by Patrick Moreau, Le Devoir, Friday July 28th, 2023 Rights and privileges should not be confused. Rights, in particular “human rights”, are freedoms granted to all citizens of Quebec and Canada; these shared rights are a fundamental condition of the equality that must reign among citizens in a democracy. A privilege, on the other hand, […]
By Jean-François Lisée Le Devoir, January 4th, 2023 I have read many political programmes in my life and helped to write some of them. However, I had never come across a sentence like this: “We agree to disagree: our opponents are not our enemies.“ Nor had I come across any variation of the following statement: […]
One of our members received the following letter from Leslyn Lewis and thought the ideas would be worth discussing on this forum. Are Leslie’s ideas as presented here compatible with humanism? Dear Gleb, Are you a person of faith? Or are you a person of science? Or maybe like me, you feel like those words […]
DAPHNÉE DION-VIENS, Le Journal de Montréal Wednesday, June 29, 2022, UPDATE Wednesday, 29 June 2022 The content of the new Quebec Culture and Citizenship course, which will replace the controversial Ethics and Religious Culture course (ECR), is taking shape. The provisional high school program, a copy of which was obtained by Le Journal de Montréal, […]
By Sam Haroun, writer Le Devoir, May 31, 2022 They call themselves liberals, but they have an elastic idea of liberalism when it comes to freedom of religion, as if freedom of conscience, the matrix of all freedoms, is exercised differently depending on its field of application: freedom of expression, assembly, demonstration, etc., are subject […]
Shortly after the story of the cancellation by the Royal Academy of embroiderer Jess De Wahls for the “crime” of disagreeing with the trans-bully demand that everyone acknowledge that a trans-woman is a woman, no questions allowed to be asked (see below for the full story), the Royal Academy got so much push back that […]