On June 16 I was on Global News Radio 640 with Alex Pierson and John Mraz to discuss various current public affairs follies.
On Tuesday I joined Alex Pierson to discuss the ugly mix of ideological and partisan dysfunction behind MP Jenica Atwin’s decision to leave the Green Party for the welcoming Liberals over extreme anti-Israel views she then suddenly claimed she’d never held.
“The Declaration of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in history. It meant nothing more nor less than that from then on Man, and not God’s command or the customs of history, should be the source of Law.”
Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism
On the Crown & Crozier podcast I discuss Magna Carta, church, state and you.
“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.