An important independent Scientific and Technical Commission on the Recognition of Academic Freedom in the University Environment is currently underway (Quebec Ministry of Education). Its report is expected this fall. Freedom of expression is a…
Flowing from the Enlightenment humanism recognizes human agency in the development of knowledge about reality. Such knowledge is separate from that which is said to be divinely given and takes into account subjectivities. In this…
In this article a chemist defends science from “political correctness” and “cancel culture” from people claiming to be in favour of social justice. She draws parallels between her history of becoming a scientist in the…
Here is a petition started by the father of a boy who was refused summer classes by the Ontario Ministry of Education because of his race: http://chng.it/7swDWgQmdn
In 2001 the United States toppled a brutal Medieval Islamist government in Afghanistan vowing to replace it with a modern democratic state that respected human rights. Continuing a policy of reconciliation with the ousted Taliban…
In this excellent episode of The Godless Spellchecker podcast, Stephen Knight interviews an anti-woke feminist on her new book explaining what is going on with and what is particularly pernicious about the self-contradictory woke dogma…
Maud Maron could be the poster-example of a passionate progressive legal aid lawyer working to keep poor and mainly oppressed minority people out of jail. Nevertheless, because of her disagreement with Wokoharam’s demands for harmful…
NOURISHING THE BREEDING GROUND OF POLITICAL ISLAM? NADIA EL-MABROUK, TAREK FATAH AND YASMINE MOHAMMED RESPECTIVELY AUTHOR OF NOTRE LAÏCITÉ, JOURNALIST AND PRESIDENT OF FREE HEARTS FREE MINDS In preparation for the National Summit on Islamophobia,…
On October 2020, 27th, I sent this open letter to the then fresh leader of the Green Party of Canada, Annamie Paul; Chère Madame Paul, I have to make a confession. Whatever the cause I…
By Jean Delisle, Translation Professor Emeritus of the University Ottawa. The Honourable Justice Michel Bastarache, President Committee on Academic Freedom University of Ottawa Monsieur le Juge, Thank you for the opportunity to share my…
