Original image by Cezary p at pl.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8305204 There Are Books that Should Be Banned Before you go all Freedom of Expression on me, think about it. None of the freedoms that we cherish are universal or omnipotent. There are always instances where people simply can’t be allowed to say certain things…
Month: September 2022
Politics
Abolish the Monarchy? No Need
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Okay, I was holding off the inevitable discussion about abolishing the monarchy, out of respect for the most popular monarch of the past century. However, the news media have jumped the gun by a couple of days, so I don’t feel too bad about raising the topic, especially since I’m not attacking the system in…
Politics
Pierre Poilievre: A Nasty Echo from the South
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Photo courtesy of CBC Canada’s conservatives showed themselves half a step behind America’s spiral into populism with the selection of Pierre Poilievre as leader, a man whose main talent is for figuring out what everybody wants to hear and promising it to them, whether it’s possible or not. When Poilievre started his acceptance speech with,…
Social Commentary
Lean and Mean Employers in the Post-COVID Age
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There is a very successful businessman in British Columbia, and the story goes that at his car dealership every month he fired the salesman with the lowest sales. He rationalized that he was doing that person a favour; if they weren’t suited to the job, the sooner they found out, the better for both employee…