In my latest Epoch Times column, a New Year’s look ahead, I said if we can’t get politicians to resolve to stop talking nonsense in 2026, we can at least determine that we ourselves won’t pretend they’re not… even if they’re on “our side”.
On the News Forum with Hal Roberts I discuss equalization, Western alienation and the feeble inertia of Canadian public policy.
“When Chesterton had been on the London literary scene for only a few years, both the general public and the literary critics started realizing his great versatility… ‘It has been suspected for some time,’ wrote an anonymous critic, ‘that his foible is omniscience.’ (Manchester Courier, Mar. 18, 1905).”
Dale Ahlquist “Tremendous Trifles” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)
In my latest appearance on Juno News, I join “The Fighter“ host and Canadian Taxpayers Foundation Alberta Director Kris Sims to discuss where Mark Carney currently squirms on climate and Hollywood remaking Animal Farm as an anti-capitalist metaphor.
“Work while you work,/ Play while you play;/ One thing each time,/ That is the way. All that you do,/ Do with your might;/ Things done by halves/ Are not done right.”
Complete text of “Work while you work” from McGuffey’s Primer, in William Bennett The Book of Virtues
“John, you deserve an exclusive vacation”
Subject line on email from Marriott Vacation Club June 11, 2024 [making no effort to establish that I in fact deserved such a thing]
“Publishers do not deny that they are publishers unless there are poets lurking about.”
G.K. Chesterton quoted without further attribution in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the federal government throwing money at the alleged bigotry of Canadian supermarkets’ astounding selection of foods while ignoring runaway deficits is at once frivolous and malevolent.