CategoryHealth and Social Policy
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Continue Reading →: A Case Against COVID-19 Amnesty in Canada
A Case Against COVID-19 Amnesty in Canada
But there should be no amnesty without determining the facts, without identifying those responsible for all the blunders and the culpable for deliberate deception resulting in possibly criminal decisions. To determine the facts, all databases related to COVID, medical, legal, social, and economic impacts should be open for all to see and study. The data…
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Continue Reading →: Boissonnault’s “NATO Moment” is Dangerously Hypocritical.
Boissonnault’s “NATO Moment” is Dangerously Hypocritical.
No human rights have been stripped, no individual has been persecuted, no law has even been drafted, and no one has been attacked, but that is no barrier to Danielle Smith’s detractors. The Alberta premier is drawing wild reactions from progressives. Her sin? Smith announced plans for policies to curtail surgical alterations for minors identifying…
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Continue Reading →: On the Right Path With New Gender Reassignment Restrictions
On the Right Path With New Gender Reassignment Restrictions
Jan. 31 was a significant day for parents, children, and women in Alberta. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith introduced thoughtful and promising policies to bridge partially the legal, medical, and moral divide that grips Western societies on gender identity and gender transformations. Smith’s solutions will reduce the short- and long-term harms to children and women athletes…
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Continue Reading →: BUY our NEW BOOK! Canada’s COVID: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic
BUY our NEW BOOK! Canada’s COVID: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic
Our new book Canada’s COVID: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic is now on sale in electronic form at AMAZON.ca. Print copies may also be purchased on Amazon or through the Haultain Institute (see HERE). This book deals with the political and social dimensions of the policy reaction to COVID-19. Nearly four years later,…
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Continue Reading →: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic
The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic
Excerpt from Chapter 7, “The Democratic Politics of Fear,” in the newly expanded book: Canada’s COVID: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic (February 2023) by Barry Cooper and Marco Navarro-Génie. Published in The Epoch Times. We consider the evidence for, and consequences of, government-induced fear leading to lack of trust. The outcome was not…
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Continue Reading →: Great COVID gaslight is under way
Great COVID gaslight is under way
The Great COVID Gaslighting is underway. I will leave it to historians to determine when and who precisely launched it, but it is certainly here. Gaslighting is a form of manipulation. In one of its manifestations, it is a crude attempt at altering reality to conceal one’s misdeeds. Its tool is the lie. The gas…
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Continue Reading →: Notley is still in denial over mandatory vaccination
Notley is still in denial over mandatory vaccination
Following a question at her first press conference as premier, Danielle Smith expressed sympathies for unvaccinated Canadians who were persecuted by the COVID-19 regime. Smith mentioned that these Canadians “have been the most discriminated against group that I have witnessed in my lifetime.” It was an “extraordinary period,” whose prejudicial practices she found “unacceptable.” Smith’s…
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Continue Reading →: Crisis politics are stormy politics: An evaluation of the Kenney Years
Crisis politics are stormy politics: An evaluation of the Kenney Years
In a crisis, compromise can become vice because it can quickly turn into indecision when people expect resolve. Crisis demands decisiveness, not zigzagging or reversals.
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Continue Reading →: Trudeau’s latest attacks upon the unvaccinated solve nothing
Trudeau’s latest attacks upon the unvaccinated solve nothing
The jab, Trudeau unimaginatively still claims, “is the only way out.” But in today’s fast-evolving viral environment, that’s yesterday’s thinking.
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Continue Reading →: Are the Pawlowski Brothers on the Wrong Side of History?
Are the Pawlowski Brothers on the Wrong Side of History?
In accusing Pawlowski of being on the wrong side of something, Justice Adam Germain tacitly claimed knowledge of the right side. Do science and history have categorical right sides?