Paul Tuns

A civilization falls when it stops knowing what beauty is for. When art mocks beauty, it starts to mock greatness. When ugliness becomes normal, people stop expecting nobility from buildings, from leaders, from each other, and from themselves.

A record number of over 3,800 people, including former Muslims, became Catholic at the Easter Vigil in the Archdiocese of Toronto, Canada. Image: Toronto archdiocese

c. 100 baptisms in St Dominic’s in San Francisco tonight The most in the parish’s 150 year history Up 35% on last year even (which was also a record) The faith is alive here in San Francisco and if history is anything to go by, what happens in SF, follows on to the rest of the country

I just came back from a trip to Japan. The Japanese could figure out how to provide their citizens high speed rail. There’s no reason why we can’t. Don’t let Pierre Poilievre deny Canadians high speed rail. If we need help and advice from the Japanese, let’s get it.

I see you one Canadian NDP convention w/ equity cards... ... & raise you this testimony from Alphabet folks in Massachusetts where a vote is happening to make one city a “sanctuary city for trans community.” I thought this was a skit at first. ☠️

It's nice to see some investment in our military, but shouldn't our leaders know what they're investing in?

A few yrs back, Tyler Cowen noted that Nebraska has produced Fred Astaire, Johnny Carson, James Coburn, Marlon Brando & Henry Fonda. That's a lot of high-end entertainment talent for a relatively small state.

My warm take on birthright citizenship: Wholly defensible to be against it as policy and wholly reasonable to want to reform it in some way. Also intellectually defensible to say that the 14th amendment is being misinterpreted. Doesn't mean I agree, but I don't think it's crazy either. But even if you win that argument, you still need to deal with century+ of precedent and statutory language that codifies it and has created massive reliance interests. I consider it an open question whether Congress can repeal or modify birthright citizenship. I think it is absolutely nuts and dangerous to think a president can repeal it through executive order, and defending the E.O. because you agree with the underlying policy is itself indefensible. That's it. That's my take.

Pierre Poilievre addresses Canada's collapsing birthrates and calls out multinational corporations for replacing Canadian workers with low-skilled foreign workers. "If you cannot afford a home, then you have no place to raise children." "A lot of multinational corporations have abused the immigration system in order to drive down wages."

I'm trying to find the exact moment the Liberals discovered they could just announce things, do literally nothing to fulfill the thing, and nobody would care.

Avi Lewis on CBC proposes 50 publicly owned grocery stores and regional hubs to cut prices 30–45%, claiming broad interest. But grocery margins are typically just 3–5%, making such large price reductions unlikely without major subsidies or structural changes.