Our Canadian Journey

Elevator Chat: Episode 10 - Paved With Good Intentions

The mess at Tomken Road Public School in Mississauga shows how overzealous enforcement of ideological imperatives usually harms the very same people that they are supposed to benefit.

Link to National Post piece: https://nationalpost.com/feature/a-toronto-area-middle-school-is-in-crisis-administrators-pin-the-blame-on-teachers

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Elevator Chat: Episode 9- The Revealing Blunder Of Bill C-18

With Meta deciding not to share links to Canadian news sites, the Trudeau government finally discovers the limits of its authority. How we reached this point is as important as where we are.

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Elevator Chat: Episode 8 - Unmarked Graves & ’Denialism’

Many of the Indigenous issues in Canada are located on thin ice, but Justice Minister Lametti’s public musings about criminalizing ‘residential school denialism’ need to be discussed in a frank 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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Elevator Chat: Episode 7 - Illegal Migrants & The Charter

Any country’s Constitution is at the very foundation of that country’s social contract, but in Canada’s case, the interpretation of the Constitution keeps shifting, depending on political exigencies. This makes our social contract unclear.

Links:

Supreme Court Decision:

https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/19957/index.do

McGill Law Journal:

 https://lawjournal.mcgill.ca/article/how-the-charter-has-failed-non-citizens-in-canada-reviewing-thirty-years-of-supreme-court-of-canada-jurisprudence/

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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: Ep. 6 - Is it the weather or climate?

A leading media pundit recently conceded that the recent wildfires were not necessarily caused by climate change, but then went on to make the bold claim that wildfires are a ‘climatological event’.

Let us explore what the term 'climatological event' means, and whether its use in this case was justified or not.

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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 5 - Revisiting ’Mandatory MAiD’

My episode about the *stage play* in Calgary that explores whether MAiD should be made mandatory for those over 85 years of age generated much feedback. The people who disagreed with my take have helped me to refine my argument.

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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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Episode 13: Death By Decree

A group floating the shocking idea as to whether Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) should be made mandatory for people over the age of 85 shows that Canada is now teetering on the edge of end-stage socialism.

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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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Music Credits:

• Intro & Outro: Excerpts from the theme music of Hindi movie ‘Sholay’, composed by Rahul Dev Burman. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evneWVJF9eU&ab_channel=digeshdarji. Used under Fair Use Policy; I do not own any rights to this music.

Elevator Chat: Episode 4 - Bill S-243 & ’Conspiracy theories’

Media’s lack of reporting and commentary on important issues & developments creates an information-vacuum, which people must fill using their imagination. What results may be wrongly derided as a ‘conspiracy theory’.

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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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Corporate wokery & pseudo-intellectualism

Corporations jumping on the 'progressive' bandwagon often propagate ideas that are pseudo-intellectual & even unscientific. We can only speculate why they are doing this, but we know the impact of these messages.

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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.

To help me bring more content to you, please consider donating a small amount via this PayPal link on my website: https://darshanmaharaja.ca/donate/

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Elevator Chat: Episode 2 - One cause of vandalism by students

It is natural for the young to be boisterous. But the cause behind many acts of destruction by students today is not age, but rather an imbalance in their 'academic diet'; ideological pursuits are prioritized over academic achievement.

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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.