Reading Time: 3 minutes Terms such as physician assisted dying or assisted suicide make lies sound truthful and murder respectable
Tag: Propaganda
How politicians manipulate our decision making
Reading Time: 3 minutes The recent federal election offered us a lesson on how the manipulation of a narrative can have dramatic impact on how we think and behave
Myths and misinformation fog climate change debate
Reading Time: 4 minutes The answers to some questions to help you assess whether there really is a climate emergency
Federal government challenges the independence of Canadian media
Reading Time: 3 minutes The proposal to give $595 million in federal funding over five years to Canadian media organizations comes with significant strings attached
Reasoned skepticism about climate change is healthy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Let’s not deal with the grim science of cynical political marketing and hyperbole. Instead, we should rigorously adjudicate all belief
We need not fear the voices of our children
Reading Time: 3 minutes When youth take a political stand, it’s inspiring. History is full of such amazing and courageous young people
Blowing up climate change
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s hard to imagine a doomsday scenario with higher stakes, more exaggeration and greater calls for government intervention. It’s just moral panic
The great pipeline debate has degenerated
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need a way to drill down to the science and legality related to Trans Mountain. We need to replace cacophony with compromise
Vancouver mayor’s pipe dreams and twisted perspectives
Reading Time: 3 minutes Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson’s attacks on Trans Mountain pipeline based on falsehoods and nonsensical enviro-rhetoric
Entertainment as diversity propaganda
Reading Time: 4 minutes Television has taken it upon itself to correct social wrongs. But it doesn’t fairly represent the mosaic of our society