Many go to the movies preferring to watch certain styles of films in order to be taken away from the realities of their every day lives. For two hours they are entertained, whisked away to lands far, far away, they laugh, they cry, they jump out of their seats in excitements or they hide under…
Category: Legal/Law
There is Hope – A New Wave of Dissidents
The above popular rock song immediately shot to popularity upon its release. It’s a song that bring solidarity, a song to sing to ready the troops and do battle, a song to inspire individuals to band together to right some wrongs, a song to stand up to authoritarian figures when you are ready to put…
Moving towards a Bipolar World
An Essay Have you visited Huawei’s website? I have. While I was thumbing through its digital pages, I realized how much our world seems to be shrinking. Smart cities, the internet, the internet of things, neural networks around the globe in which we call earth is turning into one big ball of yarn threaded by…
Modern Humanism – Our Voice (Part II)
Go to: Modern Humanism – Part I In a Toronto Star article, Oprah Winfrey talks about income inequality and why she left 60 Minutes by relating an experience early in her career. “In the late ’70s and ’80s, she said, “back when I was doing the news in Baltimore, I asked to make the same…
Bell Let’s Talk Mental Health IoT and Privacy – Part IV
Go To: Bell Let’s Talk: Mental Health – Part I, Part II – The Internet, Part III – Internet of Things When you think about privacy and solitude or confinement, it usually means that you are alone – by yourself. In speaking about activities you’d like to perform by yourself, and in the context of…
Bell, Let’s Talk – Mental Health and the Internet of Things (Part III)
Go to: Bell Let’s Talk: Mental Health- Part I, Part II – The Internet, Part IV – Privacy So far we’ve observed how Alexander Graham Bell’s inventions revolutionized our world first through his invention of the telephone enabling us to communicate to individuals and loved ones far and wide. It brought people of distance closer…
Untie the Strong Woman!!! (Pt1)
Go To: Untie the Strong Woman!! – Part II Author: Clarissa Pinkola Estes Ph.D , Publisher: Sounds True, 2013, Paperback : 392 pages, ISBN-10 : 1622030729, ISBN-13 : 978-1622030729 International Women’s Day 2018 The International Women’s Day website informs its readers; “With the World Economic Forum’s 2017 Global Gender Gap Report findings telling us that gender parity is over…
Pillars of Democracy – Freedom
How important is privacy to you? I know a strange question to ask, especially living and a free and democratic society, such as Canada, where we enjoy a considerable amount of privacy thanks to our laws namely our Charter. So let me ask you another question; how important is freedom to you? Yes, another strange…
Pillars of Democracy – Justice
Celebrations and Milestones March 17, 2017 – Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin received the first-ever Simone de Beauvoir Institute Prize and delivered a lecture on the importance of the courts in Canadian democracy as part of the Social Science Research workshop series at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec . In receiving her Prize she made a…
The Law of Consent – Indigenous
“Everyone has the right to live in dignity and safety to maintain and practice their identity and culture. Under international human rights law, states are obligated to do everything they can to ensure that rights essential to individual and collective well-being, such as the rights to education, health, livelihood, and the right to live…
