More Questions Than Answers
Dr. Julie Ponesse has a PhD in Philosophy (Western, 2008) with areas of specialization in ethics and ancient philosophy. She has a Masters in Philosophy with Collaborative Specialization in Bioethics from the University of Toronto and a Diploma in Ethics from the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. In the fall of 2021, Dr. Julie Ponesse saw her academic career of 20 years fall apart after she refused to comply with a Canadian university’s COVID vaccine mandate. Dr Ponesse now works for The Democracy Fund as the Pandemic Ethics Scholar which allows to have interesting conversations with interesting people where no questions or topics are taboo. Where they aren’t afraid to work through the thoughts on our minds. No cancelling, no censoring, no holding back for fear of what others might say or do to us. No shutting down or shying away. Just honest, open, rigorous conversation about the big issues that are interesting and concerning us today. ”It seems like we no longer have the skills or grace to tolerate uncomfortable questions or open discussion. We seem only to want ’black and white’ solutions to grey problems. Open-ended questions, more questions than answers. These are the things that appeal to me. That’s my comfort zone.”– Dr. Julie Ponesse
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Episodes
Friday Mar 04, 2022
Friday Mar 04, 2022
Pandemic Ethics Scholar Dr. Julie Ponesse discusses the ethics of cancel culture.
Friday Mar 04, 2022
Friday Mar 04, 2022
Pandemic Ethics Scholar Dr. Julie Ponesse breaks down and reacts to a key judgement by Justice A. Pazaratz ruling in favour of a mother who doesn't want the Covid-19 vaccine for her kids. Crucially, Pazaratz explains that it's not illegal to question your government and think critically.
Friday Mar 04, 2022
Friday Mar 04, 2022
Pandemic Ethics Scholar Dr. Julie Ponesse sits down with Dr. Barry Engelhardt to discuss what he saw in Ottawa during the Freedom Convoy and how things have shifted in Canada since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr. Engelhardt is a retired physician after 35 years in family medicine, UFT graduate with a masters in bio ethics and is a book author.
Friday Mar 04, 2022
Friday Mar 04, 2022
The Canadian Constitution doesn’t always get the attention it deserves. It seems to be often overlooked and with PM Justin Trudeau invoking The Emergencies Act on Feb. 14, 2022, some Canadians may not be aware of what their rights are. Pandemic Ethics Scholar Dr. Julie Ponesse reads the Constitution Act 1982, Part 1: Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and explains why the Canadian Constitution is so important.
Friday Mar 04, 2022
Friday Mar 04, 2022
Alan Honner is the Senior Litigator at The Democracy Fund. Alan sat down with our Pandemic Ethics Scholar Dr. Julie Ponesse to go over what exactly The Emergencies Act is, why we have it, if it is appropriate to invoke in our current state, and what we can do to fight it.
Friday Feb 25, 2022
Friday Feb 25, 2022
My Choice: The Ethical Case Against Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates audiobook coming soon! Stay tuned!
Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
Dr. Jordan Peterson joins Dr. Julie Ponesse to discuss the Canadian Trucker Freedom Convoy 2022, cancel culture, power, racism and much more. You won't want to miss this interview!
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Dr. Julie Ponesse sits down with Dr. Peter McCullough for an in depth discussion on Covid-19 vaccines, mandates and the mass psychosis we are experiencing. Dr. McCullough is a board certified specialist in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases, focusing on the interface of heart and kidney disease. He has an MD from the University of Texas and completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Washington. He also has a master’s degree in public health from the University of Michigan and was a full professor of medicine at Texas A&M College of Medicine in Dallas. Dr McCullough is one of the top five most-published medical researchers with papers in more than 1000 publications including the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet, and the British Medical Journal. He is also the editor-in-chief of Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine and senior associate editor of the American Journal of Cardiology. Dr. McCullough has been an invited lecturer at the New York Academy of Sciences, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the European Medicines Agency. On November 19, 2020, Dr. McCullough testified in the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs concerning early ambulatory treatment of high-risk patients with COVID-19. Dr. McCullough is a COVID-19 survivor himself and welcomes post-COVID-19 patients into his practice.
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Monday Jan 24, 2022
David Healy is a psychiatrist, scientist, psychopharmacologist, and author.
Before becoming a professor of Psychiatry in Wales, and more recently in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University in Canada, he studied medicine in Dublin, and at Cambridge University. He is a former Secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology, and has authored more than 220 peer-reviewed articles, 300 other pieces, and 25 books, including The Antidepressant Era and The Creation of Psychopharmacology from Harvard University Press, The Psychopharmacologists Volumes 1-3 and Let Them Eat Prozac from New York University Press, and Mania from Johns Hopkins University Press and Pharmageddon.
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Dr. Julie Ponesse sits down with Harry Wade, the former engineering student at Western University that was dragged out of his classroom on numerous occasions for refusing to disclose his Covid-19 vaccination status.
My Choice: The Ethical Case Against Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates
In the fall of 2021, Dr. Julie Ponesse saw her academic career of 20 years fall apart after she refused to comply with a Canadian university's COVID vaccine mandate.
This is her account of the battle and its aftermath, written with passion and intelligence. But Dr. Ponesse's story travels beyond the personal and examines the ethical and philosophical dimensions of our pandemic response.
If there is anyone out there who feels alone in the struggle to preserve personal choice and freedom, this book offers some very human advice on how to move forward and makes it clear that your voice deserves to be heard.
About Dr. Julie Ponesse
Julie Ponesse has a PhD in Philosophy (Western, 2008) with areas of specialization in ethics and ancient philosophy. She has a Masters in Bioethics from the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto and a Diploma in Ethics from the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. She has published in the areas of ancient philosophy, ethical theory, and applied ethics, and has taught at universities in Canada and the US for 20 years.
Since the fall of 2021, Dr. Ponesse has joined The Democracy Fund as the Pandemic Ethics Scholar focussing on educating the public on civil liberties.