Canada’s Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario is a premier amusement park for those who enjoy the thrill of roller coasters, water parks, family fun, unhealthy but delicious snacks, robberies, swarmings, and even the odd bird explosion. For some mysterious reason, this year’s opening of the park was fraught with “teen” violence, unruly behavior, and other generalized beatings. No one knows what’s going on. Maybe it’s the weather; maybe it’s some sort of additive they’ve put in the ice cream cones this year. Who knows? It’s all a great mystery. (more…)
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One would think that here, beyond The Wall, in the primordial snowscape that is the Great White North, we would still be revelling in wind-swept freedom and happiness, hunting caribou across the tundra all while sporting oversized, plaid shirt-jacket hybrids or shackets. Maybe at one time Canadians were like the wildings who sprang from George R. R. Martin’s degenerate noggin: living in the far north, periodically fending off White Walkers, communing with nature, and saying, “You know nothing, Justin Trudeau.” (more…)
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Andrew Lawton
The Freedom Convoy: The Inside Story of Three Weeks that Shook the World
Toronto: Sutherland House, 2022Andrew Lawton is a senior journalist with the Canadian conservative news website True North, founded by Candice Malcolm. Lawton has written a detailed account of the trucker protest that took over the streets of Canada’s federal capital, Ottawa, for three weeks in the winter of 2022. (more…)