Today we remember everyone who has fought for our freedoms. Thank you to those that are still with us, and those that paid the ultimate sacrifice.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them – Laurence Binyon
One Canadian veteran hopes to remind us of a truth etched in blood and history.
In the ongoing fight for individual rights and freedoms in Canada, a recent decision from Arbitrator James Hayes has supported the individual rights of the Air Canada pilots placed on unpaid leave, after their religious exemptions to the Covid-19 vaccination policy were denied.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Janet Leiper’s March 20th ruling dismissing Adam Skelly’s Charter challenge, has dealt a blow to individual rights.
It is too bad that I was then too young to recall the liberation from Nazi dictatorship in 1945 but I do remember how in everyday parlance the WWII Nazi occupation was the landmark in conversations for decades. It always had happened either ‘before’, ‘during’ or ‘right after’ the war. A generation had been traumatized by the Nazis. There’s more: a collaborating bureaucracy that was kept in place after the the war was unable to restore the trust needed to function, particularly in the eyes of those who had resisted and often had done so at the cost of lives and property. What to do now? The emigrants of the late 1940s and early 1950s voted with their feet. But where do the Covid-19 resistors go?