One of the most famous opening lines from a novel is from Dickens: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, […]
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There are a number of diagnosed personality disorders, covering a broad range of traits, that contribute to social toxicity. They are grouped into three categories – clusters A, B, and C, with cluster B disorders being the most destructive. Cluster B includes the psychopaths, malignant narcissists and machiavellian types. A common term applied to this
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In an interview with the New York Times shortly after being elected in 2015, Justin Trudeau described Canada as a “post-national state” with “no core identity, no mainstream”. Most people considered this a largely meaningless, if somewhat oddly phrased comment from a man still trying to find his footing in Canada’s highest office. Last week,
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There is a witty one liner that “There are two types of people in the world: Those who divide the people in the world into two types, and those who don’t” often attributed to Robert Benchley. Other variations also exist, like “There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who are wise, and
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It is hard to believe that it was way back in November 2022 that Pierre Poilievre, during a press conference, first claimed that “it feels like everything is broken in this country right now.” Poilievre never really defined what “everything” included or excluded, though he later posted “We can fix it” on social media with
It’s The U.S. That’s Broken, Not Canada Read More »
You may be familiar with the Serenity Prayer: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.” American culture and movies, which dominate Canadian culture as well, tend to focus on the second part – having the courage to
Electoral Reform Is Dead! Long Live Electoral Reform! Read More »
Brian Graff responds to Eric Lombardi’s piece “The death of merit, the birth of aristocracy, and Canada’s quiet descent into neofeudalism”, originally published in The Hub. Rube Goldberg was a famous cartoonist in the 1930s who created visions of crazy complicated machines that did simple tasks in an absurd, complex and roundabout way. I thought
Death Of Merit In Canada? Eric Lombardi Misses The Target Read More »
Imagine, if you will: you are driving back from a Christmas party with friends on December 23rd, the day before Christmas Eve. It has been an academically challenging semester, and you really enjoyed spending time destressing during an evening chatting with friends. You drop off a friend who lives close by you – choosing to
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Short lived were the days of the mid-2010s where wokeness could be portrayed as a new phenomenon mostly confined to college campuses. Conservatives realized it wasn’t true that the blue-haired Social Justice Warriors of viral YouTube clips would soon be meeting ‘the real world’, with its lack of safe spaces – ‘the real world’ was
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Poilievre’s Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) currently has the greatest political opportunity to reform immigration since it started to work against the interests of the people decades ago. With immigration so obviously the cause of the decline in living standards that even 62% of immigrants want to reduce it, Poilievere’s patriotic supporters can only defend
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