In my latest Epoch Times column I say the real danger facing Canada isn’t tyranny but anarchy, with governments full of meddlesome ambition so lost in make-believe they freeze facing real-world problems.
In my latest Mercatornet column I warn that the divisions over the protest convoy reflect a collapse of trust in Canadian society that will not be healed by both sides acting untrustworthy.
“There’s no elevator to the major leagues. You have to take the stairs.”
The supervisor of Canadian scouting for Major League Baseball, Tom Valcke, quoted in Maclean’s November 11, 1992
“The only proposals in the senate that I have seen fit to mention are particularly praiseworthy or particularly scandalous ones. It seems to me a historian’s foremost duty to ensure that merit is recorded, and to confront evil words and deeds with the fear of posterity’s denunciation.”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus The Annals of Imperial Rome
In my latest National Post column I ask how I, of all people, could be a lonely voice of balanced reason on the truckers’ protests.
“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.