Author: Matt Payne

James Turk () is the Director of the at Ryerson University. James and Leslie discuss the importance of free expression in a democratic society, the futility and counterproductive nature of censorship, and what limits on expression are reasonable and…

is an Associate Professor of political science at the University of Waterloo. She and Leslie discuss the various waves of democracy in the past century, and the backlash to them. They discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and how most democratic…

Host Leslie Rosenblood and Caroline Russell-King () discuss the secular case for Bill 21, in the second instalment of a two-part series. Caroline describes the harms Bill 21 is intended to mitigate, and whether they justify the nontrivial limitations…

Quebec’s Bill 21, which prohibits most government employees from wearing religious symbols, has split Canada’s secular community. The divide is largely geographic; most secularists within Quebec support Bill 21, while a majority in the rest of…

Indigenous scholar Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson (@LloydHawkeye7) and host Leslie Rosenblood discuss the importance of enlightenment values and defending them from attack. Lloyd is the President of the , a Canadian humanist initiative, dedicated to free…