In my latest Loonie Politics column I insist that the mainstream media didn’t do Canadians or themselves any favours during the truckers’ convoy crisis by failing to alert us that no adults were in charge of the government response.
“For all you good folks who think Islam is just Christianity in funny hats, or that Islam is the ‘Religion of Peace’, or that ‘we all worship the same God’ .../ ... nope. None of those are true in the slightest.”
Tweet from Willis Eschenbach 20/4/22 [https://twitter.com/WEschenbach/status/1516845836566626304] commenting on tweet about “Islamic Republic of Iran gives converts to Christianity five years prison for ‘deviant propaganda’ https://wp.me/p4hgqZ-14wY”
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the inquiry must avoid getting sidetracked into whether the convoy or the mandates were obnoxious and remain focused on whether invoking the Emergencies Act was justified because other forms of law enforcement were demonstrably non-existent, unavailable, or inadequate to the situation.
In my latest Epoch Times column I explain why we talk a lot less about free speech than we used to, and a lot less convincingly.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I ask why the legacy media are so reticent about covering suicide but so keen to report all the lurid details on (American) mass shootings
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say if heads don’t roll over the latest revelations from the Mass Casualty Commission then we have pretty much given up on truth and decency.
In my latest National Post column I explain how anyone who actually wants to have a sensible conversation on guns not a shouting match, or a virtue-signalling festival, could go about it.
“human behaviour ultimately derives from human volition – tastes, attitudes, values, and so on – and these aspects of volition in turn are either formed entirely by choices or are the product of biological or social processes that we cannot or will not change.... The one thing we cannot easily do, if we can do it at all, is change, by plan and systematically, the minds of men.”
James Q. Wilson Thinking About Crime