“Nothing in politics, the famous British historian F.S. Oliver remarked, is sadder than the ‘man of sterling character whose genius is so antipathetic to the particular emergency in which he finds himself as to stupefy his thoughts and paralyze his actions. He drifts to disaster, grappling blindfolded with forces which are beyond his comprehension, failing without really fighting. And yet had the difficulties been of some different order, they might have been much greater than they were, and he would have surmounted them victoriously.’”

David Frum Dead Right

In my latest Epoch Times column, I say 2023 feels like one of those years where trouble was plainly a-brewin’ but the storm had not yet really broken.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I write to Saint Nick saying never mind peace on Earth or fancy toys, I just want a Canadian government that isn’t smugly incompetent on every file.

In my latest National Post column I warn that our flagrant double standard in policing protests will end in tragedy.

“Without justice, what is the state but a great band of robbers?”

St. Augustine, quoted by Fr. Raymond J. de Souza in National Post April 29, 2023

In Western Standard I present a review for the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy of Stephen Bown’s gripping Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada, from colourful characters to poisonous whiskey to the crucial role of dynamite in building this nation and the West generally in the 19th century.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say the Prime Minister did the right thing, unlike various mayors and others, by attending a menorah ceremony, and in these divided times it’s especially important to acknowledge when people for whom you have low expectations act properly.

In my latest Epoch Times column I say the mercifully now reversed decision by Moncton city council to ditch their traditional Hanukkah acknowledgement (and a nativity scene) reflects a dangerously mistaken understanding of the place of religion in a free society.