In my latest C2C Journal article I said the people tearing down statues of Sir John A. Macdonald have an even greater need to learn humility from history than the rest of us.
In my latest National Post column I say the Ottawa tornado is a worrying reminder of how fragile our modern high-tech just-in-time way of life really is.
"There’s an ancient saying: 'The world would be a clean place if we each swept in front of our own doorsteps.'"
Ottawa psychotherapist Dawn Brown quoted by Linda Mondoux in Ottawa Citizen November 22, 2006
In my latest National Post column I say it’s odd for people claiming to stand against Trump-style divisive politics to rant and rave about Doug Ford as a dictator trampling our rights.
“Winston had 10 ideas every day, only one of which was good, and he did not know which it was."
General Sir Alan Brooke, Winston Churchill’s chief of staff, quoted by John Keegan in National Post August 29, 2002
"If there are commands of God, then there must be rights of man."
G.K. Chesterton in “The Empire of the Insect” in What’s Wrong with the World, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 12 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2009).
In my latest Loonie Politics piece I say the real question about shrinking Toronto City Council is why people who call Doug Ford an evil rights-hating maniac for invoking the Notwithstanding Clause to protect legislative authority aren’t even slightly concerned about judges routinely invoking Section 1 of the Charter to infringe fundamental rights like free speech.
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