Remarque! La version française suit un peu plus bas Thanks A heartfelt thank you to all who participated in the “political reset” letter-writing campaign. Recall that it was initiated in opposition to the disastrous “economic reset” that was portended to be part and parcel of the Liberal government’s Throne Speech of 23 September 2020. The “reset” intended to take Canada down the path of centralized planning away from our successful free market economy – all in the name of a

Remarque! La version française suit un peu plus bas Note! “Throne Speech” letter-writing campaign samples below Consider! The case of free speech warrior Daniel Bordman The deposition phase of Daniel Bordman’s alleged defamation case began in earnest this past week. Recall that he finds himself on the wrong side of Erin O’Toole’s CPC leadership campaign and is being taken to task for criticizing the new Leader of the Opposition’s connections – connections as they relate to th

Editor’s Note: In this article, Professor Emeritus Salim Mansur answers the question, “How in the world did we ever get here?” How did our freedom of speech get choked off and replaced by “cancel culture”? Why do the authorities for the most part stand down when mobs of “social justice warriors” shut down speakers and events they disagree with? And this not only in Canada but also in the United States, despite its robust First Amendment. The reason is the takeover of our ins

Remarque! La version française suit un peu plus bas Note! “Political reset” letter-writing campaign challenge below Consider! The case of free speech warrior Daniel Bordman The subversion of the Scientific Method In the 21 August 2020 C3RF Update we discussed a short paper by Patrice Nishikawa, a professor of accelerator physics in Tsukuba, Japan. Patrice was very concerned that the hard sciences, and the scientific method in particular, had become a new battlefield in a war

Remarque! La version française suit un peu plus bas Editor’s note: In this companion-piece to his C3RF article “an Open Letter to Premiers Legault and Ford on the ‘decolonization’ of light” from 16 August 2020, Patrice Nishikawa moves on from the postmodern subversion of the scientific method to its related and much more dangerous attack on free speech. He asserts that it matters not whether you come from the left, the centre or the right, if you are a reasonable person you m

Remarque! La version française suit un peu plus bas Consider! The case of free speech warrior Daniel Bordman Of “resets” and secrecy Last week’s update drew attention to the Canadian federal government’s cynical plans to effect a massive economic “reset” of the national economy. This “reset” is leveraged by the worldwide Wuhan virus crisis and follows a similar call for related global measures by none other than the World Economic Forum (WEF). The “reset”, according to our ne