In January 2020, as information began to emerge regarding the novel coronavirus, many experts and public voices (at least those quoted in media articles at the time) appeared to be skeptical of China’s dictatorial response to the new respiratory illness. One CTV...
Barry W. Bussey When Prime Minister Pierre E. Trudeau was questioned by a reporter as to how far he would go with the War Measures Act in 1970, he retorted, “Just watch me!” Canada was in a full-blown terrorist crisis brought on by the Front de libération du...
Who would have thought that jerry cans would become Canada’s newest symbols of freedom? Hundreds of pro-trucker demonstrators in Ottawa have presented Canadian history with a new way of looking at freedom: the red gasoline cans and yellow diesel cans. This...
Barry W. Bussey The ongoing dispute in Ottawa and around the country over the COVID-19 mandates got me thinking about a book in my library by Dudley Weeks: The Eight Essential Steps to Conflict Resolution.[1] I thought maybe, just maybe, there would be something there...
Over the course of the pandemic, Canadians have become so conditioned by repeated warnings from our health officials that, unless we look back, it can be difficult to recall what life was like before COVID-19 arrived on the scene. Many Canadians have become convinced...
Barry W. Bussey I spent some time in Ottawa last weekend to experience history in the making. The “Freedom 2022” Trucker Convoy to Ottawa must be among the most massive spontaneous protest that this country has ever seen. When I asked two members of the police if they...
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