would allow suspected criminals, who had allegedly committed a crime in mainland China, to be extradited from Hong Kong back to China to face trial. Some demonstrations became violent, with the smashing of shops and vehicles and the throwing of Molotov cocktails and other projectiles at police who were trying restore order. So, are the protests worth the consequence?

The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 nearly brought the world to the unthinkable, a nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union -- in popular parlance, Armageddon. Although it was understood during those 13 tense days of October, that it was a close call, what we know today is enough to send chills through the spine of the most calloused individual. The well-being of the entire world, including here in Canada, was at stake.