In my latest National Post column I say the cycle of COVID lockdowns is like a bad remake of Groundhog Day, where no lessons get learned

“It is my conceit to expose myself to reproach only from others, never from myself.”

Nero Wolfe to the client in Rex Stout The Mother Hunt

“Make it happen. Greatness is not in where we stand but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But sail we must and not drift. Nor lie at anchor.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes, a quotation that hockey player Sidney Crosby kept on his dresser according to Reader’s Digest Canadian Edition October 2005

In my latest National Post column I say that politicians and voters need to make a New Year’s resolution to think about why bad things are happening and how to stop or reduce them instead of just wishing them away.

“Our greatest yet with least pretence,/ Great in council and great in war,/ Foremost captain of his time,/ Rich in saving common-sense,/ And, as the greatest only are,/ In his simplicity sublime.”

Alfred Lord Tennyson “Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington”

“That is informative merely about you, madam, not about the problem.”

Nero Wolfe to a client in Rex Stout The Mother Hunt regarding her thought processes.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say Canada is especially vulnerable to the chronic global phenomenon of oversold, over budget, underperforming megaprojects because a widespread conceit that our public sector is world-class leads us to neglect mundane public-sector accountability.

“The opinions of our enemies come nearer to the truth about us than do our own opinions.”

LaRochefoucauld, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living