Fri Mar 28, 2008 – 10:18 am
This is an interesting read on “Britain’s Mean Streets.” Wonder how Canadian youths compare?
I’ve noticed that a lot of youths are jaded and cynical, their hellishly asinine cosmion of meaning offering little by way of hope. It seems to me that a lot of urban youth are lacking the interest, the opportunity, to […]
Thu Sep 27, 2007 – 7:12 am
Ever wonder why virtue in politics is so lacking in Canada? Andrew Coyne explains:
Why is Canadian politics so moronic? It isn’t that our politicians are especially stupid, as people: Stephen Harper, Stephane Dion and Michael Ignatieff are all intelligent men. They just behave like idiots. It’s institutional, a culture of vapidity that drags […]
Tue Sep 25, 2007 – 6:14 pm
Harper’s wooing of Quebec could do wonders for provincial rights; in some quarters, better described as provincial accountability for their own jurisdictions and raising the monies to service them.
If Harper now hopes to satisfy Quebec, provincial officials suggest he might agree to the province’s long-standing contention that it should be able to opt out […]
Tue Sep 25, 2007 – 6:02 pm
Danny Williams is vowing to pressure Harper to bring back the CCP. Too bad Harper doesn’t have any time for him, anymore.
“That’s something that whether he likes or dislikes Danny Williams, he should be doing,” Williams said after he made a campaign stop at the headquarters of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary.
“If you’re going to […]
Tue Sep 25, 2007 – 5:40 pm
Fanciful idealists often take for grant how exceptional a just liberal democratic regime can be. The present Governor-General of Australia, careered in the Australian army, offers some interesting insight into defending it in Malaysia. He also comments on why republicanism, in Australia, should not be taken lightly.
In 1999, Australians voted […]
Tue Sep 25, 2007 – 11:49 am
After some bruising commentary here and here, this interview with top American military brass really tugs at the heart.
‘Gays Too Precious To Risk In Combat,’ Says General
Wed Sep 19, 2007 – 6:04 pm
Over the weekend the Premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, wrote a letter to the Prime Minister requesting more federal seats for his province in the House of Commons.
The premier first broached the subject in June, but decided to renew his request for at least 10 more seats after hearing Harper’s own views on democracy […]
Wed Sep 19, 2007 – 8:01 am
I have the highest regard for Harper’s brave and principled foreign policy. Starting with his outspoken response to the attacks on Israel out of southern Lebanon, and his previous refusals to butter up to China the way his Liberal predecessors, at Maurice Strong’s urging (see also, this and this and, better yet, this), […]
Tue Sep 18, 2007 – 8:51 pm
With the passing of the General Director of the Canadian Opera Company, Canada lost a truly great adopted son, a self-made man of the arts. He built up a world class opera company, complete with a brand new opera house, and did it with minimal support from government. Barbara Amiel writes:
The widespread grief, […]
Tue Sep 18, 2007 – 8:03 pm
Beginning as a day like any other, who suspected such a victory would be so had?
Apparently it is possible to see the light of reason and disagree with a bullish practitioner of two-dude “husbandry,” that is, as long as you have no concern whatsoever for traditional institutions—somehow “legality†remains an important exception, magically sustaining itself—nor […]
