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Monthly Archives: July 2018
Shared Community is Failing: Blame Populism
Global news has a new commentary: With populism on the rise, are we losing our shared community? I’d argue that rather than populism being the cause of the loss of societal cohesion in Canada, it’s a symptom of it. The … Continue reading
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Tagged charity, chrystia freeland, empathy, populism, shared values, social cohesion
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Mansplaining Why Feminists are Sexist
The BBC has a new article that claims to femsplain their sexist term “mansplaining” in one chart. I’m going explain why telling men to stop mansplaining is counterproductive. Two male colleagues recently asked me, unprompted, “How do I know if … Continue reading
Vice Smears Men’s Rights Activists
Vice has an article on the Men’s Rights movement titled What I Heard at This Weekend’s Men’s Rights Conference in London. Unsurprisingly, it’s a hit piece. While author Robert Jackman may have heard, his open bias shows he did not … Continue reading
Review of “Upgrade” (mild spoilers)
* * C Upgrade is a fun science fiction action movie. The plot is fairly standard revenge material, reminiscent of Deathwish. The science fiction twist is that the hero, Grey Trace (Logan Marshall-Green), is implanted with a chip that allows … Continue reading
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Tagged logan marshall-green, movie review, science fiction, upgrade
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MacLean’s Doubles Down on Identity Politics
MacLean’s makes me feel better about my tax money being used to fund the CBC. Last year, they were promoting the opinion that We don’t need less identity politics—we need more. Opinion: We need to tackle all our different challenges, … Continue reading
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Tagged alt right, bernie sanders, charlottesville, identity politics, james damore, socialism, steve bannon
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Fair Weather Free Speech Advocacy
The progressive movement continues to turn its weapons upon itself. This time, Facebook BLOCKS links to women’s rights group after ‘transphobia’ complaints. Woman’s Place UK campaigns for women-only spaces and raises concerns about transgender people being able to self-identify as … Continue reading
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey is a classic. It is simply written, full of principles, and yet practical and applicable. In the book, Covey describes three principles for personal living, three principles for relationships, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 7 habits of highly effective people, initiative, prioritization, synergy
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