John R. Wiens
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 6
- Latest publication
- Sep 10, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Winnipegfreepress
- Top 500K sites
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- Jul 8, 2026
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Opinion: Vote for your local trustees (opens the original)
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It’s the start of a new school year, but not just any school year. It’s also school board election year. One year of digital access for only $205* *First annual payment billed as $205.00 + GST for one year. This annual subscription will automatically renew at $233.00 + GST every 52 weeks (10% off the regular annual price of $259.35). Offer available to new and qualified returning subscribers only. Cancel any time. *Your next Brandon Sun subscription payment will increase by $1.00 and you will be
Opinion: Trump: Ozymandias revisited? (opens the original)
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In 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, inspired by the shattered statue of the most powerful Egyptian Pharaoh, Ramses II, wrote the sonnet Ozymandias as a comment on human hubris and impermanence. It provides a fitting epithet for the imperialistic forays of the current United States’ president and would-be autocrat, Donald J. Trump. One year of digital access for only $205* *First annual payment billed as $205.00 + GST for one year. This annual subscription will automatically renew at $233.00 + GST eve
Opinion: Educated people vote (opens the original)
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I add my voice to Erna Buffie’s Think Tank piece “Democracy is a civic election issue” (Aug. 13) by asserting that democracy is a public education issue. Put another way, this fall’s municipal and school board elections are a test of public education — educating democratic citizens who appreciate our democratic inheritance enough to take responsibility for renewing it. One year of digital access for only $205* *First annual payment billed as $205.00 + GST for one year. This annual subscription w
Opinion: Differing goals of religion, politics (opens the original)
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Kudos to David Driedger for modelling a more appropriate and constructive role for religion in politics than the one that has become commonplace today (Take care of them; there is enough, Think Tank, July 27). One year of digital access for only $205* *First annual payment billed as $205.00 + GST for one year. This annual subscription will automatically renew at $233.00 + GST every 52 weeks (10% off the regular annual price of $259.35). Offer available to new and qualified returning subscribers
Opinion: Time for a democratic reset (opens the original)
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‘Amor mundi’, love of the world, is a basic tenet of Hannah Arendt’s philosophy of life and closely related to her idea of republican (i.e., democratic) politics. Currently, Western democracies have strayed far from the ideals stressed in this view. One year of digital access for only $205* *First annual payment billed as $205.00 + GST for one year. This annual subscription will automatically renew at $233.00 + GST every 52 weeks (10% off the regular annual price of $259.35). Offer available to
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