In my latest National Post column I ask what a government is even for if legal permission for the Kinder Morgan pipeline project doesn't mean it's possible to build it.
The book "A Right to Arms", companion volume to our 2016 documentary on Canadians' historic right to self-defence, is now available through my online store. Click here to order a copy.
In my latest National Post column I say justified dismay at school shootings shouldn't prevent us from thinking clearly about what will or won't help stop them.
"I am put in mind of a little book, titled Manners, that my own grandmother gave me as a child…. printed in 1912…. which I have sadly misplaced… good for a laugh when I was a teenager…. It was a noble little book, as I came to see later…. Implicit within every statement in the book was a conception of civilization, an aspiration to raise ourselves up. Not simply to ‘get ahead,’ but to rise out of the slovenly condition of being barbaric."
David Warren in Ottawa Citizen April 9, 2002 [reflecting on Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother]