In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the idea of national strategies where governments reform citizens is bad, including if one targets “Islamophobia”.
On Global News Radio 640 with Alex Pierson and John Mraz I discussed Ontario’s flirtation with anti-racist math, the right of private businesses to set their own policies on proof of vaccination, and complaints about a new Governor General whose bilingualism doesn’t involve French.
In my latest National Post column I express enthusiasm for freedom in Cuba… and Canada.
In The Interim I reflect on classic books on the vital topic of citizenship only to realize I can’t think of any.
“Give your brain as much attention as you do your hair and you'll be a thousand times better off.”
Malcolm X (widely quoted online; I was first alerted to it in a paraphrase in the Ottawa Citizen March 7, 1999)
“I hate a man who swallows [food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.”
Charles Lamb, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail December 20, 2002
In my latest National Post column I say classes where students of one race only are taught material by authors of once race only by teachers of one race only is still segregation and still wrong practically and morally.
“an old family friend … a retired auto-shop teacher, the sort of guy who knows about wrenches, who even has views on wrenches.”
Kevin Bolger in Ottawa Citizen March 12, 1999