In our Columnist section so far this week:
Rebecca Hagelin reveals her soft side with the story of Andrea Yaeger, the former tennis star who started the Silver Lining Foundation, which helps kids struggling with cancer, and some of the kids who are such an inspiration to all of us.
[…] What a lesson in perspective! When we think of all the relatively minor problems we face each day—so-and-so didn’t return my phone call, my cake didn’t turn out just right, I’m running late for a certain meeting, etc.—it’s sobering to think about these children, who would gladly change places with most of us and our so-called big problems. And to think that many of these children themselves have the grace to take a big-picture view of their problems is startling. […]
Barbara Kay is at her best this week in a beautifully-written piece about the blubbering Svend Robinsons of Canada, and how we Canadians really need to get over it. Here’s a snippet (hard to choose the best):
[…] Svend’s public aspect is kitsch incarnate. He’s not only a ready blubberer himself, but an inspiration to teariness in others, as he constantly reminds us (Google Svend Robinson, tears). He made sure to inform us he cried when attending the 1999 suicide of MS sufferer Sue Rodriguez; and that he watched the gay marriage vote this past July “with tears of joy flowing down my cheeks.” He most recently cried when informing a reporter that a native woman told her son, in his presence, that he was “a good man” (the obliging Globe reporter included the tears as part of the story). And of course he cried us a river when admitting he took the ring. […]
Gerald Hayes is back with a goodie on those catchy slogans invented by the left, which if you look at them actually mean nothing—or worse.
Back in the pre-internet days when he was not dodging dinosaurs and living in his cave, George Orwell was able to see right to the heart of leftist core beliefs. One of these beliefs is the use of catchy sounding, yet utterly inane slogans like: Two legs good, four legs bad!
Today we are bombarded with them day and night: “No blood for Oil!”, “Tax-cuts for the rich”, “Sustainable Development”, “Make gay-love, not war”, and so on. It’s as if there is a People’s Ministry of Slogans out there replete with hard working gnomes who pump these out day and night. I suspect that the Ministry is hidden in the basement of Hallmark.
Paul Jackson puts our Ambassador to the U.S. in his rightful place.
I was in the midst of Paul’s Cellucci’s reminiscences about his stint as American ambassador to Ottawa when Canada’s own ambassador to Washington, Frank McKenna described the U.S. political system as “dysfunctional.”
Well, McKenna’s a Liberal, so any system in which every elected individual gets a say, isn’t browbeaten and bullied into toeing the party line, and in which all power doesn’t reside in the hands of the equivalent of the prime minister might well seem unsatisfactory to someone like the former New Brunswick premier. […]
And Peter Gnanapragasam takes on the myth which is the left’s desperate plea that modern progressive Canadians drop all that stupid religion and adhere to some unwritten “separation of church and state” in Canada. I say God help us —-literally, in “keep[ing] our land, glorious and free”!
One of the greatest fallacies the Canadian left and their media cohorts have propagandized is the myth of separation of church and state. What they really mean, of course, is that government must have the ability to dictate and censure what is preached at the pulpits of a nation’s churches or what is believed by the churches’ faithful. They also are quick to reproof any church leaders who might call for action against some government policies as that would mean, from the leftist viewpoint, a breach between the separation of church and state.
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