Howard Anglin
@howardanglin
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“no one is obliged to take part in the spiritual crisis of a society”
Victoria, Calgary, Oxford
Joined April 2008
I like this, and other City Halls should follow suit. City Halls should just be flying its own flag, and provincial and national flags and municipal politicians in general should focus on delivering for citizens, not performative politics.
Calgary's Flag Policy means any country recognized by Canada may have their flag flown at City Hall on their national day. But national flag-raisings are now creating division. Next week, we’ll move to end national flag-raisings at City Hall to keep this a safe, welcoming space
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This makes seances seem normal and not at all creepy by comparison.
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This encapsulates it, doesn’t it? Alberta’s dissatisfaction with the mediocrity so many others tolerate is viewed as ‘uppity’.
Sheila Copps: Jean Chrétien belled the Alberta cat in a way that everyone can understand: 'They never sold as much oil as they have today and they’re complaining as if they are going bankrupt?' by @Sheila_Copps
https://t.co/2ReDvsXu0L
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Conservatism Inc would tell you the Hobbits should have gotten jobs in Sharkey's mills and factories instead of driving him out of the Shire.
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Latest column: a conversation with former CBC producer David Cayley. Timely too, given what’s going on at the CBC’s British counterpart, BBC. https://t.co/IiXMBSg24A via @nationalpost
nationalpost.com
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"Kids are resilient," they said. Yeah, they are, if you plunge them into poverty or war or God knows what else. They're amazing. But they either know how to write and do math or they don't. It doesn't just happen.
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@dw_brooke @TristinHopper Robert Weir originally wrote “thou dost in us command.” If they had to illiterately change it, why not revert to that earlier draft?
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A few years ago, I wrote for @the_lineca about why recall legislation not just antithetical to the Westminster system but a bad idea in its own right. Now Albertans can judge for themselves. https://t.co/IfOuj3paPz
Opinion: Alberta’s conservatives introduced recall. Now they’re the targets
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Our humanity is best fulfilled when we exist and live together, when we succeed in experiencing authentic, informal bonds with the people around us. If we close in on ourselves, we risk growing sick with loneliness, or even narcissism, which leads us to care for others only out
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@howardanglin Felt the same way when I visited the American cemetery in Normandy.,. The Romans, the Normans, the English Kings etc The Bayeux Tapestry is just down the road.
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In my view, the question facing Conservatives isn't whether Poilievre can get MORE popular over time, but whether they will be able to find another leader who can be AS popular. Who attracts as much intense positive appeal (even if there's a lot of intense negative appeal).
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Feudal lords didn't go to war? Tell it to those French noble houses wiped out at Agincourt or the dozens of medieval kings who died in battle.
"Feudal lords... themselves did not go to war any more than the modern feudal lords, the barons of Wall Street go to war": https://t.co/QE90hn9eYm
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What a wasted opportunity. Once again, the choice is not between building and not building, but between building good things and blah things. These buildings should last 300 years: make them worth it.
Magdalen College Oxford is replacing one of the city's uglier buildings. Without claiming the planned replacement is anything very special, the change is heartening. Two obvious improvements: the use of Cotswold limestone and a traditional plaster render, reintegrating the
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@SCP_Hughes I fear Oxford may be going the way of Bath- assuming that everything is OK as long as it has a facade of yellow stone. So we get the great square lumps of the new Jesus building on Cornmarket and this replacement for the Wayneflete- long desired, but it could be so much better!
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I wrote about this last year, in a piece for Remembrance Day. https://t.co/9QvxHp8VvW
@howardanglin It's a blow. The calibre of these man hasn't been seen since. they read Homer in the trenches where they bled out. they were supposed to govern us. the way P. S. S. died is described in the Knox book and was just wretched
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