Quote of the Day: “If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.” Thomas Sowell
Hey – here’s something totally new – both the Editorial and the Editorial Cartoon are criticizing Erin O’Toole. That’s something you don’t see everyday. (Just every other day…)
Good op-ed today by Jay Goldberg, interm director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Worth the two minute read.
Practically the only one or two people worth reading from the just awful Community Editorial Board is Simeon Kibaalya. I mentioned his CEB op-ed back in January. I like his writing. Today, he also has a good piece where he talks about volunteering and how this will help during and after we get through COVID-19. Good stuff. Oh course, he should have explained, instead of just stating, why “The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer”, (think government forced lockdowns…) but still – I’ll take any good column that comes out of the CEB since they are a rarity this year…
I could write for days on why the op-ed by Henry Giroux is so wrong on so many issues, but why? The only thing I will say is that he writes a lot – but says almost nothing. Every one of his conjectures in his column today is not backed my one single reference, a single article, a single citation. Why? Because it appears, that for all of his assumptions, there is very little substance.
On Page A10 today, there is an article by the Canadian Press on how retailers are running our of sports shoes. And right beneath that article is an ad for a sale on sports shoes. Too funny…
I always read and look forward to the Books page on Saturdays. But I’m not exactly sure why TheRecord doesn’t have a regular reporter or columnist who is in charge of this section. Budgets,. I guess. Deirdre Baker (who teaches Kid’s Lit at UofT) writes the main section, while Rabia Kokchar (a teacher in Toronto) writes the Children’s section. Oh good, two academics writing about books. Baker tells us that “renowned journalist and activist…” (gee, in TorStar land, aren’t these the same thing???) Naomi Klein has written a book on how to fix stuff. Nice. (Hey – ever notice that left wing writers are “renowned” while right wing writers are always “controversial”?) O.K. Whatever… And Kokchar tells us about some kid’s book that “teaches about civic action”. Notice that it doesn’t teach civics – something that is totally lacking in today’s classrooms, just civic action. Oh boy. And “At the Library” today, we have Nancy Croth from the Harper Branch of the WPL who recommends a book about: “A closeted Syrian-American trans boy…” I stopped reading after that.