Author: Warren

 One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. Twenty years ago right about now, my brother Kevin called me from Kingston General Hospital to tell me that our father

Their heroes take hostages. So, now, they’re doing likewise. Right now, today, that’s what us happening at California State University in Los Angeles: a pro-Hamas gang – after illegally occupying university property for weeks – have taken hostages. As I write this, somewhere between 50 and 100 “protestors” have blocked

Fifty thousand people. Fifty thousand! By any standard, that’s a lot. That’s about the population of Belleville, Ont. or Saint-Hyacinthe, Que.! This week’s Walk for Israel was perhaps the biggest event of its type – ever. Bigger than the Covid-era protests, bigger than the Black Lives Matter rallies, bigger –

Good guys: 2.  Bad guys: 2. No, that’s not a statistical summary of the Stanley Cup Final.  The Edmonton Oilers and the Florida Panthers are just getting started. It is, however, a fair summary of the past week.  And, as with just about every single week since October 7, there has been a confrontation

And never forget that the fight against hatred isn’t over.

You’re Canadian. You have a regular, normal life. Imagine what it feels like when someone throws a bomb at your place of worship. Imagine that. It’s hard to, isn’t it? Of course it is. This is Canada, not some place in the Middle East. Maybe you don’t go to church.