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Nota in Brevis
Nota in Brevis, November 20th
Masked, armed Muslims stormed the Radisson hotel in Bamako, Mali, taking 170 hostages. As I write, there is an operation underway to free them, but I suppose we should get used to this, and...
Nota in Brevis
Nota in Brevis, November 18th
There is a new craze, of all things, for adult colouring books. I know much has been written on the infantilization of our culture, the Boomers regressing to their earlier years, trying to find...
Columns
Terrorism in France: The Enemy in their Midst
The massacre in Paris yesterday marks the beginning, we may presume, of other tragedies to come. Well over one hundred dead, hundreds more injured, with a bomb going off in the Stade de France...
Nota in Brevis
Music & Beauty
The Tallis Choir is holding a choral concert, Charpentier's Midnight Mass for New France, on the evening of November 28th at the beautiful Saint Patrick's church (141 McCaul St. in Toronto, north of Dundas,...
Nota in Brevis
Trudeau & Abortion
Justin Trudeau has been elected as Canada's 23rd Prime Minister, the son of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Canada's 15th. Â I never thought I would see the day, after living through his father's disastrous ministership...
Nota in Brevis
Trudeau & Migrants
Trudeau and his Liberal majority government is following through on its plan to move 25,000 Syrian refugees (migrants?) to Canada. Â Questions abound, not just logistically, and the cost of this endeavour (on the CBC...
Editor's Corner
Captain Philips
I just took in the new American-everyman Tom Hank's movie, Captain Philips which, surprisingly from its limited quality, has made over $218 million so far, and won six Academy awards. Directed in shaky-realistic-video by...
Articles
Heroism, Then and Now
âSome men are born great, some achieve greatness, while others have greatness thrust upon themâ.  So wrote Shakespeare in Twelfth Night .
âGreatnessâ may take various forms, but I have been pondering of late the...
