by jpAdmin | Sep 27, 2023 | Essays
It is a supreme irony that the Ontario public school system, at least in its Peel District school board, should fall victim to wokeist activists of the ‘cancel culture’ persuasion, militants unrepresentative of Canadian majority opinion. Recent news reports of a...
by jpAdmin | Sep 17, 2023 | Essays
If all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, it makes Jill pretty boring, too. If truth be told, those workaholics Mr. and Mrs. Jack are tedious company, as well. So obsessed has our society become with work, usually paid work, that its antithesis, play, has become...
by jpAdmin | Sep 15, 2023 | Essays
The Russian writer, dissident, and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1917-2008) was an outspoken critic of communism in what was then called the Soviet Union, and was imprisoned in the Siberian gulag for eight years for critical comments he...
by jpAdmin | Sep 6, 2023 | Essays
https://theironist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/test.mp4 We have the great Charter of Rights and Freedoms, “the highest law in the land” we are told. This video clip (above) is almost painful to watch with its self-congratulatory tone. Ask Jordan Peterson...
by jpAdmin | Aug 28, 2023 | Essays
Stopping the Creeping Cancer under Wokeism Henry Goulburn, PC, one of the British negotiators at the Treaty of Ghent in 1814 (which ended America’s illegal attempt to seize Canada), remarked: I had no idea of the fixed determination which there is in the heart of...
by jpAdmin | Aug 21, 2023 | Essays
“It’s as clear as mud.” Since mud is not clear, the speaker cannot mean what he says. (Let us assume he is male). In fact, he means that what he has heard or read is unclear. Very unclear. He says the opposite of what he means to emphasize his difficulty in...