Thanks to Jana for coming onto the podcast! To get started buying your first bitcoin, solana, and ethereum, sign up for Newton today: https://web.newton.co/r/NY371Z Twitter: www.twitter.com/eugenefds Instagram: www.instagram.com/fernandeseu

James Rosen-Birch: Canadian Monopolies, Health Care, and Entrepreneurship.

Feb 2nd, 2022 1h 4m

Thanks to James for coming onto the podcast!You can find him (and his thoughts) on the following platforms:https://twitter.com/provisionalideaprovisionalideas.comTwitter: www.twitter.com/eugenefds Instagram: www.instagram.com/fernandeseug

Frank Hepworth - Crypto Lawyer Explains the Threat Crypto Poses to Lawyers

Jan 15th, 2022 59m 39s

Thanks to Frank Hepworth for coming onto Letters from a Contrarian!To get started buying your first bitcoin, solana, and ethereum, sign up for Newton today! https://web.newton.co/r/NY371ZTopics Discussed:etherscan.ioThe Block ExplorerTerra

Mackenzie Putici - Picking Profitable NFTs, 20% Returns from Yield Farming, and Selling a Bored Ape!

Dec 16th, 2021 52m 36s

Thanks to Mackenzie Putici for coming onto Letters from a Contrarian!The *iconic* Bored Ape Yacht Club: https://opensea.io/collection/boredapeyachtclubSolana Platforms like OpenSea on which you can trade NFTs:Digital Eyes: https://digitaleye

Nicholas Merten - Founding and Running Digifox, The Value of Bitcoin, and Energy Stocks

Dec 2nd, 2021 56m 44s

Full disclosure, I happen to work at Digifox, and Nicholas is my boss. But as a 23 year old who's responsible for the salaries of ~2 dozen people and a Praxis graduate, Nicholas is an extremely impressive guy. In this episode, we discussed his

IJ Makan - Cultural Appropriation, Crypto, NFTs, and Future Cities

Nov 16th, 2021 1h 45m

IJ and I met over twitter! We covered a lot of ground in this episode, including discussions about Canadian identity (or lack thereof), the potential that blockchain and crypto has, how he got started creating his NFT collection of philosopher

Steve Paolasini - Jumping Down the Crypto Rabbit Hole

Nov 1st, 2021 1h 19m

Steve Paolasini joins us once again to talk about his journey into crypto and all of its possibilities!

Pandemic Populism - Season 2 Wrap Up

Oct 20th, 2021 1h 3m

In Season 2 of Letters from a Contrarian, I sought to understand what went wrong with Canada's pandemic response, and what a more ethical, constitutional, and tolerable response would've looked like.I summarize my two answers to these questio

Bruce Pardy - Vaccine Passports

Sep 1st, 2021 1h 18m

Bruce Pardy is a law professor at Queen's University. References for Pardy's claim that you're just as likely to catch COVID-19 if you've been vaccinated than if you haven't:https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0730-mmwr-covid-19.htmlht

D. Jared Brown - Revelations from Cross-Examining Manitoba's Health Experts in Court

May 29th, 2021 47m 3s

D. Jared Brown is a litigator and Bencher of the Law Society of Ontario.References:Section 3 of Manitoba’s Public Health Act: “If the exercise of a power under this Act restricts rights or freedoms, the restriction must be no greater than is

Dr. Doug Allen - The Flawed Assumptions Beneath COVID-19 Modelling (Epidemiological and Economic)

Apr 30th, 2021 58m 59s

Dr. Doug Allen is a professor of economics at Simon Fraser University.Video Link: https://youtu.be/GVsQdUa9_DsReferences:Allen. “Covid Lockdown Cost/Benefits: A Critical Assessment of the Literature.” April 2021. http://www.sfu.ca/~allen/Loc

Dave Redman - Models, Mismanagement, and Emergency Planning

Mar 31st, 2021 1h 2m

Please check out my website at eugenefernandes.com/letters-from-a-contrarian/ to read the full show notes for this episode, along with the transcript. References:The World Health Organization’s 2019 guide on Non-pharmaceutical public health m

Dr. Ari Joffe: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Lockdowns

Feb 28th, 2021 1h

Please check out my website for show notes, takeaways, and transcripts, at eugenefernandes.com.Thanks!References:COVID-19: Rethinking the Lockdown Groupthink:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.625778/fullForecasting f

Season 2 Trailer

Feb 27th, 2021 17m 21s

I'm back.Table of Contents:[0:00] The government and my fellow citizens don't seem to be responsibly balancing public health with our rights and freedoms. This makes me sad and worried. [0:40] The curfew in Quebec is unreasonable. I don't t

Ryan Elson: No Humble Opinions, Dialogue, Social Connection, and Changing Minds

Dec 29th, 2020 58m 27s

For our last episode of 2020, Ryan Elson, the host of No Humble Opinions, joined us. You can learn more about Tribe and No Humble Opinions by finding him on facebook. He's also pretty damn friendly, so make sure to say hi! Thanks for coming on

Matt Strauss, MD: Lockdowns, Trust, China, Philosophy, and Doctors.

Nov 28th, 2020 1h 43m

0:05 Introduction, Strauss’ ostensibly contrarian opinion, media biases and framing, how lockdowns save lives, herd immunity, Great Barrington Declaration.0:20 How we should be dealing with the COVID pandemic, masks, HIV, adults taking risks,

Dr Eddy Lang - Overdiagnosis, Cancer, ADHD, and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Nov 2nd, 2020 1h 20m

Dr Lang shares his concerns about overdiagnosis in breast cancer and prostate cancer screening, among other conditions, like ADHD. We chat about the incentives behind overdiagnosis along with some solutions to it too. Lastly, we chat about how

Ford v. Pardy — The Conflict on the Right

Oct 12th, 2020 2h 24m

Hey everyone! We're back! This week we have a debate between Caylan Ford, and Bruce Pardy. A debate between common good conservatism and libertarianism. The motion?"In the face of growing intolerance from the left, the state should enforce th

Jesse Clarke (@jesseclarke95): Ex-Muslims, Abduction, Fathers, and Fear

Aug 12th, 2020 1h 48m

Hey there :) This week I spoke with Jesse Clarke, a charming ex-muslim activist from the UK. Enjoy!

JL (@stucatz101): From Finance to Carpentry, and Nassim Taleb.

Aug 3rd, 2020 46m 59s

Ciao everyone! This week I spoke with someone I met on twitter - a guy from Toronto who talked about the university system, graduating with a finance degree, going into carpentry, and more generally, his thoughts on how to become a skilled and

Nadia Guo: Police Accountability, a Lawyer's Reputation, Media Deception, and Sex Work

Jul 29th, 2020 1h 59m

Welcome back. This week I spoke with Ms. Nadia Guo - a criminal defence lawyer and sex worker based in Toronto. You can reach her on twitter at @ngdefence. Enjoy.

Dr. Ryan Alford: 7 Absolute Rights, Canada's Unwritten Constitution, Torture, and Law Schools

Jul 20th, 2020 1h 49m

Hey everyone! Dr. Ryan Alford is a tenured professor at the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University. On this episode, we discussed many things, like Baldwin and LaFontaine's fight against the Tory oligarchy in Canada's 19th century, C

Lisa Bildy: StopSOP, Creating New Institutions, Liberalism, and Flirting

Jul 14th, 2020 2h 41m

Hey everyone! We're back with another episode. Lisa Bildy is a lawyer for the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms. Reach her on twitter at @ldbildy

Ryan Handlarski: #metoo, Apartheid, StopSOP, and Boomers

Jun 27th, 2020 2h 21m

We've made it to Episode 10! Mr. Handlarski is a Criminal Defence Lawyer in Toronto who hates golf and loves irony. We talked about the #metoo movement, the presumption of innocence, the statement of principles, his reasons for objecting to the

Candice Malcolm: Kenney, Khalistani Extremism, and Journalistic Courage

Jun 25th, 2020 1h 16m

Hey everyone! On this episode, I speak with Candice Malcom. We talked about Jason Kenney and Danielle Smith (two of Alberta's political leaders), how Candice uses intimidation to drive her forward (she's antifragile!), her article on Sikh extre