Senior Fellow
Senior Fellow
In civic life, Bill served for eight years as an elected public school commissioner on Montreal’s West Island and as an active member of the Board of Governor’s for the former Quebec Association of Protestant School Boards. In 1980 he co-founded the St. Lawrence Institute in Montreal and collaborated for several years with the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to develop Can-Am leadership programs for students in free societies. In 2000, he co-founded the Center for the Advancement of Schools (CAS), a Montreal based consulting group specialising in educational policy assessment and the development of school success plans for the Province of Quebec.
Senior Fellow William Brooks argues media silence on Anti-Communism Week exposes a deeper strategy: ignore, vilify, then banish dissenting views. Today’s cultural gatekeepers are narrowing debate, ironically, using tactics once condemned in totalitarian regimes.
Bill Brooks argues for a Can-Am union, saying only bold economic, regulatory and security integration with the U.S. can rescue Canada from decline and counter China’s influence
When HMS Bristol—a Cold War-era British warship with a storied past—was quietly scrapped in 2024, Senior Fellow William Brooks saw more than just a naval relic lost. In this personal reflection, Brooks traces the ensign he inherited from his U.S. Navy uncle back to a time of true Western solidarity—through war, alliance, and shared values. Today, he laments the erosion of that unity, as identity politics, weakened militaries, and fractured alliances leave the West adrift in uncertain waters.
Pollsters at the Cultural Research Center of Arizona Christian University projected that 104 million people of faith, including 32 million Christian churchgoers, will abstain from voting in November “Intellect is not wisdom.” ― Thomas Sowell Considering Communism's...
The shift from virtues to values launched a revolution in thought that was both deceptive and troublesome. Today, a person’s values do not have to be virtuous.
Anyone old enough, or sufficiently familiar with the history of the English-speaking peoples, is likely to have formed an opinion about Margaret Thatcher, the United Kingdom’s first woman prime minister.