There is nothing new under the sun — and certainly not disagreement over a holiday that already in the 1860s had its champions and detractors.
Category: Canada
Posts about the politics, people and news events of Canada.
Gone are the days when a political party might actually have something to fight for or about, such as proletariat revolution or tooth-and-claw capitalism. It’s three parties for the middle class, comrade. So who do you think has the nicest suit?
THE DATE WAS Thursday February 15, 2007, and I was on my way to a…
THERE WERE ALREADY a lot of reasons I found Justin Trudeau untakeable when he recently…
MEET BRUCE CARSON, as early as the 1970s a compulsive thief and fraudster and, in…
THE CURRENCY of the word outpouring was notable this week: over at the National Post,…
AS THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION Commission of Canada hosts its national event this week, in…
WINNIPEG FREE PRESS reported this week that Manitoba Aboriginal Affairs Minister Eric Robinson will host…
IT CAN BE no mere coincidence that Julian Fantino’s 2007 hardboiled memoir, Duty: The Life…
FOR FAR LONGER than it was defensible to do so, the rabble and occupy elements…
ROUGHLY THREE YEARS ago, on a visit to the office of then Senator Consiglio Di…
IT WAS separation from his wife which in 1974 brought the Welsh political columnist Alan…
Mike Duffy proved himself to be effective on the after-dinner speech-and-shakedown circuit, and in exchange…
WITH THOMAS FLANAGAN and William Whatcott so heavily in the news, section 2(b) of the…
RISING BY NECESSITY from the ash of its discredited predecessor, the United Nations on the…
WAYNE K. SPEAR 