In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the recent revelation that some 38 federal government departments mishandled over 5,000 sensitive documents last year tells us nothing we didn’t already know, and possibly less.

“The common belief of the age [the 18th century] that human nature was forever the same referred essentially to the raw biological nature upon which the environment operated.”
Gordon S. Wood The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say the spat in France over whether to stick a monstrous modern spire on a restored Notre Dame cathedral reflects a civilization that, cut off from tradition, has lost the ability to believe in anything.

In my latest National Post column I say safe injection sites are too timid an answer to the harm done by the war on drugs.

“We must realize that human nature is about the most constant thing in the universe and that the essentials of human relationship do not change.”

Calvin Coolidge, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1925