Disrupting democracy, for good

Former parliamentarians, grassroots activists, corporate executives, and Silicon Valley founders of all stripes to launch a social media app that will become a fertile venue for the safe, private, and free flow of competing points of view on issues of vital importance to our democracy.

One of our biggest challenges is having made poor use of our choices, freedoms, knowledge, and prosperity as it relates to governing and being governed. We’ve embraced digital tools and platforms that group us into silos—depriving us of occasionally uncomfortable, but essential outside influences, writes Murray Simser.Image courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY MURRAY SIMSER

January 12, 2022

TORONTO—It isn’t easy to be a steward of democracy today. Where once the word evoked all the positive development with which we have been blessed since its inception, new “d” words come to mind when reading about the anniversary of the Capitol Hill riots. Distress, distortion, decline. It�...

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