“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
On Wednesday I was on Alex Pierson’s show on Global News Radio 640, along with John Mraz, to discuss relief payments and job markets, COVID quarantine hotels, the notwithstanding clause and campaign finance, and more. A lively debate and fun was had by all.
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.
“an old family friend … a retired auto-shop teacher, the sort of guy who knows about wrenches, who even has views on wrenches.”
Kevin Bolger in Ottawa Citizen March 12, 1999
“during the International Year of Peace in 1986, a global commission of experts concluded that war was unnatural and humans themselves unwarlike! Unfortunately, innocent people get killed because of that kind of thinking. Many, especially in our universities, now are convinced that war always results from real, rather than perceived, grievances…”
Mackenzie Institute Newsletter April 2002