In my latest National Post column I warn that our flagrant double standard in policing protests will end in tragedy.
“Goodness should be a factor. Greatness is more than a matter of magnitude – it should have a direction, too.”
David Reevely re the CBC’s Greatest Canadian and similar things in the UK, Germany and South Africa in Ottawa Citizen October 24, 2004
“Without justice, what is the state but a great band of robbers?”
St. Augustine, quoted by Fr. Raymond J. de Souza in National Post April 29, 2023
“One of these days is none of these days.”
“English saying” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail June 6, 2013
In Western Standard I present a review for the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy of Stephen Bown’s gripping Dominion: The Railway and the Rise of Canada, from colourful characters to poisonous whiskey to the crucial role of dynamite in building this nation and the West generally in the 19th century.
“The impossible is often the untried.”
Irish footballer Jim Goodwin, widely quoted online for instance at https://www.quotes.net/quote/13410
“The Satanic Temple is celebrating 10 years of existence with its SatanCon convention in Boston this weekend, but it's not what you probably think. The organization is as much a theater of American satire as it is a place for believers. The temple, not be confused with the Satanic Church, does not formally deify Satan as the personification of evil, but rather it sees him as a literary character, a necessary rebel, while mocking traditional religion and calling out government’s embrace of institutions like the Catholic Church, co-founder Malcolm Jarry said. ‘They believe in a literary representation of Satan,’ Jarry said of the temple’s estimated 700,000 members around the world. ‘It’s a heroic figure who fights against tyrannical authority and for humanity, even if it’s a losing battle.’... The weekend convention at the Boston Marriott Copley Place is sold out, temple organizers say, boasting that it will be the largest satanic gathering in history. The convention, which is scheduled to include the temple's rituals, a marketplace and a wedding chapel, also caps a successful 10 years for the organization, symbolically based in a Victorian house in Salem, Massachusetts, Jarry said.... He described the typical temple member as ‘anyone who is nonconforming’ and those who are ‘marginalized people.’ These satanists support women's shelters, highway cleanup and addiction recovery centers, he said. A big issue for the temple is abortion rights. It recently launched a telehealth clinic in New Mexico that it says provides abortion medication via mail.”
NBC April 25, 2023
In 14th century the English called syphilis “the malady of France” and the French called it “la maladie d’Angleterre”
Chronicles magazine July 1991