Saint Joseph, A Working Man

Saint Joseph has two ‘feast’ days in the universal Church, neither of which is technically a ‘feast’.  The first, on March 19th, is his principal day, celebrated as a full solemnity, usually in Lent (unless bumped into Easter by its falling during Holy Week).   Then there is today’s ‘optional memorial’ of Saint Joseph the […]

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Canadian Pot Heads

Next spring, Trudeau, the only sitting Member of Parliament ever to admit to smoking a joint (and hence breaking the law), along with his majority Liberal government, plan to legalize recreational marijuana in Canada (medicinal/therapeutic use is already legal here in Her Majesty’s Dominion); the ‘task force’ tasked with the weighty task of coming up […]

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Sam Against the Liberal Leviathan

Well, I have expanded my thoughts on young Sam Oosterhoff standing against the Liberal Leviathan, stumbling over our landscape and crushing just about everything in its wake. You can find the article for now on Crisis, and will be posted here soon.  The editor there gave me pause for thought:  Sam could not vote on […]

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Young Sam and Somalis

Another Islamic terrorist attack in America, this time in Ohio, where a Somali-born student, ‘self-radicalized’ according to reports, went on a rampage with his car, ramming into a crowd of his fellow students, before jumping out and stabbing two with a butcher knife. A campus police officer checking out a nearby gas leak showed up […]

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Youthful Ambition Pays Big

So Mr. Oosterfhoff has won the by-election, becoming the youngest MP ever to win a seat in the provincial legislature.  I wish him and his constituents all the best, but still stand by what I wrote, that there should be certain criteria for leadership, whether by custom or by law.  Ideally, we as voters would […]

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Conservative, Liberal, Vive La Difference?

I have an article on the ‘requirements for political office, posted this  morning on Crisis magazine.  Again, feel free to peruse, and I will post it here in a few days.   And speaking of ambition, there are so many contenders in the upcoming race for leadership of the Federal Conservative Party that I have […]

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Of Angels, Football and Moola

Well, some news stories have sort-of-happy endings.  A distraught father, after arguing with his wife, ‘kidnaped’ his two toddler sons, drove to a bridge, and jumped in with them in his arms, in an apparent attmpted murder-suicide.  Reports on the height of the bridge vary from 15 to 30 metres, which is survivable (I have […]

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