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 “new green deal”. After all, what better time to contemplate striking off into a totally new direction than in the midst of an economy-crushing pandemic! At the time of penning this update, it was not known whether or no

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 those of his former campaign manager. He is defending not just himself but his family as well as they have also been named by the suit. He is fighting deep pockets and could use some help. C3RF will be following this case

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 institutions, with stealth but determination, by the cultural Marxists and their successful promulgation of “critical race theory.” The madness that many thought was limited to university campuses has spread throughout soci

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 that sees post-modern ideologies attacking the rational world. It was bad enough that the humanities had been taken over by post-modern educators, now we see these same mentors attacking the prize that is the Western sci

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 must come to the conclusion that it is objective reality that is at stake along with the common person’s ability to both recognize and deal with it. After all and as Patrice notes, even the most maleficent regimes known t

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 new Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, needs to be “green” in nature and must be entered into at the earliest opportunity. So critical is its initiation that time cannot be wasted on a cost/ benefit analysis let alone a