Akaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism

Akaash Maharaj
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Akaash Maharaj's projects, articles, broadcasts, and blog serving the public good and advancing the national interest. On politics, public policy, liberalism, foreign affairs, and equestrian sport.

  1. 03/08/2019 · VIDEO

    TVO's The Agenda: Animal Welfare at a Crossroads - Videocast

    The courts have ruled that the Ontario SPCA's police powers are unconstitutional. What is the future for animal welfare enforcement in Canada's largest province? Who can or will protect creatures who can not cry out for mercy?

    34 min

  2. 12/23/2018

    The Arc of History - Podcast

    All of us can wield a power that those who would divide us will never know: an ability to make common cause out of our common humanity and our common dignity, and a determination to join hands across the divisions that beset the human condition, to create a better world in the image of the better angels of our natures.

    5 min

  3. 06/07/2015

    Addressing the United Nations - Podcast

    Addressing the United Nations was one of the more intimidating experiences of my life. I spoke on behalf of GOPAC's global alliance of parliamentarians, on our work to bring kleptocrats to justice.

    10 min

  4. 07/02/2012 · VIDEO

    TVO's The Agenda: The New McCarthyism - Videocast

    There is no worse cancer in a free society than the thuggish impulse to equate dissent as disloyalty... The greatest patriot is the person with the courage to be the lone voice in the crowd crying out that the Emperor has no clothes. The test of our society's democratic nature is our instinct to value the right of our fellow human beings to disagree with us.

    4 min

  5. 06/14/2012 · VIDEO

    TVO's The Agenda: Forgiving the Unforgivable - Videocast

    Our capacity to do violence to one another is the worst tragedy of the human condition, but it makes our still greater capacity to forgive one another all the more powerful.

    4 min

  6. 04/07/2012 · VIDEO

    TVO's The Agenda: The Raj, the Reich, and the Good Fight - Videocast

    Gandhi and Bose were brothers in the hunger for justice, and both had followers who were willing to die for freedom rather than live as slaves. But one group was so blinded by passion for its cause, that it was willing to join hands with regimes whose very names have become bywords for evil in almost every spoken language on the planet.

    4 min

  7. 03/03/2012 · VIDEO

    TVO's The Agenda: A Meritocracy Worth Fighting For - Videocast

    Throughout our history, Canada has grown through the toil of generations of Canadians who were inspired by the belief that our country is free of the rigid class systems of the Old World, that Canadians' success or failure depends on our own efforts and our own abilities...But in recent years, we have come to doubt our faith in this meritocracy.

    4 min

  8. 01/28/2012 · VIDEO

    TVO's The Agenda: Resistance is Not Futile - Videocast

    In any democracy worthy of the name, it is not merely the right, but the responsibility of every citizen to resist unjust laws... but there is a contrast between making a scene, and making a difference. There is a choice between the comfort of self-righteous illusion, and the peril of self-sacrificing commitment. There is a hard journey between railing against unjust laws, and living out a life that models justice.

    4 min
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