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John Robson
True Canadian values for a complex world
Words Worth Noting - August 19, 2023

“By his own admission, [actor Stephen] Fry can’t dance and couldn’t carry a tune if it had handles.”

Rod Dreher in National Review May 31, 1999

Arts & culture, Famous quotes, HumourJohn RobsonAugust 19, 2023
Words Worth Noting - August 18, 2023

“Laugh while you can still breathe.”

Another of mine, from March 2, 1989.

Famous quotes, Life, Philosophy, ReligionJohn RobsonAugust 18, 2023
Memo to Anand: How to cut without cutting... or getting fired

In my latest Loonie Politics column, I offer unsolicited advice from the dark side to the new Treasury Board President on how not to incur the wrath of Trudeau, and wish her luck because she’s going to need it.

Budget, Columns, Climate change, Economics, Global warming, Government, Health care, History, International, Loonie Politics, Politics, Social policyJohn RobsonAugust 17, 2023
Words Worth Noting - August 17, 2023

“Those who blame everything on the Treaty of Versailles, in 1919, equally miss the point: no Versailles could ‘justify’ the rise of Nazism, which had much deeper causes, as well as much shallower.”

David Warren in Ottawa Citizen June 7, 2003

Famous quotes, History, International, Military, World War I, World War IIJohn RobsonAugust 17, 2023
It's houses all the way down

In my latest National Post column I ridicule the notion that Canada must bring in half a million immigrants a year to build homes for the half-million immigrants we bring in a year to build homes for all the immigrants.

Arts & culture, Columns, Economics, Environment, Family and Gender, Government, History, National Post, Politics, Social policy, Values, World War IJohn RobsonAugust 16, 2023
Words Worth Noting - August 16, 2023

“All vulgar errors arise from education. The uneducated are generally right: the badly educated are always wrong.”

G.K. Chesterton in New Witness August 20, 1914, quoted in standalone boxed quotations headed “Education” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #2 (Nov.-Dec. 2021)

Education, Famous quotes, Life, Philosophy, ReligionJohn RobsonAugust 16, 2023
Words Worth Noting - August 15, 2023

“Several excuses are always less convincing than one.”

Aldous Huxley, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail March 18, 2005

Arts & culture, Famous quotes, LifeJohn RobsonAugust 15, 2023
Intolerance is the new inclusion

In my latest Epoch Times column I take aim at Orwellian social justice as is unjust, antisocial and un-Canadian.

Arts & culture, Columns, Constitution, Education, Epoch Times, Family and Gender, Government, History, Infrastructure, Language, Magna Carta, Modernity, Politics, Religion, Social policy, ValuesJohn RobsonAugust 14, 2023
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