In the Western Standard, on behalf of the Aristotle Foundation, I took the Toronto Star to task (last week - I’m late posting it) for a news story riddled with errors of fact and misleading interpretations on the subject of a Queen’s Park statue of Sir John A. Macdonald put in a rat-infested memory hole.
In the Western Standard my latest book review for the Aristotle Foundation praises John Ibbitson’s The Duel while taking issue with the author’s belief that his subjects, John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, were giants.
On the Richard Syrett show on Sauga 960 AM I discussed my Aristotle Foundation column in the Western Standard on the strange-looking decision to devote an entire issue of the official Canadian Military Journal to a denunciation of our crumbling armed forces as a bastion of patriarchal settler oppression.
In my latest Aristotle Foundation column, published in the Western Standard, I say the embrace of radical DEI ideology by Canada’s military leaders, including a notorious recent issue of Canadian Military Journal, makes sense if you put aside conspiracy theories and recognize that ideas have consequences and people believe their beliefs, including ones you don’t share.
Troy Media has also now published my review for the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy of Stephen Bown’s exciting Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada.
In Western Standard I present a review for the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy of Stephen Bown’s gripping Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada, from colourful characters to poisonous whiskey to the crucial role of dynamite in building this nation and the West generally in the 19th century.