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Ignominy. Humiliation. Betrayal.
Tehran has prevailed. Israel is in a state of shock. The world wonders, what the hell?
I’m still working away at that project for the National Post I mentioned in my last newsletter, the inquiry that’s causing the second hiatus in as many...
Remembering the Khalistani Terror
I’m away on yet another project, which is why there was no column from me in the National Post this past week. Not quite as exhausting as the last project and the Real Story series that wrapped up this past Monday, but it’s taking a great d...
They would jail you for remembering
In China, they'll jail you for remembering Tiananmen. In Canada, they'd jail you for remembering the national psychosis induced by the state and the media in 2021.
Inshallah, this week I’ll be back to all those other stories that need atte...
Disremembering Tiananmen
My National Post column this week was going to be a kind of situation report, a stock-taking, 37 years after the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen massacres that crushed a non-violent democratic uprising in China.
What I would have touched on:
Tiana...
The enduring enfeeblements of 'reconciliation'
It wasn't supposed to turn out like this, but it has and it can't go on.
I’ve done my best. For the past five years, I’ve chronicled this national delirium trundling along like a train headed straight to a collapsed trellis bridge over a d...
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