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Why Did Covid Enforcement Target Religion?

Why Did Covid Enforcement Target Religion?

Religious leaders like Artur Pawlowski who question COVID-19 health restrictions are a “threat to public safety.” Or so the criticism goes. After giving a sermon in February 2022 in Coutts, Alberta, in which he urged trucker convoy protestors to...

Canada’s Inferno of Incivility

Canada’s Inferno of Incivility

We stand at a precipice where we face the danger of losing our humanity forever. Years from now, what I will remember most about the pandemic is not a virus but our response to it. We have become an intolerant, contemptful, rude and savage society,...

Dark Days for Our Ivory Towers

Dark Days for Our Ivory Towers

Commentary Dear class of 2026, Welcome to the beginning of the rest of your life! Ahead of you is four years of a lacklustre education which will saddle you with debt from which you may never emerge. Your professors will teach you not how to think...

In Defense of Uncertainty

In Defense of Uncertainty

I don’t know. On a scale of 1 to 10, how squeamish does this sentence make you feel? If the verbiage floating around social media is any indication, 21st century Canadians score pretty high in terms of our intolerance of uncertainty. In fact, we...

Hope Springs Eternal…with Some Effort

Hope Springs Eternal…with Some Effort

In the fall of 2021, after 20 years spent teaching philosophy at universities in Canada and the U.S, I was terminated “with cause” for challenging my university’s COVID policy.  Since then, I have been interviewed a number of times about my...

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