“I have a friend who said one day, ‘I could resent the ocean if I tried...’”
Anne Lamott Some Instructions on Writing and Life
In my latest NP Platformed newsletter I say Whoopi Goldberg’s racially insensitive and obtuse comments on the Holocaust might actually help us move back toward sanity on race, and on cancel culture as well.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the freedom convoy has achieved all the good it could have, and more than it could reasonably have expected, and should withdraw in triumph rather than stay until something really does go wrong.
“Homegoroshi: The Japanese technique of humiliating a person with exaggerated compliments.”
Globe & Mail September 25, 2000
In my latest Epoch Times column I ask everyone concerned with the Freedom Convoy, friends and foes alike, to stop acting as if they were their own worst enemy and a danger to the public.
In my latest National Post column I say Trudeau’s mean-spirited, partisan remarks about the truckers’ convoy reflect a chronically divisive approach at a time when Canadians need a respectful exchange of ideas not a surly exchange of insults.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say there’s a silver lining to people noticing thanks to the pandemic that the Charter doesn’t protect us from overbearing government … but only if we decide to fix the problem, and the Constitution.
“The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.”
Titus Livius, aka “Livy” The Early History of Rome