Marco Navarro-Génie
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Continue Reading →: Premier Kenney Places Albertans “Beyond the Pale”
Premier Kenney Places Albertans “Beyond the Pale”
One would think that citizens whose lives are being hurt by their own government policies would receive sympathy and compassion. But instead, those suffering outside the medical tutelage of Alberta Health are disparaged as “unhinged conspiracy theorists.”
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Continue Reading →: Premier Kenney May Be Down, but He’s Not Out
Premier Kenney May Be Down, but He’s Not Out
Premier Kenney may be in trouble, if one believes in the recent polls, but don’t count him out.
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Continue Reading →: Two Pandemics Are More Frightful than One
Two Pandemics Are More Frightful than One
This week marked the anniversary of the COVID-19 confinements that were only supposed to last for a few weeks. That was 52 weeks ago. In many ways, fear became the pandemic. Different people drive the COVID-19 fear, but its principal generators are statisticians and the medical bureaucrats–the experts “advising” the politicians, who in turn display…
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Continue Reading →: Joe Biden Has Killed the Alberta-51 Option
Joe Biden Has Killed the Alberta-51 Option
About a third of Albertans steadily favour breaking away from Canada. That number has recently been as high as 50 percent (February 2020, Angus Reid). Some among them believe that joining the US as a 51st state is the best option. But that’s not likely the case anymore. The impulse to reject Canada is not…
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Continue Reading →: Computer Modelers Are Still Driving the COVID-19 Fear Wagon
Computer Modelers Are Still Driving the COVID-19 Fear Wagon
Renewed calls for prolonged lockdowns to deal with the new SARS-CoV-2 mutations are wrong headed. It has been a year since emergency measures were declared. Yet, the policy response to the COVID-19 crisis has been and continues to be moved by fear that is in turn propelled by statistical models incapable of accounting for risk…
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Continue Reading →: Skills Matter, Not Where You Are From
Skills Matter, Not Where You Are From
There is wisdom in the long-standing advice about offering unsolicited advice, which is independent of whether the advice given is good, bad or petty. This is because it’s difficult to offer unsolicited advice without actively joining, or appearing to join, a busybody club. Publicly given “advice” always begs the question of intentions, agendas and ambitions.…
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Continue Reading →: NEW BOOK! COVID-19 The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic
NEW BOOK! COVID-19 The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic
COVID-19 The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic explores the political and social responses that have been tributary to the medical responses during the COVID-19 pandemic. What is a moral panic? The term was introduced by Stanley Cohen in his 1972 book, Folk Devils and Moral Panics, which was based on his PhD dissertation in…
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Continue Reading →: ‘Second Wave’ Fears Further Threaten Civil Liberties
‘Second Wave’ Fears Further Threaten Civil Liberties
On September 18, Israel relocked down the country for the following three weeks, becoming the first developed country to shut down for the second time. This second COVID-19 lockdown comes four months after lifting the first one instituted in March. How Israeli citizens react to the unsustainable nature of re-lockdowns will be instructive for the…