“Somewhere there’s a headlight looking for this deer.”

Laura Peck (on Gilles Duceppe on TV) in National Post May 25, 2004

In my latest Epoch Times column I point out that despite all the inane rhetoric about keeping out private health care as intolerable and un-Canadian, our system depends on it to function while doing its inept best to suppress it.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I condemn Doug Ford, and anyone who supports his restrictions on political advocacy spending, for praising free speech in theory while suppressing it in practice.

In my latest National Post column I say “This government doesn’t do hard” could become our new national motto as a vast cast of characters across the executive, legislative and judicial branches avoids thinking about difficult choices from COVID to national security and the budget.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say we can’t tell whether Quebec is “a nation” until we decide what that term means… and while we’re at it maybe we should try to figure out whether Canada still fits the definition.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say it’s time to take a frank look at what worked and what didn’t in our response to SARS-CoV-2, with the “shut up and mask” consensus that no one should ask questions in a crisis definitely in the latter category.

“How thinkest thou that I rule this people? I have but a regiment of guards to do my bidding, therefore it is not by force. It is by terror. My empire is of the imagination. Once in a generation mayhap I do as I have done but now, and slay a score by torture.”

“She” (to the narrator) in H. Rider Haggard She

“There is a type of person who perpetually seeks to excuse himself for ever having been born.”

Helmut Schoeck Envy