In my latest National Post column I say we all lost the 2019 Canadian federal election.

Tickets are available via Eventbrite here.

The CCMF-O is an inclusive, safe place in Ottawa-Gatineau where men and boys can go when they need help, including therapy and counseling, peer support, a legal clinic, fathering programs, mentorship and support services for male victims of trauma and violence.

This year’s Gala will feature Joe Enberg’s tale of hardship and recovery, as well as updates on the Centre’s work, a fine buffet and the Capital City Chorus Barbershop Quartet, as well as a silent and live auction to assist in funding the Centre for the coming year.

If you want to know why our work is important, watch this testimonial video from men who’ve benefited from having a safe place to turn to when they need one.

“I grant you that my children need their meals balanced…. My own feeling, however, is that they need something else even more. They need to have their tastes unbalanced: to have them skewed, driven off dead center, and fastened firmly on the astonishing oddness of the world.”

Robert Capon The Supper of the Lamb

In my latest National Post column I list the sorts of questions journalists should be asking party leaders in the current federal election if they (politicians or journalists) thought elections were a time to discuss serious issues seriously.

In my latest National Post column I say the real scandal in Quebec politics isn’t that too few female legislators are in the pocket of the executive, it’s that too many legislators of all kinds are.

“Wherever you see a culture in decline, that’s lost its vision or sense of the meaning of life, its people always turn to sexuality in the search for meaning. Sexual pleasures are always intense, and when they get caught up in the search for meaning - when they become a substitute for real meaning, they become compulsive and addictive.”

Psychiatrist Jeffrey Satinover, quoted in British Columbia Report December 30, 1996