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Articles
Magisterial Clarity and Ambiguity
There is an old saying that the three rules of real estate are ‘location, location, location’. A similar rule applies to public speaking: ‘brevity, brevity, brevity’. And, we may also apply an analogous principle...
Nota in Brevis
Nota in Brevis November 30th
Today is the feast of Saint Andrew, Apostle, brother of Saint Peter, patron of Scotland, Russia, Ukraine and Greece, for what reason are somewhat historically obscure. Here is the Wikipedia take on the matter,...
Nota in Brevis
Nota in Brevis November 25
I am not surprised: Peter Jackson now admits that he made up the Hobbit trilogy more or less as it went along. From the very start, I was suspicious of taking a relatively small...
Articles
Reasonable Force?
We will soon learn the fate of Constable James Forcillo, the Toronto police officer currently on trial for murder, who, shortly after midnight on July 18 2013 fired nine rounds from his 9 mm...
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,...
