From the beginning of the Covid panic, it felt that something was very wrong. Never had a pandemic, much less a seasonal pathogenic wave, been treated as a quasi-military emergency requiring the upending of all freedoms and rights. What made …
Ray McGinnis – Trudeau, The Emergencies Act and Triumph of Propaganda – Hugo Kruger Podcast
Ray McGinnis has been documenting the abuse of power that took place in Canada during the Trucker Protest. Earlier this year he joined South African Public Policy Commentator and Blogger Hugo Kruger to discuss the Propaganda Techniques that were used …
Time to Un-Cancel Diversity of Viewpoint
The quest for “diversity” has become the universal rallying cry for every institution, including universities, government departments, corporations, and even law societies. “Diversity” has been defined as including skin colour, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. However, the one kind of …
Peckford: I was Denied the Opportunity to Speak at a Canadian University
A law student friend of mine thought it would be a good idea to have me come to his law class and explain my involvement with the Constitution Act 1982 (last surviving First Minister who helped craft it and whose …
Return to Reason Podcast – David Leis– Your Internet Experience is About to be Restricted
Canadians should be concerned about legislation that may have implications for freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Proposed as a way to ensure diverse Canadian content is seen, Bill C-11 aims to “level the playing field” between broadcast and …
William Brooks: To Defend Academic Freedom, a Canadian Professor Calls for ‘Dangerous Universities’
Mark Mercer is a professor of philosophy at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, who has served as president of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship since 2015. SAFS is a Canadian organization whose members are devoted to “academic rigour, scholarly …
Out From the Shadows: Could Christian Nationalism be the Antidote to Globalist Tyranny?
In Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”, Socrates paints a striking portrait of people chained, from birth, deep in a cave by the neck and legs so that they can only see the dark walls inside the cave. Consequently, they only …
Why Frances Widdowson Matters
Frances Widdowson probably isn’t someone most Canadians recognize. I’m here to tell you why they should. In terms of Canada’s intellectual culture, Frances Widdowson matters because she is a classic and prolific academic. In a time when demagoguery easily flourishes, …
MEDIA RELEASE – New Frontier Centre Book Calls on Universities to be Dangerous
A Collection of Sharp and Insightful Challenges to Higher Education in Canada WINNIPEG, August 4, 2022 – The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just published In Praise of Dangerous Universities and Other Essays, by philosophy professor Mark Mercer. Universities …