In my latest National Post column I deplore Canadian governments’ casual way of denying citizens information even on matters of life and death.

“Standing on the [Atlantic City in the early 1990s] Boardwalk this mild October day, one beheld the Trump Taj Mahal with that odd mixture of fascination and nausea reserved for the great blunders of human endeavor.”

James Howard Kunstler The Geography of Nowhere

“The catch-22 of the aesthete is that he lives for a new experience, but all experiences are old as soon as they pass....Wilde wrote, ‘I myself would sacrifice everything for a new experience, and I know there is no such thing as a new experience at all’...”

Joseph Pearce in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #7

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say even more worrying than the WE scandal antics is the public sector insouciantly taking massive paid leaves and giving itself big raises during the private sector pandemic crisis.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say the exceptionally rude rhetoric Chinese “diplomats” are aiming even at the United States suggests that this ugly regime thinks its time to strike has come.

In my latest National Post column I say the WE scandal must not put us to sleep with its characteristically Canadian dull murkiness.

“Every activity has its own specific goal. Pleasure very probably ensues in most cases when this goal is reached, but that is a different matter.”

I.A. Richards Principles of Literary Criticism