Make Canada Polite Again
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How polite are we really?
“Racism is very subtle in Canada; the micro-aggressions, imperceptible to the perpetrator, are part of what is seen as normal life.”
How to Think and Argue Well (a crash course)
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Prelude Is social media making us simple-minded? Are we losing our capacity for critical thought? Have our education institutions let us down? I believe the answer to all of these questions is YES. I have written about these subjects before, however, in the wake of recent scenes emerging from the US: The Amy Cooper video The […]
Actually, this IS normal
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Please take everything I’m about to say as it’s intended – Tough love. For all those saying “We’ve never seen anything like this” – Yes we have, and it can get much worse. In June 2018 I published an article in which I stated: “If you take a broad look at the full history of […]
A Prediction for 2020
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It will be a year of reckoning Over the last two weeks, I participated in some online panel discussions in which the theme was “Social Media Trends for 2020”. In these, I put forward a few predictions, but the one that seemed to intrigue my fellow panelists the most was that 2020 will be a […]