The Death Of Empathy
Empathy.
It’s a hard word to find in today’s constant turmoil over gun violence, psychotic white 20-somethings and the parade of virtue signallers on both sides of the debate.
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It’s a hard word to find in today’s constant turmoil over gun violence, psychotic white 20-somethings and the parade of virtue signallers on both sides of the debate.
Read MoreApparently the prime minister of Canada is not sold on Canada’s system of trial by jury. He’s not alone. Members of his cabinet also seem to think there’s a better way to dispense justice.
Read MoreWatching the film All The Presidents Men back in 1975 made me want to be a reporter. Seeing Richard Nixon hoisted by his own petard— and a couple of unheralded reporters— was thrilling.
Read Moren politics it’s the coin of the realm, the currency that keeps the wheels of the state spinning. The lubricant that allows journalism to function smoothly.
Read MoreFree speech, as the expression goes, is not for speech you agree with. It’s for speech you disagree with.
Read MoreIt’s rare that a single story can capture the tortured vanity of the modern-day Canada ruling class. But “Who cut my hijab?” will do until something better comes along.
Read MoreOur distraction du jour is the sudden revelation that Oprah Winfrey, the self-made billionaire conduit of moist feelings and product placement, may challenge Donald Trump, huckster suprème, for the presidency he won in 2016. Winfrey’s letter-perfect job application dropped last Sunday night at, appropriately, the Golden Globe Awards.
Read MoreEveryone has their goals for 2018. A cursory twirl around the internet will reveal any number of scribblers who’ve ventured a list calling for world peace and freedom to the oppressed masses.
My list is somewhat less ambitious. Here are simple requests that would make (my) world a better place in the next 12 months.
Read MoreAs the Chinese will readily tell you, Canada’s prime minister has no self-esteem issues. Justin Trudeau parades his moral certainty the way Charlton Heston brandished the Ten Commandments in the movies. It was Trudeau’s insistence on playing to his base on social issues rather than engaging the reality of Chinese diplomacy that scuttled the promised trade deals with the regime in Beijing.
Read MoreAfter the Alabama senatorial election, the prevailing media opinion is that the state is Yahoo Central, a boiling cauldron of humanity’s worst instincts. The highly regrettable candidacy of Roy Moore, 40-year-old charges of sexual indiscretion, six-shooters, confederate statues… the special election had all the clichés beloved of the coastal elites.
Read MoreThe Donald Trump/ Russia collusion case has only one certainty: Anyone who gets too close will get hurt. Ten months since Trump’s inauguration, the attempt by the stunned liberal left to negate his election has spun a web of deceit and confusion.
Read MoreNow appearing in a hell near you: Matt Lauer. The uber-successful NBC host of the Today Show has become the latest news notable to be removed from his job for sexual indiscretions. An unnamed NBC colleague accused Lauer of inappropriate sexual behaviour. The network also hinted at other unsavoury stuff in its press release announcing his abrupt firing.
Read MoreIt looks like the college faculty strike in Ontario is about to be footnoted in the slim tome of Kathleen Wynne’s Managerial Accomplishments. The premier of Canada’s most populous province has reportedly found a protocol to end this labour impasse after five weeks of college students playing hide the textbook. Students have returned to classes while their teachers and the government have submitted to mediation. Or meditation. Or maybe it’s medication.
Read MoreUnemployed quarterback Colin Kaepernick has been named GQ magazine's Citizen of the Year. How you receive this news will probably depend on whether you see him as a black martyr or an impressionable guy in the thrall of the grievance industry.
Read MoreDiversity is strength. At least, so says prime minister Justin Trudeau. But it appears that diversity is in the eye of the beholder. Among those with a unique slant on Trudeau’s Diversity is Lido Pimienta, a choleric Columbian-Canadian singer who advertises herself as the La Papessa. Pimienta is the self-appointed mayor of Safe Space, a bedroom community of one lodged between her ears.
Read MoreAnother day, another mass shooting int the US. The debate begins anew. Once again, we will hear voices advocating that a gun in hand is of great value as deterrence and protection. But just as with those who murder others with a gun, not all gun wielding individuals are created equal.
Read MoreWhile spinning through the channels at the higher end of my satellite package, I once again came across The Trotsky. The Canadian film (starring Jay Baruchel) imagines a young Montrealer rejecting his destiny as a schmatta salesman for the socialist identity of Leon Trotsky, one of the founders of the USSR.
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The lame tweet said it all for Mainstreet, the polling firm hired by PostNews to monitor the 2017 Calgary civic election
Read MoreI am re-reading the diaries of satirist David Sedaris, who is a very sly funny man. Hearing to his trenchant observations on people from the 1990s and 2000s reminded me that social critics never saw themselves at the centre of the culture. While, like Michaelangelo, artists worked for popes and princes, the artistic class revelled in having their best friends in low places.
Read MoreIt was inevitable. The prime minister who wanted to make everyone happy is suddenly finding out that the math of nice is hard. Very hard.
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