In my latest National Post column I say classes where students of one race only are taught material by authors of once race only by teachers of one race only is still segregation and still wrong practically and morally.
On June 22 I was on Global News Radio 640 to discuss China’s push to investigate Canada for human rights violations, and the Prime Minister’s surprising but largely commendable pushback.
In 1890 Swedish economist Knut Wicksell “argued that if governments ran deficits then citizens were not being clear information about the costs and benefits of programmes which they were being asked to support as voters… If much of the cost could be transferred to a subsequent generation, citizens would select more government expenditure than if they had to carry the true costs of the benefits they received. This commitment to a balanced budget was not as naïve or rigid as some modern commentators like to suggest.”
Roger Douglas Unfinished Business
“Playwright Neil Simon once described one of his characters as so uptight he even had clenched hair.”
Mary Janigan in Maclean’s April 26, 2004
In my latest Epoch Times column I say if we cancel Canada Day, and Canada, because we can’t see that an open society that admits mistakes beats the alternatives hollow, we’ll learn it the hard way.
“To know how to wait is the great secret of success.”
Joseph de Maistre, quoted (among others) by https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/974934-to-know-how-to-wait-is-the-great-secret-of
“Generally speaking, the ordinary man should be content with the terrible secret that men are men – which is another way of saying that they are brothers.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Oct. 8, 1910, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #5 (March 2004)
“A casual visitor might suppose this place to be a Temple dedicated to the Genius of Seediness.”
Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers (specifically re the offices of the Commissioners of the Insolvent Court)