While carrying on the west coast farmer’s interminable crusade against the scourge of the Himalayan blackberry, I listened to a radio call-in show on the recent announcement that average monthly rent in Canada has soared to $2,200 – a new record. One by one, callers described the harrowing, stressful housing situations in which they find […]
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DEI, wokeness, critical race theory, systemic racism, intersectionality and cultural appropriation. Ten or twenty years ago, most of these terms were unknown, and some only existed inside academia or very limited circles of left-wing intellectuals. Identity politics has since come to the fore. Before the millenium, just about the only term that was in common
Yascha Mounk’s Book On “Wokeness” Is Eye-Opening Read More »
It is endlessly ironic that George Orwell’s 1984 is still assigned reading in Canadian high schools. If students make it to Chapter Five of this classic dystopian novel, they read the following: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed,
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Canada’s old elites built up the grand railway hotels, founded businesses empires that spanned generations, and created family estates with neat hedgerows and sloping lawns. On a late summer afternoon, they could be seen taking tea at the Empress in the Victoria Harbour. Their faults included arrogance and self-righteousness, and their sense of aristocratic virtue
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