DR. JULIE PONESSE STOPS BY HERE
following an important podcast chat.
Julie Will be commenting here so bring your questions and thoughts:
This week’s podcast was a labour of love and liberation. I spent two engaging hours with Dr. Julie Ponesse, a person I admire, someone who has been tested by the fires of tyranny and did not waver. As a philosopher and ethicist, she put her job on the line to say “no” to mandated jabs at the university where she taught and in that moment - became a leader in the pushback that saved lives. Ponesse gave a memorable speech at the convoy in Ottawa and remains a powerful voice - thinking, analyzing and writing about what happened and what it means.
We discuss her latest book, Our Last Innocent Moment, which describes the horror of the last four years and how we were already primed for it. She challenges us to engage with our future, donning spiritual armour, clear thinking and camaraderie.
Every page contains a nugget or two that made me stop and think and my own copy is Post-it Noted and full of underlining and notes.
In essence — the book assures us that what we are feeling is real and that we have all just had a major scrape with tyranny. And asks, now what?
On a personal note - I feel a kinship with Julie that I didn’t fully understand until I read this book. I hope that if I’d had a more formal education, I might have grown into someone with her deep understanding of history and its connections to our present moment. She is a kind human and a wonderful mother — things hard to maintain at a time when we can feel rage and hopelessness.
Julie will engage with our listeners on this page throughout the weekend so do leave us questions and comments and we will keep the conversation going. The podcast link is below if you haven’t listened yet.
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This conversation couldn’t have come at a better time. Last evening I went for dinner with a friend who was a high level administrator for the Regional Health Authority in Winnipeg during the covid debacle. In 2021 she had left me feeling that I must be mentally ill to not want the vaccine. Somehow, we carried on our friendship. I always felt I should defer to her position as she was seeing the pandemic on the front lines. Last night I realized how ill-informed and reactionary she and her team had been towards the virus. She has had seven shots and her two year old granddaughter is covid vaccinated. I asked why, as children were not at risk. She told me children were among the most vulnerable. I was gobsmacked. She also maintains the vaccines stop transmission. Incredible that a person in her position knew so little about key covid truths. Our dinner was 4 1/2 hours. At one point she told me we should change the subject because it was upsetting her. I’m afraid I waited four years to find my voice so I wasn’t about to back down. Not sure the friendship will survive, but as Dr. Julie said, it was the most freeing thing in the world to speak my truth and not worry about the fall-out. Those peddling and maintaining the narrative certainly have no such inhibitions! Thank you, lovely lovely Dr Julie, and Trish, who always ask the right questions.❤️
What great conversation between two very wise women. When I took my stand on the COVID nonsense, I was very alone, even my family thought I was being too cavalier about it, to the extent that my family cancelled I visit to see them in my home town of Thunder Bay. They still cling to the 'accepted' COVID narrative by saying 'they didn't know what they were dealing with' to make excuses for the lockdowns and restrictions. You ladies talked about fighting on, because the fight isn't over and you are right. Because I believe they -- the WHO, the UN, the WEF, etc., are ramping up the for the next pandemic or the next crisis. I have sneaking feeling they are still looking at declaring a climate emergency which has already started limiting our freedoms. I also believe because they kind of exposed themselves for their actions during COVID that more people are becoming increasingly sceptical about the 'climate change'. I came across this article published by the Brownstone Institute, Called an Open Letter to the People - The Time is Now. I think it echos a lot of what you ladies discussed today. Your thoughts?https://brownstone.org/articles/open-letter-to-the-people-the-time-is-now/