Reading Time: 3 minutes The garbage at the centre of an international dispute was to arrive in Vancouver on the weekend
Author: Gerry Bowler
Gerry Bowler grew up in Saskatoon and earned his first two academic degrees from the University of Saskatchewan. He received his Ph.D. in History from King’s College, London with a dissertation on Protestant political theory of the Tudor period.
Canada can end the China crisis in one simple move
Reading Time: 3 minutes Since we’re in an economic and moral conflict with China, why not do the entirely virtuous thing and withdraw our recognition of Beijing?
Climate emergency claim is cynical and dangerous
Reading Time: 3 minutes From such a hollow declaration playing to a general anxiety about the future will come ill-considered actions with real consequences
The corrosion of social norms puts us all at risk
Reading Time: 3 minutes Insisting on righteous victory at any cost is the greasy slope to violence
The abysmal scorecard of socialist revolutions
Reading Time: 4 minutes Real communism has failed repeatedly to provide better living conditions. Why do countries like Venezuela persist?
Your silence is more dangerous than any idea
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you have an opinion, speak it out loud. Form a circle to discuss or promote it. Tell the politicians who represent you
The death of forgiveness in an age of self-righteousness
Reading Time: 4 minutes Modern society doesn’t forgive. There’s no sense that a person’s life is always a mixture of light and darkness
Don’t blame academic malaise on the male ‘genius’ cult
Reading Time: 3 minutes Those teaching the humanities have abandoned attempts at outlining the grand narratives, the threads that link important events and people in art and history
Stripping religion from the public square in the name of diversity
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s universities once proudly proclaimed links to faith. But their mottos and intentions have been dangerously watered down
Why would we concern ourselves with a mix of sex, law and religion?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Supreme Court’s TWU decision shows once again that when it comes to Canadian courts, sexual rights trump religious ones