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November 2023
Leave your high perch – and save your child’s life.
I know some couples who are household names in business and public service. They check all the boxes: virtuous without being virtue-signallers…
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Bob Ramsay
Asymmetric Antisemitism
Just as Hamas hides within the general population of Gaza, so do Canada’s antisemites walk among us. And since October 7th both these groups have come…
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Did you forget to remember that today is Remembrance Day?
It’s easy to do, especially in Canada where our military is starved into invisibility and seems to have missed the gender revolution completely. Sure…
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You better have a forensic fact-checker.
Two scandals this week show how the business of shame is always evolving. The first involves Buffy Sainte-Marie who seemed as Indigenous as can be. But…
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Bob Ramsay
October 2023
Allons enfants de la Patrie.
Do you think Jews should pay twice what non-Jews pay to attend the University of Toronto? Or Blacks twice as much as whites to go to Western? Or women…
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Who gets forgotten in giving season?
I got my first ‘holiday’ appeal for a donation this week. By the week before Jesus’ Birthday, our inboxes will be groaning with these appeals. But I’ve…
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A spade, a spade.
On October 7, George Achi, the CBC’s Director of Journalistic Standards and Practices and Public Trust, e-mailed all CBC journalists, urging them not to…
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Where Are Rivers People?
In Quebec, where the Magpie River in 2021 was recognized as a legal person with nine legal rights, including the right to flow, to maintain its…
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Bob Ramsay
September 2023
Familiarity breeds content.
Question: Do we enjoy things because they’re new or because they’re old? Answer: Yes. This is true in every endeavour, culture, life, and even secret…
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Why are there no prizes for promising old writers?
I asked myself this on Monday when I and 600 others gathered at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto to hear the British writer Robert Macfarlane give…
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Rich old white guys
I wish they had the grace to be content being all four of those things. But no. So many of them, especially in America, cast themselves not just as…
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