Ottawa has a problem with guns and gangs. Several problems actually. But the biggest one, as usual, is conceptual, because if you don’t realize what you’re doing wrong you can’t change it. Click here to read the rest.

Are you enjoying your newfound global tranquility? If so you can thank Barack Obama. At least, that’s what he says. Click here to read the rest.

Here’s an amazing story. Amazing as in dreadful. A South Carolina mom just got arrested for letting her kid go play in a park. Click here to read the rest.

We face a multiple choice question on prostitution: Criminalize it for both parties, legalize it, or pursue the “Nordic model” where it’s illegal to buy sex but not to sell it. All have drawbacks but you must pick one. Click here to read the rest.

Thomas Mulcair wants judges to take over Parliament. It’s a terrible idea that could hardly come at a worse time. Click here to read the rest.

A friend, no star-spangled admirer of all things American, just returned from Washington D.C. asking why our capital is so dingy compared to theirs. I fear the answer is a commitment to mediocrity, a passion for the bronze. Click here to read the rest.

You should never buy a man’s chicken until you’ve seen his bookshelf. At least so says Joel Salatin, a countercultural conservative organic farmer profiled in Michael Pollan’s brilliant The Omnivore’s Dilemma, because, “The way I produce a chicken is an extension of my worldview.” Surely that’s also true of political platforms. So I wonder what our politicians are reading these days. Click here to read the rest.

Can I complain about technology here? Not my usual curmudgeonly bit about how machinery can’t save our souls, social media are stupid and electric light killed the night sky. I mean why are we surrounded by so much fancy stuff doing so little? Click here to read the rest.