In my latest National Post column I expand on Chris Selley’s alarming insight that Canadian politicians and voters consistently act as if nothing mattered.
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.
“Now this modern refusal to undo what has been done is not only an intellectual fault; it is a moral fault also. It is not merely our mental inability to understand the mistake we have made. It is also our spiritual refusal to admit that we have made a mistake.”
G.K. Chesterton quoted in stand-alone box without further attribution in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #6 (July/August 2025)
“Marching toward the present decade [from the history of the sexual revolution in the conflicting libertine and feminist versions], women are twice as likely as men to be on antidepressants or anti-anxiety medications.”
Amanda Hobbs in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #2 (Nov./Dec. 2024)
In my latest National Post column I say the Canadian state has become so profoundly incapable that when politicians and bureaucrats don’t do something they claimed they were going to, it’s nearly impossible to tell whether they didn’t want to, couldn’t, or both.
“The worst kind of depression is not when we see bad things and hate them; the worst kind of depression, the hell below hell, is when we see good things and do not love them.”
G.K. Chesterton in London Opinion April 2, 1904, quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #4 (March/April 2025)
“The Ontario government’s finances are a paradox. The PC government regularly boasts about ‘historic’ levels of spending, but faces constant complaints about underfunding, especially from the health-care, education and post-secondary sectors. What’s the real picture? In fact, budget figures show that revenue and spending have increased dramatically since Premier Doug Ford was first elected.”
Randall Denley in National Post June 20, 2025
“Christianity… has marked the limits of it [“this romantic riddle” that to gain your life you must lose it, for instance the soldier who can only fight his way out of a tight spot by taking terrible risks as if they were casual] in the awful graves of the suicide and the hero, showing the distance between him who dies for the sake of living and him who dies for the sake of dying.”
Peter Floriani in “The Golden Key Chain GKC on Scripture Conducted by Peter Floriani” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #4 (March/April 2025)