In September 2008, after years of pre-planning by elites without public consultation, Quebec's Ministry of Education established a province-wide, compulsory pedagogical program called Ethiq...
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“The pathology of the Right is a hard heart; the pathology of the Left is a soft head"
- Alan Borovoy
Founder of, and General Counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association 1969 - 2009...
"When all is said and done there are just four institutions through which human beings imbue their lives with meaning: vocation, family, community and faith."
- Charles Murray, American Ente...
"The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society.
The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself...
“Any country that has tried to create a political solution to human problems has ended up with concentration camps and gulags"
- Erin Pizzey...
“man's major foe is deep within him. But the enemy is no longer the same. Formerly it was ignorance. Today it is falsehood."
Jean-Francois Revel
The flight from truth....
“The problem with Socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money"
- Margaret Thatcher...
“Boredom is bliss viewed from the shores of pleasure"
- Roland Barthes
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“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.”
- Ayn Rand ...
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution."
- Clay Shirky
Internet guru...
"A point of view is one's particular angle on the world, one's ways of viewing life that implies a well-considered position on a range of much larger questions than that of the reform of Social Securi...
“There are three infallible signs of the 'crank'...The first is that he has a theory about the Jews. The second is that he has a theory about money. And the third is that he has a theory about Shake...
"[Liberalism] is an ethos that aims simultaneously at political and social collectivism on the one hand, and moral anarchy on the other.
It cannot win, but it can make us all losers."
by I...
"Mankind can never get rid of the need for religious self-identification:
who am I, where did I come from, where do I fit in, why am I responsible, what does my life mean? how will I face death? ...
“How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure."
- Samuel Johnson...
"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than for other people"
- Thomas Mann
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An attendee at an academic conference a few years ago was in conversation with a woman who happened to mention a book called Fat is a Feminist Issue. He starts to say, “Can you give me an example......
[This article is reprinted from the National Post]
In 1968, naive anti-establishment American and Canadian students considered themselves courageous for locking supine university presidents i...
There is one subject no writer in the world, even the most talented and eclectic, would hope to have as a book project, and that is the death of his own child.
A Cracking of the Heart by f...
There is one subject no writer in the world, not even the most talented and eclectic, would hope to have as a book project: the death of his own child. Trouble is, when a child dies, a talented wr...