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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 →: Prime Minister Trudeau Has Eroded Canada’s Place in the World
Prime Minister Trudeau Has Eroded Canada’s Place in the World
Canada’s standing in the world has been eroded under Prime Minister Trudeau. Why would other countries support the new version of Canada on the world stage?
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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 →: Think-Tank Influence
Think-Tank Influence
Think Tanks are organizations that come in a variety of forms and models, but their general goal is to generate ideas and data, arguments and imagery that will seed public debates, influence discourse. New options for policy; ways to do thing better.
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Continue Reading →: Eco-ideologues at the Ready to Profit from Health Crisis
Eco-ideologues at the Ready to Profit from Health Crisis
Radical ideologues from the University of Alberta are prepared to inflict more pain and suffering upon Albertans in the oil industry for the sake of accelerating the advent of the pristine future they expect to arrive soon.
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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.
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Continue Reading →: Three Elements Converge into a Perfect Economic Storm for Alberta
Three Elements Converge into a Perfect Economic Storm for Alberta
In the midst of a perfect triad of storms, Alberta should combat the COVID-19 pandemic as though there were no attempts to choke Alberta’s oil industry, and it must combat the attempts to choke Alberta’s oil industry as though there was no COVID-19.
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Continue Reading →: Laurentian Canada Determined to Kill Oil Sands Development
Laurentian Canada Determined to Kill Oil Sands Development
As predicted weeks ago, Albertans did not need to hold their breath for Ottawa’s approval of the Frontier oil sands mine. Reports of massive opposition within the Liberal Party caucus and rumours of an appeasing “economic aid” package for the province were strong indicators that the federal cabinet had no intentions to approve the Frontier…