And if they couldn’t get a bank loan, why am I, a taxpayer, assuming the risk of a small business loan?

From last night, 'Beware predictions of a Senate-created constitutional crisis' emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/beware-predi…

FIRST READING: How a Trudeau-appointed Senate could blockade a future Poilievre government nationalpost.com/opinion/how-a-…

“When I warned [the French] that Britain would fight on alone, whatever they did,

Their Generals told their Prime Minister and his divided cabinet: ‘In three weeks, England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.

‘Some chicken….Some neck!’ ”

- Winston Churchill, 30th

Let's hope they realise what that praxis would mean in practice. It would be unconstitutional and, worse, seriously dangerous. A chamber of Trudeau appointees blocking a newly elected government's agenda would make the Freedom Convoy look like a parish picnic.

.Howard Anglin and Ray Pennings: Canada is careening towards a constitutional crisis in the Senate

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The bland generic crap of new London.

Butter should be cold and hard, scraped across the abrasive ridges of crusty bread or dry toast. Spreadable butter is frivolous decadence.

Rex once told me that despite hosting one of the flagship radio shows for 21 years, the head of CBC radio never once spoke to him, and when he retired his farewell gift was a $20 Starbucks gift card. He seemed baffled and amused, but mostly happy to have a great anecdote. RIP.

Torn. I’ve long been a supporter of Hawaiian independence (and the restoration of the Hawaiian monarchy—a pineapple Jacobite).

There’s no conflict between supporting Israel’s right to exist securely and supporting the Keōua nui restoration.

Paul Kingsnorth is always worth reading, but this short piece is especially lovely. I was on a think tank panel recently to discuss “Overlooked Topics in Canada Today,” one of which was death. I wish I’d read this before.

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Man is an agonistic animal, part 7,563. Eliminate want, and we will struggle against abundance; eliminate social offences, and we will invent new ones. Peace and order require more than prosperity, they require discipline—internal or external.

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That’s quite a view. As an aside all of these (gorgeous) 18th & 19th century gothic towers would today be condemned as “pastiche” as they reuse design patterns from a previous age. Thank heavens our predecessors were less shackled by such destructive & “mind-forged manacles”

Tocqueville, cutting certain modern historians to the quick.

Read about how a local town with our support is trying to pre-approve plots for over 900 beautiful homes in their community and the main challenge is coming from …. (checks notes) the local planning authority.

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