In my latest Epoch Times column I ask politicians, activists and citizens to think of something, anything, that governments in Canada should just stop doing, or trying to, because it’s not a legitimate state function or because they’re too overloaded just now to tackle that thing as well. If nobody can thing of even one, I don’t just know we have a problem, I know what it is.
“Vivienne Westwood, influential fashion maverick, dies at 81/ Vivienne Westwood, an influential fashion maverick who played a key role in the punk movement, died Thursday at 81.”
Subject line/headline and text of email teaser from “NBC News Top Stories” December 29, 2022 [oh, that’s original a fashion maverick, whatever will they think of next, to shock the bourgeoisie?]
“The #UCP has no connection to the PCs. They’re a coalition of the religious & libertarian right. So it’s a coalition of anger & resentment. If you don’t have a chip on your shoulder you don’t belong – the least attractive place to be for balanced, rational people.”
Complete text of tweet by Canadian radio personality Charles Adler November 26, 2022 [assuming every balanced, rational person knows anger, resentment or both are the foundation of faith]
“It is needless to say that the journalists do not always tell the truth about the politicians. What surprises me is that so very often, it would seem, they do not even know the truth about them.”
G. K. Chesterton in New Witness Jan. 28, 1920 quoted in “Chesterton For Today” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #2 (November-December 2021)
“‘It’s corn!,’ ‘Dark Brandon’ and ‘girl explaining’: A look at the most notable memes of 2022”
Subject line/hed on email teaser from “NBC News Stop Stories” 23/12/22 [and noteworthy to me because I totally missed all three and wasn’t sorry]
In my latest Loonie Politics column I mock policymakers and pundits who say the laws of economics have changed because they haven’t but these trendy faddists thought they had.
“We do not consider this a credible explanation.”
The BBC when Chinese authorities detained, handcuffed and beat up one of their journalists “for his own good in case he caught Covid from the crowd” November 28, 2022 (https://twitter.com/BBCNewsPR/status/1597000489513537536).
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the big problem with Canada’s federal ethics commissioner isn’t the Liberals making a mockery of the post, it’s that we’re trying to substitute technical expertise for character.