Reading Time: 3 minutes With a whole industry made up of people ready to points fingers, it is getting harder and harder to pick one
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.
Hefner, Weinstein and the tawdry, damaging world of modern sex
Reading Time: 3 minutes The personal price for satisfaction for the Playboy founder and his disciples, but extremely high for society
Is there really bias in the news media?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Don’t expect objectivity from newspaper and television news, which tend to lean left
Manitoba’s flagship university is failing students
Reading Time: 4 minutes What can be done about it?
Is justice pricing really justice or just plain hate?
Reading Time: 3 minutes This isn’t a time for Canadians to be segregating each other, or rushing to put themselves and their neighbours into hyphenated categories
Putting a muzzle on those you disagree with
Reading Time: 3 minutes Mark Kingwell is vexed by the failure of democracy to silence the speech of those he disagrees with
Statues tell a story that people need to hear
Reading Time: 3 minutes You could fill volumes with the uncomfortable statements uttered in the past by people whom we now revere, from Abraham Lincoln to Mahatma Gandhi
Cornwallis and Ryerson: heroes or villains?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Recognizing that all of us are an amalgam of good deeds and bad attitudes will save us from a ceaseless round of endless moaning about the sins of our ancestors
So long Hector-Louis Langevin: erasing a nation’s history
Reading Time: 3 minutes For the crime of being a man of his times, Canadians are being asked to wipe the memory of a Father of Confederation clean