Lockdowns didn’t work; they simply crippled our economy
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Quarantining the healthy, while failing to properly protect the most vulnerable, never made sense
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Tag: Abuse of power
Canada’s divorce system discriminates against men
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This injustice will be difficult to overturn. While women are viewed as victimized minorities, men are not – regardless of evidence
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Governor general: an anachronism who can save democracy
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The role of the governor general is often ceremonial and mostly symbolic, but it can still mean something very important
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Covid-19 and our forgotten freedoms of assembly and association
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It is in emergencies that we see whether our deepest societal values mean anything
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Pandemic exposes weaknesses of government intervention
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Governments boasted of having “Canadians backs” while failing to provide basic health services, rapid testing, comprehensive tracing, and the timely roll-out of vaccinations
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What happens when a hospice rejects medical assistance in dying?
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‘This is about the B.C. government destroying a sanctuary for dying patients who want the choice to stay in a facility where MAID is not offered’
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Sun-soaked vacations show why Albertans need recall legislation
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Albertans have every right to hate the hypocrisy coming from United Conservative Party
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Thankfully 2020 is over, but we’re not out of the woods yet
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There’s that little matter of actually rolling out the vaccines on a much wider scale in Canada
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Our biggest COVID-19 problem is undue panic
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The time has come to stop obsessing about the number of cases, even if they’re rising. Cases don’t equal hospitalizations and they don’t equal deaths
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Trudeau government dodges democratic accountability
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It’s hard not to interpret the federal government’s ongoing refusal to deliver a full budget as yet another example of avoiding accountability
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“Medical assistance in dying” worries many Canadians
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A UN report is critical of Canada’s poor MAID safeguards for people with disabilities and their lack of access to viable MAID alternatives
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The war on drugs is costly and off-target
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A report on drug abuse released by police chiefs is less about reducing drug abuse and more about protecting police budgets and jobs
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