Remarque! La version française suit un peu plus bas Note! May is C3RF Funding Drive month - see notice below! Note! C3RF is in need of a volunteer English-French translator for the “update”. Please contact r.cooper@canadiancitizens.org if interested in helping out. The democracy-despotism spectrum Last week’s update noted that Friedrich Hayek, writing as WWII raged, plotted the road from Western liberal democracy to despotism and, ultimately, serfdom. He observed that free me

Remarque! La version française suit un peu plus bas Note! C3RF is in need of a volunteer English-French translator for the “update”. Please contact r.cooper@canadiancitizens.org if interested in helping out. Wartime leadership Prime Minister Trudeau is fond of conflating the Wuhan virus predicament with the nation’s life and death struggle against totalitarianism and fascism during WWII. He notes that the country is in the midst of its “most significant civic mobilization” si

Remarque! La version française suit un peu plus bas Note! C3RF is in need of a volunteer English-French translator for the “update”. Please contact r.cooper@canadiancitizens.org if interested in helping out. Death spiral Well-trained pilots have a healthy respect for the in-flight phenomena known as the death or graveyard spiral. The hazard is normally associated with in-cloud conditions under what is known as Instrument Flight Rules (IFR). The death spiral can come about if

Remarque! La version française suit un peu plus bas Note! C3RF is in need of a volunteer English-French translator for the “update”. Please contact r.cooper@canadiancitizens.org if interested in helping out. Read! A Canadian cleric speaks out on biased, unCanadian 'Conversion Therapy' legislation A practising Canadian cleric asks “where is the justice” when it comes to Senate Bill S-202 and House of Commons Bill C-8 (conversion therapy). These two pieces of legislation track

Editor’s Note: A practising Canadian cleric asks “where is the justice” when it comes to Senate Bill S-202 and House of Commons Bill C-8 (conversion therapy). These two pieces of legislation track each other in forbidding therapies that move an individual away from unwanted, non-traditional sexual orientations and identities while promoting those that move children towards them. In doing so the good Reverend asks many good questions and makes many good observations. The Rever

Remarque! La version française suit un peu plus bas Note! Sign petition and say “NO” to Bills S-202 and C-8 (Conversion Therapy) This issue is flying under the radar screen due to the attention being paid to the Wuhan virus crisis. Nevertheless, it represents a major attack by government forces on the freedom of individual Canadians to live their lives in accordance with their own beliefs and for parents to protect their children from malformed, unsubstantiated and dangerous