As for the already vaccinated, making boosters mandatory would abandon any pretence of persuasion.

COVID-19 is here to stay. Therefore, COVID is done. Either mild Omicron is the end of COVID madness, or there is no off-ramp. The panic-demic must finish or we will be doing this forever.

There are still people who value civil liberties in this country.

Wokeness, or social justice as it is also known, is an anti-Western ideology and is now Canada’s secular religion.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children—or in this case, what it does to them. ~ German pastor and anti-Nazi dissident, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Western legal tradition has protected individual autonomy better than any other legal system in history. The problem is that for decades that tradition, and the culture from whence it came, have slowly been eroding.

In Canada, some are apt to believe that vaccine mandates surely must contravene the charter. But has a specific charter right been breached? Or is it just the charter’s vibe?

Judges lack training in everything but the law, which is not their weakness but their strength. On COVID, as on any other contentious subject, a little learning outside the courtroom is exactly what should not occur.

Left-leaning academics once championed ideological diversity. Now that they have captured the university, viewpoint diversity is perceived as dangerous.

Western liberal democracies, especially Canada, have descended into authoritarianism. COVID appears to be the reason, but this transformation has long been underway.

The Cold War wasn’t merely a conflict between nations but also a contest between competing political ideologies. And this time, the socialists are winning.

Kooky academic theories are among the biggest threats to freedom, prosperity and rationality.

The rule of law gets in the way of governments and officials crafting solutions to problems they perceive as important. That is not its downside but its purpose.