Bring on the culture wars
Culture wars aren’t a political sideshow, they are the essence of politics, which is defining the community and establishing a shared identity. To whom does a society raise statues, and whose statues do we tear down?
Culture wars aren’t a political sideshow, they are the essence of politics, which is defining the community and establishing a shared identity. To whom does a society raise statues, and whose statues do we tear down?
In order to seek out and understand other intelligent life in the universe, our civilization needs to up its game to define a better future.
Canada’s courts have not become as politicized as those in the United States. But suggestions that their decisions should be ignored are alarming and bring us further in an American direction.
For all of the discussion of Canada’s founders as highly pragmatic, we underestimate their collective boldness as the crucial ingredient in such an exercise of nation-building.
The political left believed all humans were born good and made bad by society and conservatives held that all people were born in sin, and it took the strictures of society to save our souls. That trope has now been put on its head.
The government stepped up to create health care capacity to fight COVID-19. And though that was completely necessary, it has led to a severe surgical and diagnostic backlog in a system that was already under strain.
If we believe that the identity politics of the elite focuses too often on gender and race at the expense of income and class, then why not call for a more intersectional conception of justice?
In this Hub Dialogue, part of our new policy in action series, The Hub’s editor-at-large Sean Speer speaks to Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, the member of parliament for the riding of Beaches-East York in Toronto.
Cannabis legalization has worked out well in this country for several reasons—not least of which is the fact that Canadians were ready for it.
For decades Canada was a spectator to the world’s biggest game, and its best players forced to play in exile. But this is changing.
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