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The sun sets on Hong Kong

Aug 5, 2020

Once an enterprise Canadians went to war for, the British Empire is now in disgrace. And no wonder. It owns many sins. The Atlantic slave…

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The truth about history

Aug 4, 2020

What is historical truth? To get at the truth of history, we must know it and we must understand it, and these are two very…

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Everything isn’t racism

Aug 2, 2020

When RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki was asked if her force was systemically racist, she replied that she believed unconscious bias existed in the force but…

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An Optimist No More

Jun 5, 2020

I am a very lucky human being. I was born into the greatest period for a member of Homo sapiens to be alive, the peak…

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An Honourable Executive

May 22, 2020

Amazon is a corporation famous for a number of things: revolutionizing retail, making its founder and CEO the world's richest man, and creating workplaces that…

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