Our Canadian Journey

Elevator Chat: Episode 19 - Symbiosis Among Parasites

The symbiotic relationship between activists and the political class creates a force that acts as a parasite on the body of the broader society.

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Elevator Chat: Episode 18 - ’15 Minute Cities’ & NIMBY-ism

In yet another instance of the ‘horseshoe theory’, Pierre Poilievre’s idea of creating dense housing around transit stations falls afoul of two diametrically opposed groups.

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Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my listeners & readers. I do not believe in a Paywall model, so will not make access to my content subject to a payment.

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Elevator Chat: Episode 17 - Canada’s Mental Block On Immigration

The dogmatic opinions around immigration are so deeply entrenched in many sections of Canada that no amount of evidence to the contrary suffices to shake them.

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Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my listeners & readers. I do not believe in a Paywall model, so will not make access to my content subject to a payment.

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Image Credit: ‘Vintage Car on a Field’. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection, from rawpixel.com; the image is at this link. I have cropped the image to fit the space here. Used without any other modification under Creative Commons Licence.

Elevator Chat: Episode 16 – Canada’s Complicated Relationship With Addiction

As a first-generation immigrant, I am unable to decipher whether policy in Canada is aimed at reducing the incidence of addiction or to fuel the habit in an enthusiastic manner.

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Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my listeners & readers. I do not believe in a Paywall model, so will not make access to my content subject to a payment.

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Image Credit: ‘Vintage Car on a Field’. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection, from rawpixel.com; the image is at this link. I have cropped the image to fit the space here. Used without any other modification under Creative Commons Licence.

Elevator Chat: Episode 15 - DEI, The Not-so-smiling Assassin

By treating a set of ideas as unchallengeable, and the people who challenge them as evil, DEI is killing the future of Canada's children, and thence, the future of Canada.

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Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my listeners & readers. I do not believe in a Paywall model, so will not make access to my content subject to a payment.

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Elevator Chat: Episode 14 - Gender Rights & Age Of Consent

For all the furor around children’s right to identify as LGBTQ, not much debate has happened on exactly WHEN the children are to be considered mature enough to engage in certain identity-related actions.

Link to my referenced tweet: https://twitter.com/TheophanesRex/status/1680384301223796736

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Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my listeners & readers. I do not believe in a Paywall model, so will not make access to my content subject to a payment.

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Image Credit: ‘Vintage Car on a Field’. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection, from rawpixel.com; the image is at this link. I have cropped the image to fit the space here. Used without any other modification under Creative Commons Licence.

 

Int’l Student Policy - A Complete Mess

The functioning of our policy on international student visa is so rife with wrongdoing at multiple points that expecting good outcomes from it would be naïve in the extreme. We need a total revamp of this policy.

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Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my listeners & readers. I do not believe in a Paywall model, so will not make access to my content subject to a payment.

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Elevator Chat: Episode 13 - The Immigration Trap

Contrary to the widespread belief that we need immigration because of our low birth rate and/or ‘labour shortages’, the reality is that immigration itself creates the need for more immigration.

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Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my listeners & readers. I do not believe in a Paywall model, so will not make access to my content subject to a payment.

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Image Credit: ‘Vintage Car on a Field’. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection, from rawpixel.com; the image is at this link. I have cropped the image to fit the space here. Used without any other modification under Creative Commons Licence.

Elevator Chat: Episode 12 - Official Misinformation

For all the chatter about 'misinformation', the kind that originates from official sources is never in focus. If we are to get a handle on this issue, we will need to tackle this part first.

 

Links to the news stories referred in this episode:

CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/smith-cbc-stories-coutts-1.6898287

CTV: https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/for-the-third-time-this-week-earth-sets-an-unofficial-heat-record-1.6470618?cid=sm%3Atrueanthem%3A%7B%7Bcampaignname%7D%7D%3Atwitterpost%E2%80%8B&taid=64a7f4ee9a855900012b8b69&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

National Post: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/new-canadians-more-religious-than-their-natural-born-counterparts-study

 

 

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Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my listeners & readers. I do not believe in a Paywall model, so will not make access to my content subject to a payment.

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Elevator Chat: Episode 11 - The Unexplored Parts Of Bill C-18

The unexplored part of Bill C-18 is this: If the tech companies were ‘stealing’ the content of news publishers, why wasn’t anyone charged for this ‘theft’? And why can’t legacy media increase subscription revenues?

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Independent voices are more important than ever in today’s Canada. I am happy to add my voice to the public discussions on current issues & policy, and grateful for all the encouraging response from my listeners & readers. I do not believe in a Paywall model, so will not make access to my content subject to a payment.

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