http://policystudies.caNew at the Canadian Centre for Policy Studiesenhttp://policystudies.cahttp://policystudies.ca/images/M_images/rss.pngNew at the Canadian Centre for Policy StudiesSat, 14 Nov 2009 16:22:22 PSTFeedCreator 1.7.2http://policystudies.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=227&Itemid=27Commentary - Law and OrderFri, 30 Oct 2009 05:05:25 PDTHere we go again. In an effort to have Canada’s anti-solicitation laws declared unconstitutional, so-called “sex trade workers” and their supporters – what I call the prostitution lobby – are trying to convince us that the law as it stands now places them in serious, if not mortal jeopardy. It’s...http://policystudies.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=226&Itemid=27Commentary - Democratic ReformFri, 18 Sep 2009 01:22:28 PDT“Three months is a lifetime in politics,” Barack Obama said at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. If that’s the case, several lifetimes have passed since Stephen Harper lamented, also in 2004, that “the Upper House remains a dumping ground for the favoured cronies of the Prime Minister.” At...http://policystudies.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=225&Itemid=27Commentary - PoliticsThu, 10 Sep 2009 04:39:02 PDTOne of my all-time favourite quotes comes from the American author Alan Bloom, who once observed that “the most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities”. The wisdom of this is obvious, which is...http://policystudies.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=223&Itemid=27Commentary - Religion and SocietySun, 09 Aug 2009 08:25:26 PDTThroughout the 19th century, theories abounded in the English-speaking world about the relativism of human knowledge and, therefore, the difficulty in establishing moral standards. John Stuart Mill, notably, reduced the idea of morality to a form of subjective ideal. In the early 20th century,...