Apr. 16th, 2021

dewline: "Truth is still real" (anti-fascism)
Ford's creeping more and more into "Your papers, please" mode. Right?

I should use a CBC News report to illustrate what I mean by this for people outside of Ontario. This one, perhaps...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/coronavirus-covid19-canada-world-april16-2021-1.5990091
dewline: Community is Real! (community)
Under discussion on Ideas tonight:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/with-the-world-in-crisis-what-s-an-intellectual-to-do-1.5989044

Quoting the page:
What is the duty of intellectuals — our scholars, authors and artists — at a time of social division and global crises?

In the first spring after the First World War, French novelist and essayist Romain Rolland began writing what he called Declaration of the Independence of the Mind: a document aimed at healing the rift among intellectuals divided by war, and re-establishing the primacy of truth over and above any national or ideological border.

Later that year, and despite some reservations, it was signed by the likes of Albert Einstein and published on the front page of L'Humanite, a socialist French newspaper.

More than a century later, the world navigates a different kind of international crisis, one that has nevertheless also brought death and widespread economic devastation and isolation, as well as a new brand of ultra-nationalism that has divided the world anew...

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