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Shop Wisely and Live Not by Lies
A Reminder of the FDC online Zoom Event on Tuesday July 25th at 7:30 p.m. called “Rod Dreher’s Live Not By Lies. Strategic Ways to Make a Difference.”
Guest Post for FDC by Nicodemus
It won’t come as a surprise that there’s now an app for iPhone which helps consumers shop according to their ‘ideological values.’ Called Veebs and avai…
Are You a Colonialist Settler?
Words have power. Over the last few years, we have seen this proven more powerfully than at any other time in history. Not only have traditional meanings been upended and reversed, but new vocabulary has been created to shift meaning and gain political and social advantages over others. The radical left is good at this, and it has recently gained more power th…
Highly Educated Fools
Our universities have become a problem. My entire adult life has been dedicated to education, so it pains me to say this, but we need to deal with them. It is critical for the survival of Canada and the entire free world. Let me be clear. I love school. I was a Canadian high school teacher for 28 years and a college instructor in Japan for eight more, bringing my tota…
How I Learned to Love Canada
For a long time I did not like Canadian history. Ironically, I ended up teaching it. I was a Social Studies teacher and teaching history was part of my job, but I did it begrudgingly. I found Canadian history dull and, unlike some of my colleagues, had very little enthusiasm for it. Compared to European history, with its colourful narratives and “Captains and K…
What Ails the C.B.C.?
What is wrong with the C.B.C.? Once watched by most of us, it is now viewed by only a small percentage of Canadians and is propped up by federal funds to the tune of hundreds of million dollars. It is so biased that watching it has become painful. What went wrong with our national broadcaster?
Not Your Grandfather’s C.B.C.
It’s important to realize that to…
What is “Colonialism?”
Language has become a weapon. For many people this is puzzling. Isn’t language supposed to help us communicate? Shouldn’t it be clear, and an aid to understanding? Isn’t language beautiful, and hasn’t it inspired the people who came before us? Yes. All true. Language should be all these things and has been in the past, but nowadays it has been twisted into a po…