In my latest National Post column I worry about Boris Johnson being threatened with a "diversity course" to make him like the burka.
'Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools’ shoes."
Charlie Chan, according to a biography of Chan's creator Earl Derr Biggers I found on an AOL group on October 26, 2006
"Our magazine’s habit of pointing this out [that the elite’s myths about Canada are not actually true], and of stubbornly remembering times when things made more sense, causes our critics to say we’re stuck in the past. I can only reply that they are stuck in the present – in most respects a singularly dismal and confining place to be. It’s like having cultural Alzheimer’s."
Link Byfield in Globe & Mail October 25, 1999
In my latest National Post column I say French President Emmanuel Macron's expressed wish to govern like Jupiter would have doomed him in the English-speaking world... and should have in France or anywhere else too.
"When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you."
Irving Layton, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Globe & Mail August 8, 2001
"Odd, I thought to myself, how in all walks of life there are lives graced by dreams, and lives steeped in dullness. And when greatness strikes, the dreamer is prepared; grace softens the shock. But to the dull, greatness can be traumatic."
Frank Capra The Name Above the Title