At times like this, you’re sure glad Barack Obama is a uniter, not adivider, and used to be a professor of constitutional law. Think what harm a sneering hack in the White House might do at this worrisome juncture in America’s fiscal affairs.
Oh great. Last March the Quebec government adopted expensive new rules for seniors’ residences that are driving them out of business and leaving their elderly customers out of luck. And the clever politicians and bureaucrats never saw it coming. Click here to read the rest.
For Christians Easter Sunday is an eerie pause between Good Friday’s tumult and the even greater upheaval of Easter Monday, so quiet, C.S. Lewis says in the Narnia Chronicles, “you feel as if nothing was ever going to happen again.” For non-Christians it’s a chance to hunt coloured eggs and wonder idly whether trading a cosmic message of redemption for a bunny made of bad-tasting chocolate was quite the deal it seemed at the time. And whether there isn’t something to be said for the occasional unnaturally quiet day. Click here to read the rest.
[Correction: This column contains a stupid mistake. Christians of course believe the Resurrection occurred on Sunday not Monday. Mea culpa.]
Once again "budget day caused a huge hoo hah in Ottawa that left the rest of the country cold. But once again it did not produce a budget. Click here to read the rest.
So-called "evidence-based decision-making" is very popular these days. Actual evidence is rather less so. Especially of unwelcome things like the collapse of Britain's National Health Service on which ours is modelled. Since theirs is two decades older it offers a troubling preview of what we can expect around 2033. Click here to read the rest.