In my latest Loonie Politics column I say Mark Carney’s jet-setting quest for European Union “associate membership”, which doesn’t even exist anyway, is classic Carney blarney, all maze and no cheese.
In my latest National Post column I say Mark Carney’s “Investment Summit” was classic Carney blarney, windy and impractical.
On Forum Daily News with Hal Roberts I talk about how not to react to Alberta’s separatist movement.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I denounce the Canadian habit of putting up with meaningless rhetoric from politicians with nonsensical jobs.
“It is psychologically impossible, when we hear real scientific statistics, not to think that they mean something. Generally they mean nothing. Sometimes they mean something that isn’t true.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Nov. 18, 1905, quoted in “Statistics” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #6 (July/August 2025)
“Il y a des folies qui se prennent comme les maladies contagieuses.”
La Rochefoucauld Maximes [Réflexions morales #300]
“Tim Flannery’s predictions have aged like fine milk.”
“Topher Project Ep 110” commentary by Topher Field on Flannery’s recurring media-friendly predictions that Australia would succumb to drought 4/7/25 [https://youtu.be/5tatwHXlk6M?t=230]
In my latest Loonie Politics column I take aim at the 20th-anniversary Harper revisionist rationalizations that he never intended to implement conservative policies, just build a winning party… which he didn’t even do anyway.