Nicholas Newman
Nicholas Newman was born in Britain and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is now an orthopaedic surgeon practising in Montreal, Quebec. Nicholas is married and and has four adult offspring. He is a member of the Catholic religious movement, Communion and Liberation.
Bio last updated June 17th, 2021.
Articles by Nicholas Newman
On the Table
By Nicholas Newman
June 1, 2014
Dr. Nicholas Newman takes issue with our editor on Israel
Harper was effusive in his praise of Israeli democracy and Israeli respect for human rights, and de Souza likewise The last several Israeli governments, including the current one supported by Harper and de Souza, have increased the rate of Israeli settlement in the occupied lands, deliberately making the formation of an independent, contiguous Palestinian State more difficult, if not impossible
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Free Willy Nilly
Nicholas Newman
October 1, 2013
Dr. Nicholas Newman says intellectuals who insist on scientific rationalism while defending equality, democracy and the rule of law should give their heads a shake
If these intellectuals are entitled to believe in free will and equality, why shouldn't the State defend these same beliefs? If these intellectuals have neither rational nor scientific grounds to accept, nor any transcendent belief in, human free will or human equality, why should their arguments in...
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Euthanizing Conscience
Nicholas Newman
April 1, 2013
A classic essay by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel aids Dr. Nicholas Newman to frame Quebec’s plan to kill hospital patients
For the past several years, Quebecers have been subjected to a propaganda campaign to persuade them—and the doctors who provide them with medical care—that euthanasia and assisted suicide are a natural and favourable social evolution whose time has come It is a question particularly pertinent to Mén...