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- How a private-sector CEO thinks.
- LGBT asylum seekers, quotas and open immigration.
- Death and the Captain
- A brief letter on a facial beauty.
- An Open Letter to a Teacher: Listening can go both ways
- Life is Beautiful: A Letter to a Drunk Mind
- Democratic government and its approach to individual rights
- Public services: how should we pay for them?
- A letter on Haaretz, and the perspective we must take on Israel.
- Neoliberalism: The Misunderstood Ideology (assuming it exists).
- The problems of immortality and the value of death.
- Liberalism and Primitivism: Choice, or the natural and primitive life?
- Eye on the News: Surveys and Lingusitic Barriers
- Drugs: paternalistic government or absolute self-ownership?
- An Analysis of William Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections Of Early Childhood”
The dear old Queen of Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and so many other countries: just what is she good for? Though, in my experience, few people care about her either way, there are those who see in the monarchy a powerful symbol. That is, a powerful symbol of injustice, of oppression, of an archaic system that goes against the very foundations of democracy and liberty. Or of stability, culture and history; an important part of who we are, of the Canadian identity.
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Posted on: 20th of May 2009 in Ideas | | Comments (0)