In my latest Epoch Times column I say Ontario’s supposed plan to save our “crumbling” health care system is a bunch of vague arm-waving wishes that the world worked differently than it does that couldn’t be less creative, bold or useful if the people in authority were being dull, timid and pointless on purpose.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I welcome the youth of tomorrow’s future back to the dismal reality of today’s schooling with an assignment to write an essay on what they’d really do if they were in charge, and why it would be so different from what they promised and expected to do.
“The nice thing about life is that you never know what is going to happen next. The problem with death is that you do know what is going to happen next. Nothing.”
Steve Bridge, a cryonics enthusiast, quoted in National Review September 2, 1996
In my latest National Post column I say the vehemence of the reaction to Pierre Poilievre, like his own rhetoric, reflects not the vast policy and philosophical differences in Canadian politics but their pettiness.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say people arguing over whether government in Canada is “broken” should devise a checklist of the attributes of a genuinely broken government and then see how many of them we’ve got.
In my latest Epoch Times column I repeat myself on purpose on the mindless decades-long repetition of obtuse calls to dump more money into our broken health care system instead of reforming it.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I draw on the wisdom of G.K. Chesterton to unravel the attitudes of populist and their opponents to accountability.
In my latest Epoch Times column I note the tragicomic contrast between the cosmic aspirations and vaulting self-regard of our politicians and their incapacity to discharge even basic functions of government.