“History presents us with two kinds of leaders, those who did more harm than good, and those whose names we can’t remember.”

David Warren in Ottawa Citizen January 2, 2000

In my latest Epoch Times column I ask why even the politicians ferociously opposed to the carbon tax start by insisting that it’s necessary instead of challenging the pseudoscience behind global warming alarmism.

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”

Edward R. Murrow according to an email from a friend, also supported here: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/39025-a-nation-of-sheep-will-beget-a-government-of-wolves

“For an aristocracy is always progressive; it is a form of going the pace. Their parties grow later and later at night; for they are trying to live to-morrow.”

G.K. Chesterton What’s Wrong with the World

“Doing things and denouncing things are both quite easy, as compared with thinking about them.”

G.K. Chesterton, “On Keeping Your Hair On,” in Sidelights, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #5 (March 2006)

“in Nisga’a culture, we believe that this pole is alive with the spirit of our ancestors.”

An aboriginal chief regarding a totem pole repatriated from a Scottish museum, quoted in National Post August 29, 2023

“Carlotta was the kind of town where they spelled trouble t-r-u-b-i-l and if you tried to correct them they killed you.”

Rigby Reardon [played by Steve Martin] in Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the fiscally reckless Ontario budget is more proof that the politicians can barely be bothered going through the motions of governing responsibly any more.