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Nota in Brevis
Bill C-7 Passes the House
Like the Angel of Death, but one that did not pass over, Bill C-7 has been approved by the House of Commons, the Liberals shutting down debate, with the help of the Bloc Quebecois....
Editor's Corner
Austen, Python and Regaining Humour
Why are things funny? Humour has eluded philosophers, and even more so scientists - and we are living in an increasingly humourless world, with jokes verboten, and everything reduced to a literalistic present tense....
Editor's Corner
Let My People Go…
In this Lenten season, readers may feel like the Israelites, under their heavy taskmasters in Egypt, forced to make bricks without straw. People must pay rent and mortgages and taxes without jobs or income;...
Featured Highlights
Don’t Get Comatose: The German Euthanasia Program and the Barbarism of Bill C-7
George Santayana's aphorism that those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it came to mind quite forcefully this week. And, I thought, if ignorance of history is so deleterious, what are...
Editor's Corner
Thanatophilia, Thanatophobia, Keep Your Chins Up, and Keep That Hope in Ya’
(The title of this brief reflection was an attempt at a musical rhyme - and if the theme were not so tragic, I might write the verses of a tragico-comic hymn. Perhaps I may...
Nota in Brevis
Amazon’s Censorship and Southwell’s Truth
Censorship on a scale even Orwell couldn't imagine in 1984 is ramping up, only four decades or so off his predicted date, but here we are: Amazon has just erased Ryan Anderson's factual, science-based...
Articles
Doubt on Doubling Down
Are we still permitted to question and debate the mask and lockdowns, or is the new inquisition muzzling us in more than a figurative way? For all the anti-bullying rhetoric going around, people can...
Editor's Corner
Beginning Lent
A blessed and grace-filled Lenten season to all our readers, beginning with this solemn commemoration of Ash Wednesday to launch us on our way through our own ‘forty days’ in the metaphorical desert.
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