In my latest National Post column I contrast various Ontario school boards’ grudging admission that some misguided students might celebrate the Queen with their mandatory embrace of every progressive occasion or pseudo-occasion.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the Trudeau administration’s plan to fix the cost of living crisis by more government handouts is a classic case of trying to dig your way out of a hole
“It was my survival instinct and force of character which saved me. I never panicked, became stressed or cried. I was even singing. I went there after a little bout of depression but when I found myself suddenly trapped and in a survival situation, everything changed.”
A man found alive after five weeks trapped in underground caves in southwestern France, who survived by eating rotten wood and clay, quoted in Globe & Mail January 24, 2005.
‘‘My very dear sons, it is better never to undertake any high enterprise than to abandon it when once begun….’”
Pope Gregory, in reply to an appeal from St. Augustine of Canterbury and others to be excused from attempting to evangelize the English nation because “they were appalled at the idea of going to a barbarous, fierce, and pagan nation, of whose very language they were ignorant”, quoted in Bede A History of the English Church and People
“Re the notion that we don’t need democracy because God gave us shari’a, approving of democracy despite everything means respecting humans sufficiently to respect even their errors, as well as recognizing that your own are likely to be no less serious for being less evident to you.”
Another of mine, from December 20, 2001
“Look, I love [his] work. But have you seen the man trying to communicate without a script? He’s about as articulate as a bag of potato chips. Warren Beatty couldn’t win a debate with a mime.”
Richard Roper in the Chicago Sun-Times regarding a potential Beatty presidential run quoted in Globe & Mail September 7, 1999
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say Pierre Poilievre’s overwhelming victory in the Conservative leadership contest, and Jean Charest’s hollow showing, demonstrates yet again that snobbery is no antidote to populism.
“He offers a remarkable tribute to the almost forgotten truth that man is never genuinely at home except in goodness, that artistic emotions can no more refresh the nature than a liqueur can quench the thirst.’”
G.K. Chesterton (on Aleister Crowley, whose doctrines he loathed and the one person he refused to debate, but with regard to his book The Soul of Osiris), quoted by Chris Chan in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #2 (Nov.-Dec. 2021)