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The Folly of “PPP”

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:October 27, 2016
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What follows is my contribution to a recent email discussion of “free speech” with a handful of close friends. It began with one of our group deploring the fact that Professor Jordan Peterson, who teaches psychology at the University of…

The Radical Camel’s Nose is Under the Conservative Tent!

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:July 12, 2016
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This is a clarion call regarding Canada’s deVeber Institute for Bioethics and Social Research – an organization that has been busy since 1982 defending the sanctity of human life from conception, critiquing sex-ed programs, and which most recently has launched…

The Role of a Senate, Democracy, and “Filtration”

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:June 15, 2016
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This is a response to a column in the National Post, June 9th., about democracy and the Senate of Canada. But the underlying argument could as well apply to the proper role of a Senate, as originally conceived, in any…

What Does It Mean To Be A Conservative?

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:April 14, 2016
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This is a slightly-edited transcript of a brief speech I gave to the Conservative Party of Canada, in Oshawa Ontario, January 31, 2016. **********************…

Are We Getting the Truth?

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:December 22, 2015
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Questions about the veracity of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Report on our Indian Residential Schools, and the meaning of the published death-rates in those schools, first arose when my colleague Rod Clifton, who worked for a year and a half…

Entrevue avec le Hill Times d’Ottawa, sur The Great Divide

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:December 11, 2015
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Below is a translation, by Richard Bastien, of my Interview of April 27th with Kate Malloy, of The Hill Times newspper, Ottawa, on April 27th., 2015. ****************************************…

Thoughts on Islamism and Paris

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:November 25, 2015
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Time to write a little on this topic. Visitors to this site may recall the piece posted here, “It’s a War of the Gods,” after the Charlie Hebdo murders last winter.…

TVO Interview on The Great Divide

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:November 12, 2015
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Just over a week ago, TVO ran my interview with Steve Paikin, on The Great Divide. It is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1V9E7wNoaY…

Trudeau: Like Father, Like Son

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:October 30, 2015
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Well, I have finally got up off the floor after the election, and many readers have asked me to write a little something about what happened. And I will. Soon. But first, I want to review just a little of…

The Meaning of Marriage

Post author:William Gairdner
Post published:October 2, 2015
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Our youngest of five children will be married tomorrow, and it will be a moving time for our family. We have had quite a bit of discussion about the meaning of marriage, and the assaults upon that meaning, and this…