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A Culture From Tyranny to Freedom: A Cultural Compass (Part 2)
As seen in The Epoch Times Part 1 can be read here. “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” — Aristotle As a physician, I rarely discuss politics with my patients. After all, my patients are unique fellow human...
A Culture From Tyranny to Freedom: Of Green Clerics, Red Marxists, and Yellow Minions (Part 1)
As seen in The Epoch Times Part 2 can be read here. “I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.” — Galileo Galilei As a scientist, I...
Radical Environmentalism: Some Green Prescriptions Without State Authoritarianism (Part 2)
As seen in The Epoch Times “The greater the number of owners, the less respect for common property. People are much more careful of their personal possessions than of those owned communally; they exercise care over common property only in so far as they are personally...
Radical Environmentalism: To Be Green Doesn’t Require Tyranny (Part 1)
As seen in The Epoch Times “There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.” — Henry David...
To Live a Lie Is to Lose Your Freedom: Mask Mandates as a Case Study
As seen in The Epoch Times Physicians traditionally took the Hippocratic Oath. This was based upon the ancient Greek physician’s approach to bioethics. For example, Hippocrates said, “I will use those … regimens which will benefit my patients according to my greatest...
Immigration and the Citizen ‘Ship’ Are Connected: Are We a Ship of State or a Ship of Fools?
As seen in The Epoch Times We all come from somewhere. In fact, we are all either settlers or ancestors of settlers here. This goes from Canada’s earliest inhabitants whose ancestors came across the Bering Land Bridge 20,000 years previously to today’s new Canadians....
Biological Intelligence Versus Artificial Intelligence: Some Ethics for Playing With Fire
As seen in The Epoch Times What parent, relative, or friend these days has not experienced the phenomenon where face-to-face humanity has been lost due to someone being engrossed in their electronic device instead? If you are a passenger, or even a pilot, have you...
A Remedy to the Cultural Obsession of Identity Politics: True Canadian Citizenship
As seen in The Epoch Times In a letter published recently in The Epoch Times, I wrote with dismay about the imposition of critical race theory (CRT) in our Canadian military. Of course, this bigoted ideology of identity politics is not limited to just this element of...