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Continue Reading →: Government is Addicted to Your Obedience: Why Citizens Must Reject Bans
Government is Addicted to Your Obedience: Why Citizens Must Reject Bans
When Susan Holt, Premier of New Brunswick, explained why New Brunswickers couldn’t go for a walk in the woods, she probably thought she was being reasonable. After all, she was talking about safety, and who could be against safety? Her tone was casual, a little hesitant, almost folksy, as if she were explaining to a…
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Continue Reading →: The COVID-19 Regime Has Collapsed under Its Own Contradictions
The COVID-19 Regime Has Collapsed under Its Own Contradictions
The last few weeks have exposed schizophrenic aspects of Canadian culture and its influence on governments’ behaviour. The most palpable example lies in how we trampled – in fear – over memory and institutions, obsessively protective and morally dismissive of dignity and human life simultaneously. The COVID-19 lockdown has been a strange time for people…
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Continue Reading →: The Lockdown Failed Our Most Vulnerable
The Lockdown Failed Our Most Vulnerable
In the long-term, a variety of small-scale alternatives that uphold the dignity of residents as a high priority is the best way to atone for the current failures.
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Continue Reading →: We Can Learn from Sweden’s Achievement in Protecting Its Democratic Traditions
We Can Learn from Sweden’s Achievement in Protecting Its Democratic Traditions
Much ink has been assigned to Sweden for its distinct approach to COVID-19 among Western nations. As more jurisdictions wrestle with lifting economic restrictions, Sweden is both praised and condemned. People readily condemn Stefan Löfven’s Social Democrat (Sweden’s NDP equivalent) government for not emulating China and for violating what Swedish academicians called the “lockdown consensus.” For its less…
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Continue Reading →: Trudeau’s Failed Power Grab Is an Attack on Democracy
Trudeau’s Failed Power Grab Is an Attack on Democracy
The Trudeau government’s effort to transfer power temporarily from the House of Commons to the Office of the Finance Minister was an unconstitutional attempt to bypass the will of Canadians as expressed in the 2019 election.