Posts in World War II
What a time for the Canadian Forces to go woke

On the Richard Syrett show on Sauga 960 AM I discussed my Aristotle Foundation column in the Western Standard on the strange-looking decision to devote an entire issue of the official Canadian Military Journal to a denunciation of our crumbling armed forces as a bastion of patriarchal settler oppression.

An odd time for the Canadian Armed Forces brass to go full metal woke

In my latest Aristotle Foundation column, published in the Western Standard, I say the embrace of radical DEI ideology by Canada’s military leaders, including a notorious recent issue of Canadian Military Journal, makes sense if you put aside conspiracy theories and recognize that ideas have consequences and people believe their beliefs, including ones you don’t share.

Words Worth Noting - November 11, 2023

“I began listening more carefully to what my father had to say after the Churchill speech, for my father was clear in his own mind about where his loyalties lay. Having known persecution in Poland [he was Jewish], having served with his brothers in the British Army during the First World War, and having been a fierce patriot in his land of adoption, my father was an outspoken advocate of British freedom. ‘This is the one place where people are still free,’ he would tell me. ‘If you have to choose between giving in and fighting, fight; just remember that. Fight with everything you’ve got.’”

Jack Maurice Nissen Winning the Radar War