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Writer | Classicist | Historian of Iran | Arabisant | https://t.co/Qd1yAHzurz…
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Here is an EPIC new review of In Defense of Civilization by David Marks Shribman for the Literary Review of Canada (@reviewcanada). Huge! https://t.co/9oWRzA6UMN
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Demagoguery. Tyranny. War. Pandemic. Famine. Gun violence. Climate change. Terrorism. Nuclear threats. Racism. Repression. The dreary parade of the world’s woes marches on, even in an era of relative...
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From rugby forward and ice hockey defenseman to scribbler, quite the journey.
@WDiminishment @alexbrown17 @NVanCaroline @GeoffRuss3 @iamrobinskies Holy shit Geoff Russ is a beast haha
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Enough. This is immoral and insane.
And a 5-to-4 majority of the Supreme Court of Canada has now ruled that a one-year minimum sentence for the offence of possession of child pornography is unconstitutional….
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I assumed at first that this was a Justin Trudeau costume...
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🚨I am hearing that if elected, a CPC govt will invoke the notwithstanding clause to uphold Parliament's authority to ensure mandatory minimum sentences for child sex offences.🚨 Some background 👇
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I can't believe it. The Supreme Court ruled against one-year mandatory minimum sentences for the possession and access to child pornography. These people are predators. Disgusting scumbags who prey on children belong behind bars for the rest of their miserable lives. The
Supreme Court strikes down 1 year mandatory minimum for possession and access to child porn https://t.co/3jsXAKQQil
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Next time you hear critics of the notwithstanding clause base their entire argument on some sort of mythical infallibility of the judiciary, remember this ruling.
Supreme Court strikes down 1 year mandatory minimum for possession and access to child porn https://t.co/3jsXAKQQil
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A learned, entertaining and ultimately devastating review of a book that seems it might almost have been written to aggravate @TimONeill007… https://t.co/0xOVYu5GUk
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Alice Roberts, Domination: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity, (Simon and Schuster, 2025), 413 pp. There is no shortage of excellent books on both the end of the Roman Empire...
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Placing the Canadian Colours on Wolfe’s Monument in Westminster Abbey - Emily Warren (1919)
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Canada unlocks 26 new investments and partnerships with 9 allied countries to secure critical minerals supply chains
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If you liked my Civilization book, or even if you didn't, it is now time to pre-order my next book The Crisis of Liberalism. There, if you can stand it, you will embark upon a Dante-like theological journey into the most secret folds and hidden recesses of liberalism. From the
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I watched Mark Carney's pre- (possible) campaign video so you don't have to. My thoughts below 👇
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BREAKING: The Trump Administration has decided to strike military installations in Venezuela, with attacks possible at any moment. -Miami Herald.
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Canada’s economy shrank 0.3% in August, weak growth expected in Q3: StatCan
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Statistics Canada says real gross domestic product was down 0.3 per cent in August as both the goods and services side of the economy contracted.
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The Liberals moved their temporary resident targets again. Right now, after a decade of failure, temporary residents (and workers) make up an astounding 7% of Canada's population. Below suggests the Libs plan on continuing to issue unsustainable levels of new permits.
🚨BREAKING🚨: Is the Minister foreshadowing a major policy shift on temporary foreign residents? Now we won’t get down to 5% until 2029??? #immigration #canada #cdnpoli #policy
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This is excellent:
Have you ever wanted to become just as well-educated as a monk or nun in 8th century Northumbria? Using some evidence from the works of Alcuin of York, I put together a comprehensive reading list for what you would have learned. Check it out: https://t.co/WSRV4MRsDs
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Halloween is one of the true holidays of imagination, when children can roam, create, and explore with friends in costumes of their choice. Yet fewer kids take part each year, not only because people are having fewer children, but because screens now dominate their lives and
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Interviewed in the latest by @joliverconroy for @guardian about the proliferation of schools and institutes focused on civics, etc. 🧵
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The irony of the “tolerant progressives” calling me an “Uncle Tom” and saying I’m “kneeling at the doorstep of white supremacy” for simply expressing my point of view on O Canada says everything about where we are as a country right now.
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