John Carpay

Will the authoritarians prevail over science again?

John Carpay: Judging by Canadians’ overwhelming compliance with lockdowns, vaccine passports, and travel restrictions since March of 2020, it unfortunately seems that most Canadians meet authoritarianism with unquestioning obedience. University of Manitoba psychology professor Robert Altemeyer argues that those with an authoritarian personality are submissive even to authority figures who are dishonest, corrupt, and inept. They persist in their belief that their [...]

admin2023-10-12T10:08:45-04:00October 12, 2023|John Carpay, Politics, Society & Culture|

Deaths that depart from the Covid narrative

John Carpay: When statisticians speak of “excess” deaths, they speak of a higher-than-expected death rate. The number of “expected” deaths (for a country or province, for one year or some other time period) is based on the population’s age, race, employment, education, income, marriage rates, birth rates, and mortality statistics for previous periods. For example, statisticians might expect 300,000 people to die in [...]

admin2023-09-20T11:15:45-04:00September 20, 2023|John Carpay|

Preserving individual rights and freedom is the only way to prevent genocide

John Carpay: I recently had the privilege of meeting Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Vera Sharav and listening to her speak at an event in Hamilton, Ont. in June. Vera Sharav has been a thorn in the side of big pharma since her son died suddenly and unexpectedly from side effects caused by an antidepressant medication that he was taking in [...]

admin2023-08-10T09:11:27-04:00August 10, 2023|John Carpay|

Preserving individual rights and freedoms is the only way to prevent genocide

John Carpay: I recently had the privilege of meeting Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Vera Sharav and listening to her speak at an event in Hamilton, Ont. in June. Vera Sharav has been a thorn in the side of big pharma since her son died suddenly and unexpectedly from side effects caused by an antidepressant medication that he was taking in [...]

admin2023-07-28T09:56:46-04:00July 28, 2023|John Carpay|

Courage in the face of school board censorship

John Carpay: In Canada in 2023, it takes remarkable courage to state the obvious. At a public meeting of the Waterloo Region District School Board in January of 2022, a teacher raised concerns about school library books promoting transgender ideology to children. In a shocking display of blatant censorship, Waterloo school board chair Scott Piatkowski expelled Carolyn Burjoski from this public meeting, after [...]

admin2023-06-16T12:18:55-04:00June 16, 2023|John Carpay, Society & Culture|

Women and girls deserve safe spaces right now

John Carpay: The more that people possess virtues like humility, wisdom, courage, and self-control, the less that people need regulations and laws to govern their conduct. In a society where most citizens possess a high degree of virtue, people have the capacity to cooperate with each other to achieve social, economic, financial, and community goals. Virtuous people don’t need thousands of laws [...]

admin2023-05-30T12:10:21-04:00May 30, 2023|John Carpay, Society & Culture|

Censorship spreads like cancer

John Carpay: Censorship spreads like a cancer, starting small but then expanding everywhere. Once upon a time, only 15 years ago, pro-life student clubs were the only groups facing censorship on campus. Pro-life students were barred from renting rooms or other spaces on campus that were freely available to everyone else. Pro-life students were expressly prohibited from setting up recruitment tables at [...]

admin2023-04-11T09:04:15-04:00April 11, 2023|John Carpay|

Religious leaders refused to see red flags

John Carpay: Since early 2020, the majority of religious leaders around the world have supported lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccination passports, and other coercive measures that violated the freedom, prosperity, and well-being of millions of citizens. As just one prominent example, in August of 2021 Pope Francis and other bishops praised the new Covid vaccine as “safe and effective.” Vatican City pressured all [...]

admin2023-03-30T10:43:10-04:00March 30, 2023|John Carpay, Religion|

Religious leaders refused to see red flags

JOHN CARPAY: Since early 2020, the majority of religious leaders around the world have supported lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccination passports, and other coercive measures that violated the freedom, prosperity, and well-being of millions of citizens. As just one prominent example, in August of 2021 Pope Francis and other bishops praised the new Covid vaccine as “safe and effective.” Vatican City pressured all [...]

admin2023-03-09T12:17:34-05:00March 9, 2023|John Carpay, Religion|

My 23 hours in jail

John Carpay: My recent 23 hours in a Calgary jail on Dec. 30-31 remind me of the fact that our circumstances can feel either incredibly difficult or quite easy depending on what we compare them to. On the afternoon of Friday, Dec. 30, I was working at my office when I received a phone call from Calgary Police Services detective Mark Weir [...]

admin2023-02-07T13:12:40-05:00February 7, 2023|John Carpay|

Public inquiry reveals no justification for declaring national emergency

John Carpay: After six weeks of witnesses testifying under oath in October and November, the Public Order Emergency Commission process has provided Canadians with important evidence on the government’s decision to use the Emergency Act. The biggest and most glaring revelation was the absence of violence in Ottawa during the three weeks in January and February of 2022, when thousands of Canadian [...]

admin2023-01-16T13:25:35-05:00January 16, 2023|John Carpay, Politics|

An illegal and unjustified overreaction

John Carpay: Interim writer, John Carpay, Law Matters Canadians remain divided about the Freedom Convoy truckers’ protest in Ottawa in January and February of 2022. Some Canadians saw the truckers as heroes resisting unjust laws, while government-funded media portrayed thousands of peaceful protesters as a harmful nuisance at best, and as dangerous racists and violent criminals at worst. I know [...]

admin2022-11-16T13:32:57-05:00November 16, 2022|John Carpay|

Life-saving measures that kill

John Carpay: Since lockdowns were first imposed in March of 2020, Canada’s federal and provincial governments have paid little attention to the harmful effects of their policies. Instead, politicians and government-funded media repeat endlessly that “lockdowns save lives.” We know how propaganda works: when people hear a claim often enough, they come to accept it as true. Public health agencies and most [...]

admin2022-10-11T10:41:05-04:00October 11, 2022|John Carpay, Society & Culture|

Canada’s road to Beijing

John Carpay: In Nanjing, a man crosses the street while the pedestrian light is still red. Within seconds, a billboard-sized screen nearby displays his name, his face and an admonition to obey the traffic lights. The Communist Chinese government surveillance cameras have captured the moment, secured an image of the man’s face, compared it to a central database of faces compiled over [...]

admin2022-09-16T09:20:07-04:00September 16, 2022|John Carpay, Politics|

Reagan’s vision relevant today

John Carpay: Must freedom perish in a quiet, deadening accommodation with totalitarian evil? This question was asked by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in a speech he gave to the Parliament of the United Kingdom on June 8, 1982. Four decades later, Reagan’s speech is just as relevant. “Democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of oppression,” noted Reagan. How true today, considering Communist [...]

admin2022-08-02T10:07:06-04:00August 2, 2022|John Carpay|

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