May’s real winner was Charles, who seemed mostly relieved but slightly overwhelmed by his coronation and being crowned next to his queen, Camilla. Theirs is a great love story for our time—an anti-fairy tale romance, as all the great love stories are
Between superannuated supremes and eminent Canadians, our federal politics can sometimes feel like a collegial class of old friends swapping favours and extending to each other a presumption of trust and goodwill that very few ordinary Canadians think they deserve.
Of course it’s bad, but honestly I was expecting worse. I was almost relieved when it turned out to be just offensively inoffensive, rather than actively offensive.
Old habits die hard, apparently. While it may not be as ubiquitous a habit as it once was, smoking cigarettes appears to be the new retro, taboo-flouting trend of Gen Z’s It crowd.
We live in the valley between civilisations, in the shadow of a peak still visible behind us but unable yet to see the peak in front of us. This should not be cause for despair. Although the history of man has been the story of the rise and fall of civilisations, the most important thing is that civilisation has never yet died out altogether; it has always been preserved somewhere.
Ditch the Trudeau name. Cut all ties with the Trudeau family. Give the tainted money to a charity serving human rights violations in China. And then step aside so that a new board and new management can take over.
A new survery reflects the free fall the West is hurtling down. A potent mixture of generational change, prosperity and technology, and declining education are leading to us feeling more lost than ever.
Why, given that the ChiComs are betting that teenage want is stronger than parental will, doesn’t Trudeau give all Canadian parents a similar excuse to do the right thing by banning the app outright, or at least making it inaccessible to children?
The revised Safe Third Country Agreement is a good start, but there are still too many loopholes and the revised STCA will require determined enforcement if it is going to be the deterrent that both countries hope it will be.
The eminently special David Johnston may be expert in many things, but he is not an expert in the areas relevant to this investigation. The problem here is not Johnston, it’s the whole class, nay the very idea, of “eminent Canadians”.
