#HowardAnglin: "Reminds me of the Duke of Wellington's brief and ineffectual stint as prime minister, when he described his Cabinet meeting as: “An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.” For what it's worth, I couldn't care less if Carney yells if he is effective, and on that the jury is very much out."
https://nitter.net/howardanglin/status/2062317233314079040#m
(Personally, I disagree with Mr. Anglin; I care about #MarkCarney's character.)
"Eighteenth century Russia, for example, was exposed to the heady distillation of Enlightenment liberalism: beards were shorn, wild Pskovian murmolkas and dazzling Bukharan chapans were banished in favour of powdered wigs and panniered gowns à la mode française, and the cognoscenti dulled their wits on Diderot. But it didn’t take. Russia remained, and remains, obstinately allergic to the allures of liberal government."
https://thehub.ca/2026/05/19/can-we-save-liberalism-from-itself/
#HowardAnglin, from a few weeks ago: "On this day in 1918, Lt. Gordon Flowerdew led the Lord Strathcona's Horse in the last cavalry charge of the Canadian Army at the Battle of Moreuil Wood, 60 miles north of Paris. Flowerdew died the next day of his wounds, and was awarded a VC. "It's a charge boys, it's a charge!"" | nitter
https://nitter.net/howardanglin/status/2038608683391910075#m
But he was corrected; this was the penultimate #cavalry charge of the Canadian army.
"[T]o get a sense of why Diefenbaker and so many others fought so hard, try to imagine a new conservative government proposing to reverse the decision, replacing the now-familiar red and white flag with the old Red Ensign or the Union Jack. The reaction today would be as angrily uncomprehending as it was for so many in 1964. The reason is obvious: a flag symbolizes a country and its people, so changing the flag implies a change in the country"
https://thehub.ca/2021/07/13/howard-anglin-bring-on-the-culture-wars/
#HowardAnglin: "I was disappointed I had to wait five minutes for a table at my local cafe today. I was disappointed they were sold out of babka buns. I was disappointed it rained on my walk home. I condemn the unjust arrest, imprisonment, and sentencing of Jimmy Lai by the thuggish PRC regime." | nitter
https://nitter.net/AnitaAnandMP/status/2020878891020124467#m
https://nitter.net/howardanglin/status/2020993385704628505#m
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#HowardAnglin: "One final thought on Carney's Davos wordfest, which occurred to me while thinking about his confused appeal to Havel (see long, earlier Tweet). For all Carney's talk about the importance of bravely "naming reality" he doesn't actually name names. He says: "The powerful have their power. But we have something too – the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality ... That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently."
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Howard Anglin (@howardanglin): "It’s the government’s job to win the support of the House, not the House’s job to prop up a government that isn’t willing to do what it takes to secure majority support. If there’s an election, it’s because the Liberals want one or they weren’t willing to do enough to avoid one." | nitter
https://nitter.net/howardanglin/status/1990187074314490105#m
"2. Byelections are volatile things that often throw up strange results, but this one was as straightforward as it gets. Despite the meddling of the long ballotters and a high-profile local conservative veteran running as an independent and directly challenging Poilievre, if not from his Right, then on more or less the same ground, the result was about as dully predictable as possible."
M. Grégoire
